Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with new sexual assault allegations Friday as a girl filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged on the music mogul’s properties and have become pregnant after one of many encounters.
It’s the most recent of a number of related lawsuits by ladies towards Combs, who additionally was arrested final week on a federal intercourse trafficking indictment.
The lawsuit was filed towards Combs, his firms and a number of other associates and seeks undisclosed damages for bodily accidents, extreme emotional misery, humiliation, nervousness and different harms. A lawyer for Combs, his firm and one in every of his representatives didn’t instantly return emails looking for remark Friday.
The girl within the newest lawsuit, recognized by the pseudonym Jane Doe, accuses Combs of sexually assaulting her whereas she was unconscious from medication, and it alleges Combs and his acquaintances recorded sexual encounters with out her permission. She says that she met Combs abroad in fall 2020 and that the assaults and harassment continued by July this 12 months.
Doe says she usually was coerced and harassed into touring to Combs’ properties in New York, Los Angeles and Miami and different cities, together with month-to-month in 2021 and 2022.
“At each go to, (Combs) would make her ‘carry out a present’ for him and would ply her with alcohol and substances till she handed out — she would get up with bruising and accidents however with no recollection of how she sustained her accidents,” the lawsuit says.
In a July 2022 encounter with Combs at his Los Angeles dwelling, the lady alleges within the lawsuit, she was compelled to ingest medication she believes included ketamine and blacked out. She later took a being pregnant take a look at and instructed Combs it was constructive, she says. A Combs affiliate repeatedly demanded she get an abortion, and he or she had a miscarriage, she asserts.
This previous July, Doe says, Combs “commanded” her to go to his dwelling in Miami, the place she alleges Combs shoved two tablets in her mouth. She says that the following morning, she felt in poor health and confused and couldn’t keep in mind what had occurred the evening earlier than, and that the bed room was in disarray.
Doe, being represented by attorneys Marie Napoli and Joseph Ciaccio, additionally alleges Combs and his associates tracked her location and monitored her conversations. She says Combs discouraged her from working and gave her an “allowance” that he used to regulate her.
“Highly effective figures within the leisure trade have lengthy exploited aspiring artists and followers,” Napoli stated in a press release. “Latest high-profile lawsuits goal to carry these celebrities accountable, probably reworking trade practices and offering justice for victims. Nobody is above the regulation. Fame and wealth don’t defend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from critical allegations of intercourse trafficking and abuse.”
On Tuesday, one other girl sued Combs, alleging that the music mogul and his head of safety raped her and recorded it on video at his New York recording studio in 2001.
Combs stays jailed with out bail in New York on the federal fees alleging he ran an unlimited community that facilitated sexual crimes and dedicated stunning acts of violence, utilizing blackmail and different techniques to guard Combs and people near him.
He pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. His lawyer stated he’s harmless and can struggle to clear his title.
Earlier this month, Combs admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a resort hallway in 2016 and apologized after CNN launched video of the assault.
Combs, 54, is likely one of the best-known music executives, producers and performers throughout hip-hop, having gained three Grammys and labored with artists similar to Infamous B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Religion Evans and 112. He based Unhealthy Boy Information in 1993, the influential style line Sean John, a vodka model and the Revolt TV community. He bought off his stake within the latter firm in June of this 12 months.
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