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."

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team is going on the offensive with a new motion that seeks to dismiss one of the three federal charges against him, claiming that the charges are racially motivated and that “no white person has ever been the target of a remotely similar prosecution” under the Mann Act.