If it seems like you’ve been seeing a lot of claims of sexual assault against celebrities in the last few days, that’s because you are. New lawsuits have been filed against the likes of Jamie Foxx, Axl Rose, Cuba Gooding Jr., and P. Diddy in the last week, and most were filed in the last couple of days. There’s a particular reason for that, as the window for filing these suits is coming to a close.
The New York Adult Survivors Act was signed into law in early 2022. It gave residents who claimed to have been sexually assaulted a one year period to file their suits, even if the statute of limitations had expired. That grace period will end on November 22, 2023, so we’re seeing people who had not previously filed all doing so at once.
