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\n\tA federal judge has permanently dismissed most of the $60 million racketeering and sexual assault lawsuit that former Making the Band 2<\/em> contestant Sara Rivers filed against Sean Combs<\/a> in February.<\/p>\n \n\tIn a ruling issued Thursday, U.S. District Judge Jed. S. Rakoff dismissed \u201cfinally and with prejudice\u201d 21 of the 22 causes of action in the lengthy lawsuit that alleged Combs sexually harassed Rivers and stroked her breasts during production of the hit\u00a0MTV<\/a>\u00a0reality show, which started filming in 2002. \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe judge said he was holding off on deciding the fate of the last remaining cause of action \u2013 count fifteen in the 148-page lawsuit \u2013 because he\u2019s waiting for an appeals court decision on whether the claim-revival window opened under New York City\u2019s Gender Motivated Violence Protection Act was allowed to remain open after New York\u2019s Adult Survivors Act, a statewide statute, closed its window for otherwise time-barred sexual misconduct claims.<\/p>\n \n\tIn her cause of action citing the GMVPA, Rivers alleged that Combs \u201ccornered\u201d and sexually assaulted her at his recording studio and then blackballed her in the music industry when she rebuffed his advances.<\/p>\n \n\tJudge Rackoff said he planned to issue a more detailed order in the future \u201csetting forth the reasons\u201d for his ruling. Combs and several of his co-defendants challenged the lawsuit as being beyond the statute of limitations. Several of Rivers\u2019 claims were workplace-related violations.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFrom the outset, we have said these claims were meritless, time-barred, and legally deficient. The court agreed, finding no legal basis to allow them to proceed,\u201d Comb\u2019s civil lawyer Erica Wolff said in a statement. \u201cWe are pleased the court\u00a0carefully analyzed\u00a0and swiftly dismissed\u00a0these\u00a0baseless\u00a0claims.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRivers\u2019 lawyer, Ariel Mitchell, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Known as Sara Stokes when she appeared on Making the Band 2<\/em>, Rivers was a part of the Bad Boy Records hip hop group Da Band.<\/p>\n \n\tIn her lawsuit, Rivers claimed Combs controlled her sleeping schedule, mocked her eating disorder, yelled at her, and forced her to do menial manual labor without pay. She recalled the time Combs made Rivers and her bandmates walk from Manhattan to Brooklyn just to bring him a cheesecake.\u00a0<\/p>\n