Two extra ladies have come ahead to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual abuse, one week after the music mogul settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and bodily abuse.
Both of the brand new fits had been filed Thursday on the eve of the expiration of the Adult Survivors Act, a New York regulation allowing victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil motion whatever the statute of limitations.
The filings element acts of sexual assault, beatings and compelled drugging allegedly dedicated within the early Nineteen Nineties by Combs, then a expertise director, social gathering promoter and rising determine in New York City’s hip-hop neighborhood.
One of the accusers, Joi Dickerson, mentioned she was a 19-year-old scholar at Syracuse University when she agreed to satisfy Combs at a restaurant in Harlem in 1991. After their date, Combs “intentionally drugged” her, then introduced her residence and sexually assaulted her, in accordance with the submitting.
Without her data, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with a number of mates within the music trade, the go well with alleges. The public publicity despatched Dickerson right into a “tailspin,” contributing to extreme despair that landed her within the hospital and compelled her to drop out of faculty.
In a separate lawsuit filed Thursday, an unnamed lady accused Combs and an R&B singer, Aaron Hall, of sexually assaulting her and a buddy, then beating her a number of days later.
The lady — recognized solely as Jane Doe — mentioned that she and her roommate returned to Hall’s residence with him and Combs after a music trade occasion in 1990 or 1991. The accuser mentioned she was coerced into having intercourse with Combs. Afterward, as she was getting dressed, “Hall barged into the room, pinned her down and forced Jane Doe to have sex with him,” the go well with states.
When the sufferer later spoke to her buddy, who can be not named, she realized that her buddy “had been forced to have sex with Combs and Hall in another room,” in accordance with the go well with. “Upon information and belief, when Combs finished with Jane Doe, he and Hall switched, and they commenced assaulting Jane Doe’s friend,” the go well with states.
A couple of days later, an “irate” Combs allegedly confirmed up on the residence of the 2 ladies in an try to cease them from talking out concerning the abuse. He then choked the girl recognized as Jane Doe till she handed out, the go well with states.
In an emailed assertion, a spokesperson for Combs denied the allegations, accusing the 2 ladies of in search of to use the New York regulation that briefly prolonged the statute of limitations.
An electronic mail inquiry to Hall was not returned.
Tyrone Blackburn, an lawyer for the unnamed accuser, mentioned his consumer was within the means of securing medical paperwork and witness statements to assist her go well with, which was filed late Thursday “in an effort to preserve the statute of limitations.”
The go well with introduced by Dickerson notes that the sufferer filed police stories in New York and New Jersey after the abuse. Inquiries to the New York City Police Department weren’t instantly returned. It was not clear which different jurisdictions the stories could have been filed.
After the filmed assault, Dickerson mentioned she approached mates within the music trade asking them to verify the existence of the “revenge porn” tape, however was rebuffed by those that had been “terrified that Combs would retaliate against them and that they would lose future business and music opportunities.”
The Associated Press doesn’t sometimes title individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Dickerson has accomplished.
In years after the alleged assaults, Combs, now 54, would discovered his personal label, Bad Boys Records, serving to to supply Mary J. Blige and Biggie Smalls on his strategy to changing into one of the vital influential hip-hop producers and executives within the style’s historical past.
The pair of lawsuits observe a separate set of explosive allegations made final week by Cassie Ventura, who mentioned that Combs subjected her to a sample of abuse throughout their yearslong relationship, which started in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37.
Among the allegations, Ventura mentioned Combs plied her with medication, subjected her to “savage” beatings, and compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he masturbated and filmed them. When she tried to finish the connection in 2018, Combs raped her, she alleged.
The lawsuit was settled sooner or later after it was filed for an undisclosed sum.
In an announcement shared by her legal professionals, Ventura mentioned she needed to resolve this matter “on terms that I have some level of control.”
Combs mentioned: “We have decided to resolve this matter amicably. I wish Cassie and her family all the best. Love.”
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