The music mogul’s lawyers filed a motion to dismiss a sex-trafficking charge, saying that the law involved has “racist origins.”

Sean Combs' legal team filed a motion casting the prosecution under the Mann Act as racist — something prosecutors have denied in previous hearings.

Mr. Combs has been singled out because he is a powerful black man, and he is being prosecuted for conduct that regularly goes unpunished,” declares a Tuesday filing by the incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs to toss out the government’s claim the Bad Boy Records founder violated the Mann Act,

Sean Combs' attorneys filed a motion to dismiss one count of transportation to engage in prostitution, claiming that the law cited has "racist origins."