Sean “Diddy” Combs attends the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on May 15, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AXELLE/BAUER-GRIFFIN/FILMMAGIC
Embattled music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a 22-year-old aspiring mannequin after assembly her at a New York restaurant and luring her again to his music studio with the promise of serving to her profession, a brand new lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court docket in Manhattan claims.
The new lawsuit — the sixth grievance for sexual assault filed in opposition to Combs in six months — alleges Combs met plaintiff Crystal McKinney in 2003 after an unidentified designer invited her to a dinner at Cipriani Downtown throughout Men’s Fashion Week. According to the lawsuit, the male designer fastidiously crafted McKinney’s look to please Combs after which ordered her to take a seat straight throughout from Combs on the desk.
“Once seated, Combs made a very public display of coming on to plaintiff in a sexually suggestive manner which continued throughout the dinner,” the filings states. “Throughout their interactions, Combs was flirtatious, bordering on leering, as he leaned across the table towards her. Combs also plied Plaintiff with alcohol throughout the dinner as he repeatedly refilled her glass with wine.”
The lawsuit alleges Combs invited McKinney again to his Manhattan recording studio, and she or he believed it was secure to affix him there as a result of it was knowledgeable setting versus a private residence. She claims Combs handed her a joint that she believes was laced with a narcotic after which led her to a rest room as she felt more and more intoxicated, like “she was floating.”
“In the bathroom, Combs forced himself on plaintiff and began kissing her without her consent,” the lawsuit claims. “Combs, then, shoved her head down to his crotch before commanding her to ‘suck it.’ Plaintiff refused, but Combs pushed her head down onto his phallus and forced her to perform oral sex on him.”
In the submitting, McKinney says the assault made her “physically sick” and that she handed out a short while later. She awoke “in shock to find herself in a taxicab heading back to the designer’s apartment,” the paperwork provides.
Reps for Combs didn’t instantly reply to Rolling Stone‘s request for comment. The new lawsuit arrives after Combs’ former companion Casandra “Cassie” Ventura first sued him for intercourse trafficking and rape in November. Two more women, Liza Gardner and Joi Dickerson-Neal, sued Combs per week after Ventura’s submitting, alleging the music mogul raped them 1990 and 1991 respectively. A fourth woman sued Combs in early December, alleging he lured her to his studio when she was 17 years previous and gang raped her with two different males. Music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones sued Combs in February with allegations Combs sexually harassed and assaulted him throughout his time engaged on Combs’ newest album.
Combs, 54, issued a blanket denial of the allegations from the 4 ladies, together with Ventura, in December. He later dismissed Jones’ grievance as a “work of fiction.”
Last week, CNN obtained and aired a harrowing video displaying Combs beating Ventura in the hallway of Los Angeles’ InterContinental Hotel in 2016. In the surveillance video, Combs was seen yanking Ventura backwards to the ground, kicking her, stomping on her, and making an attempt to pull her again to a room.
Combs responded to the video on Sunday, apologizing for the resort incident in a video posted on his social media. “It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life, but sometimes you gotta do that,” Combs said in the apology video. “I was fucked up, I mean I hit rock bottom, and I make no excuses. My behavior on that video is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my actions in that video. I’m disgusted. I was disgusted then when I did it, and I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out professional help. Had to go into therapy, go into rehab, had to ask God for his mercy and grace. I’m so sorry, but I’m committed to being a better man each and every day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m truly sorry.”
McKinney’s grievance names Combs, Bad Boy Records, Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John Clothing, and Universal Music as defendants and says her decades-old declare is viable below New York City’s Gender Motivated Violence Act, which revives claims in opposition to any social gathering who “commits, directs, enables, participates in or conspires in the commission of a crime of violence motivated by gender.”
The new lawsuit says sexual assault is an act of gender motivated violence, and that McKinney was “humiliated and traumatized” by the bodily assault. She alleges she was “blackballed” in her trade and tipped right into a “tailspin of anxiety and depression.”
McKinney says in her grievance that she was moved to step ahead when she noticed information protection of the lawsuits from Ventura, Dickerson-Neal, and the others. “She knew she had a moral obligation to speak up,” her submitting states. “Plaintiff seeks justice for herself and for any of the other Combs victims.”
From Rolling Stone US.