Be aware: This text incorporates references to alleged sexual assault that some readers could discover disturbing.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by a lady alleging that he repeatedly drugged and sexually assaulted her, one time resulting in her impregnation and eventual miscarriage. It’s the newest in a virtually yearlong string of lawsuits and legal expenses towards Diddy, who’s presently incarcerated on federal expenses—the final lawsuit got here earlier this week.
Paperwork filed right this moment in New York’s Supreme Courtroom, and seen by Pitchfork, allege that Diddy coerced, harassed, drugged, and assaulted the plaintiff, recognized as Jane Doe, on a number of events over the course of 4 years. She says she met Diddy abroad, within the autumn of 2020, after he provided to cowl her journey to and from the vacation spot. He continued to rearrange journey for a variety of subsequent conferences, although the lawsuit alleges that Combs would ship drivers earlier than she had agreed to journey. “[Diddy], and his brokers and workers, would use coercive and harassing language to compel her to conform,” the lawsuit alleges.
In April 2022, the lawsuit claims, Diddy “compelled Jane Doe to have vaginal intercourse with out her consent” at his house. The identical spring, the girl says she awakened one morning with bruises and chunk marks on her toes, not figuring out how they obtained there. The lawsuit describes a number of events on which she was “compelled to ingest an unknown substance,” one in every of which turned out to be ketamine, inflicting her to black out and intermittently lose consciousness all through the night time. She says she obtained a constructive consequence for a being pregnant take a look at quickly after, and a Diddy affiliate allegedly referred to as her repeatedly to inform her to have an abortion. Doe in the end suffered a miscarriage, in accordance with the grievance.
Doe says that she didn’t converse with Diddy or his staff “for about three months” after the alleged miscarriage, however she resumed communication with him in late 2022, at which level he “started compelling her to journey with him and to him” and harassing her “via calls, texts and third events till she complied.”
“At each go to, [Diddy] 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 contends. “This continued till July of 2024.” Additional, Doe alleges that Diddy “and his brokers at his request would file sexual encounters with [her] with out her permission.”
Jane Doe is suing Diddy for sexual assault and sexual harassment, assault, sexual battery, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional misery, a violation of New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act, and extra. She explains that she is suing Diddy below a pseudonym as a result of the musician “has brought on [her] to worry for her security.”
Jane Doe is being represented by attorneys Joseph L. Ciaccio and Marie Napoli. The latter lawyer stated in an announcement to Pitchfork, “Highly effective figures within the leisure trade have lengthy exploited aspiring artists and followers. Latest high-profile lawsuits intention to carry these celebrities accountable, probably reworking trade practices and offering justice for victims. Nobody is above the legislation. Fame and wealth don’t defend Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from severe allegations of intercourse trafficking and abuse.”
Pitchfork has additionally reached out to representatives for Sean “Diddy” Combs for remark.
If you happen to or somebody you recognize has been affected by sexual assault, we encourage you to succeed in out for assist:
RAINN Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline
https://rainn.org
1 800 656 HOPE (4673)
Disaster Textual content Line
SMS: Textual content “HELLO” or “HOLA” to 741-741
