Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a pair of recent sexual assault lawsuits that allege he drugged and sexually assaulted the plaintiffs and/or compelled them to interact in intercourse acts with others throughout a “group-sex” celebration at Trump Lodge in midtown Manhattan.
Filed in New York state courtroom on Tuesday (Feb. 4), the lawsuits — the most recent to be lodged by Texas legal professional Tony Buzbee towards the disgraced hip-hop mogul — had been filed by Jane Doe plaintiffs who say they had been concerned within the New York hip-hop scene within the ’80s and ’90s.
The primary grievance was filed by a lady who says she was “an lively member of New York’s hip-hop trade from the Eighties onward” and “appeared in quite a few music movies for various hip hop artists, was employed as a hip hop dancer for stay productions, in addition to having roles in main movement photos.” Based on the grievance, she was topic to “sexual assault, coercion, abuse and violence both by the hands of, or course of Combs” on quite a few events.
Within the first alleged incident, the lady claims she was drugged and “compelled to take part in group sexual exercise” with Combs and others whereas attending (and being prevented from leaving) a so-called “shadow celebration” held at a New York bar someday within the Nineties.
Later within the decade, whereas allegedly relationship Combs’ safety guard, the lady says she attended one other of Combs’ events on the five-story New York nightclub Limelight, the place she says “group-sex events” had been occurring on the highest two flooring. After the celebration, she claims Combs and the safety guard took her and a pal to a penthouse at a Trump resort in midtown Manhattan, the place she says she was “bodily and sexually assaulted” by the guard as Combs watched. Later that night, she claims she and her pal had been compelled to take “ecstasy or [a] related ‘celebration’ drug” and “interact in a gaggle intercourse exercise that [they] didn’t wish to take part in.”
This alleged incident is echoed within the second lawsuit filed on Tuesday by a lady who claims she was “part of the hip-hop scene that was creating in New York Metropolis” within the ’80s and ’90s and “appeared in quite a few music movies for numerous hip-hop artists and took part in different tasks inside the trade.”
After attending a celebration additionally allegedly held on the Limelight — which reads like the identical occasion described by the primary plaintiff — the lady claims she and a pal had been taken to the Trump Lodge in midtown Manhattan towards their will, drugged “and compelled to take part in group-sex exercise throughout which she [was] sexually assaulted over the subsequent a number of hours. As an example, Plaintiff was vaginally raped by a membership promoter at Combs’ course, whereas Combs noticed.”
The lady additionally outlines a second incident she says occurred after she was employed to function a “bottle-service attendant” at a celebration Combs hosted within the Hamptons in 1997. Shortly after arriving on the occasion, the lady says she and others employed for the occasion had been inspired by Combs to drink from coolers and supplied marijuana, after which she “started to really feel woozy, slipping out and in of consciousness.” At this level, she says she was “sexually assaulted and vaginally raped by Combs’ associates, at Combs’ course, whereas Combs was current.” After suspecting the assault was videotaped, she says she reached out to Combs “to request that he delete the video, however Combs refused to conform.”
The lady additional alleges she “suffered a number of incidences of sexual assault at Combs’ fingers whereas touring to different states, together with California,” although solely the New York incidents are included within the grievance.
Each ladies are asking for compensatory and punitive damages from Combs and his numerous Combs World companies, that are named as co-defendants for “enabl[ing]” the alleged abuse.
A consultant for Combs and Combs World didn’t instantly reply to Billboard‘s request for remark.
Combs is presently awaiting the beginning of his legal trial, which is ready to begin on Could 5, on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn. He’s charged with working a legal enterprise aimed toward satisfying his want for “sexual gratification.” Amongst different accusations, Combs is alleged to have held so-called “freak offs” throughout which he and others drugged victims and coerced them into having intercourse. He’s additionally accused of acts of violence and intimidation to silence his alleged victims. Combs faces a possible life jail sentence if convicted on all fees.
