A fourth lady has publicly accused music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, alleging he and others gang-raped her when she was 17, in line with a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The submitting says Combs — an artist and producer also referred to as Puff Daddy — met the unnamed lady in 2003 after his affiliate Harve Pierre singled her out at a lounge in Detroit and satisfied her to take a non-public jet to New York to satisfy the rapper.
Prior to taking the flight, Pierre pressured the then 17-year-old to carry out oral intercourse on him earlier than taking her throughout state traces to Combs’ studio.
There, the group of males together with Combs plied her with medication and alcohol earlier than violently raping her repeatedly, the civil swimsuit filed in a federal courtroom in New York alleges.
Her lawyer Douglas Wigdor — who additionally represented R&B singer Cassie, the primary lady to publicly come ahead towards Combs — mentioned that “the depravity of these abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our client for life.”
It is the fourth lawsuit leveled towards Combs alleging comparable abuse and rape.
The first, from Cassie, was settled two days after it was filed underneath the New York Adult Survivors Act, a legislation that opened a one-year window for sexual assault claims to be filed that in any other case occurred too way back to litigate.
Combs has vehemently denied all accusations towards him. His lawyer didn’t instantly reply to an AFP request for touch upon Wednesday’s submitting.
Following Cassie’s lawsuit, plaintiff Joi Dickerson-Neal alleged she had been “drugged, sexually assaulted and abused” in 1992 by the rapper and that he had filmed and distributed the acts as “revenge porn.”
Another grievance filed anonymously accuses Combs and music collaborator Aaron Hall of raping her.
In current weeks, a further lawsuit accused Pierre of abusing his place atop Combs’ label to groom and sexually assault his former assistant. The swimsuit says Combs’ firm, Bad Boy Entertainment, seemed the opposite approach.
Combs, 54, based Bad Boy in 1993, and was a serious determine in hip-hop’s commercialization over the course of the a long time that adopted. His proteges included the late Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige.
He is amongst hip-hop’s billionaires, not least as a consequence of his ventures within the liquor business.
The current lawsuits towards him describe Combs as a violent man who used his superstar to prey on and intimidate ladies.
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