Judge grants extension in Orinda gang-rape allegations against Sean 'Diddy' Combs

ORINDA, Calif. - A federal judge has granted a request to extend the timeline to serve Sean "Diddy" Combs with a lawsuit alleging that he and his entourage gang-raped a woman in Orinda after the woman's lawyer said she had uncovered "new facts" that require her to investigate and amend her complaint. 

U.S. District Court Judge of Northern California Rita Lin granted the motion on Thursday, extending the deadline to file by March 7.

Originally, Lin told the woman's attorney, Ariel Mitchell, that she would dismiss the case entirely if she didn't serve Combs by Feb. 14 – a month after she first filed the original complaint from her client, Ashley Parham.

But in Mitchell's request to the judge, she said it's taking her longer than she thought to determine the "veracity" of new allegations against Combs. Mitchell also said that Combs is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, where he awaits criminal sex trafficking charges, and she has not been able to reach the entertainer's attorneys. 

Combs has pleaded not guilty. 

In addition, Combs is facing at least 20 sexual abuse lawsuits all over the country, including from Parham, who alleged that Combs and his entourage raped her in Orinda, including inserting a TV remote inside her vagina, as payback for her mentioning that he might have been involved in Tupac's murder years ago.

Diddy does not face criminal allegations stemming from Parham's case, which she said occurred on March 23, 2018.

KTVU does not typically name survivors of sexual assault, but her name is public in a lawsuit and Mitchell said she only files cases when the women's names are public. 

Contra Costa County Sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said deputies took a report on that date but it was later determined "the claims were unfounded."