New lawsuit: Former model accuses Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault

NEW YORK (AP) — A former mannequin accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her at his New York Metropolis recording studio in 2003 in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the most recent in a collection of allegations towards the embattled hip-hop mogul.

Crystal McKinney mentioned she was a profitable 22-year-old mannequin when she met Combs at a restaurant throughout Males’s Trend Week in Manhattan. Combs invited her to his recording studio later that night time, in line with the federal criticism filed in New York Metropolis.

The lawsuit alleges that McKinney arrived to seek out Combs consuming and smoking joints with a number of different males. She smoked some marijuana, which she “later got here to grasp” was laced with a narcotic or intoxicating substance, the lawsuit says. She felt as if she was floating. Combs led her to the lavatory, the place the sexual assault befell, in line with the lawsuit.

Combs led her again to the studio and she or he misplaced consciousness, the lawsuit says. She later woke up in a taxi and realized that she had been sexually assaulted, in line with the lawsuit.

Combs’ representatives didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail searching for remark.

The Related Press doesn’t usually title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as McKinney has carried out.

The lawsuit was filed days after CNN aired safety video that exhibits Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles lodge hallway in 2016. Combs on Sunday launched a video admitting he attacked Cassie within the lodge hallway, saying he was “actually sorry” and his actions have been “inexcusable.”

Combs is just not in peril of being criminally prosecuted for the beating due to the statute of limitations.

A lawsuit filed by Cassie in November alleging beatings and abuse was settled a day after it was filed. Nevertheless it spurred intense scrutiny of Combs, with a number of extra lawsuits filed within the following months, together with a federal legal sex-trafficking investigation that led authorities to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.

The declare on Tuesday was filed beneath a New York Metropolis regulation that enables accusers to file civil litigation throughout a restricted window even when the occasions allegedly occurred way back.