Diddy has called in the legal big guns for his current sexual assault case, hiring Bobbi Sternheim to replace New York City attorney Jonathan Davis to represent him in court.
According to court documents obtained by HipHopDX, Sternheim filed her Notice of Appearance with the Southern District of New York on Thursday (February 15). Sternheim, a former president of the New York Women’s Bar Association, previously made headlines for defending Ghislaine Maxwell, the infamous associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein, in her sex trafficking case.
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According to the New York Post, Sternheim also previously represented Osama bin Laden’s henchman, Khaled al-Fawwaz, in his 2015 trial over the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa that killed more than 200 people.
HipHopDX has reached out to reps for Diddy for comment. You can check out the filing below.
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Filed in November by a woman known only as “Jane Doe,” this is Diddy’s fourth sexual assault lawsuit made against him which accuses the embattled mogul, and Diddy’s former Bad Boy president Harve Pierre, of raping the accuser back in 2003.
HipHopDX viewed the court documents which alleged that Ms. Doe met Pierre and the third assailant at a Detroit lounge. After speaking on the phone with Diddy, the three allegedly flew to his NYC studio on a private plane later that night.
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Upon Doe’s arrival, the junior in high school claims she was plied with drugs and alcohol and raped by Diddy, the unnamed man, and Pierre in order. When the three were done, she claims she was left in the bathroom in “fetal position.”
After regaining her composure, she alleges she was escorted to a car and flown back to Michigan. While the accusations are two decades later, Ms. Doe supplied photos from that night in the studio sitting on Diddy’s lap. However, her face is blurred out for anonymity purposes.
What’s more, a judge has still not yet ruled on a filing made by Diddy’s old attorney back in January, which attempts to keep Diddy’s accuser’s identity private to protect her “public facing identity.”
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Per the January filing, an unspecified legal brief that had just been filed needs to be redacted, or identifying details about Diddy’s latest accuser could be made public, and it will then become obvious as to her identity.
“The Opposition Brief does not reveal Plaintiff’s name, but it does refer to certain facts about Plaintiff that the Combs Defendants have learned because her identity was disclosed by Plaintiff’s counsel,” he wrote in part. “Plaintiff has a public-facing identity that could be potentially determined from the content of the brief.”
