Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean ”Diddy” Combs arrives on the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Might 15, 2022.
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Music mogul and entrepreneur Sean ”Diddy” Combs arrives on the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas on Might 15, 2022.
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NEW YORK — 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.
Each of the brand new fits have been filed Thursday on the eve of the expiration of the Grownup Survivors Act, a New York legislation 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 Nineties by Combs, then a expertise director, social gathering promoter and rising determine in New York Metropolis’s hip-hop group.
One of many accusers, Joi Dickerson, stated she was a 19-year-old pupil at Syracuse College when she agreed to satisfy Combs at a restaurant in Harlem in 1991. After their date, Combs ”deliberately drugged” her, then introduced her house and sexually assaulted her, in accordance with the submitting.
With out her information, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with a number of associates within the music trade, the swimsuit alleges. The general public publicity despatched Dickerson right into a ”tailspin,” contributing to extreme melancholy that landed her within the hospital and compelled her to drop out of school.
In a separate lawsuit filed Thursday, an unnamed lady accused Combs and an R&B singer, Aaron Corridor, of sexually assaulting her and a buddy, then beating her a number of days later.
The girl — recognized solely as Jane Doe — stated that she and her roommate returned to Corridor’s house with him and Combs after a music trade occasion in 1990 or 1991. The accuser stated she was coerced into having intercourse with Combs. Afterward, as she was getting dressed, ”Corridor barged into the room, pinned her down and compelled Jane Doe to have intercourse with him,” the swimsuit states.
When the sufferer later spoke to her buddy, who can also be not named, she realized that her buddy ”had been pressured to have intercourse with Combs and Corridor in one other room,” in accordance with the swimsuit. ”Upon data and perception, when Combs completed with Jane Doe, he and Corridor switched, they usually commenced assaulting Jane Doe’s buddy,” the swimsuit states.
A couple of days later, an ”irate” Combs allegedly confirmed up on the house 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 swimsuit states.
In an emailed assertion, a spokesperson for Combs denied the allegations, accusing the 2 ladies of in search of to take advantage of the New York legislation that briefly prolonged the statute of limitations.
An e-mail inquiry to Corridor was not returned.
Tyrone Blackburn, an legal professional for the unnamed accuser, stated his consumer was within the means of securing medical paperwork and witness statements to help her swimsuit, which was filed late Thursday ”in an effort to protect the statute of limitations.”
The swimsuit introduced by Dickerson notes that the sufferer filed police experiences in New York and New Jersey after the abuse. Inquiries to the New York Metropolis Police Division weren’t instantly returned. It was not clear which different jurisdictions the experiences might have been filed.
After the filmed assault, Dickerson stated she approached associates within the music trade asking them to verify the existence of the ”revenge porn” tape, however was rebuffed by those that have been ”terrified that Combs would retaliate towards them and that they might lose future enterprise and music alternatives.”
The Related Press doesn’t sometimes identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Dickerson has achieved.
In years after the alleged assaults, Combs, now 54, would discovered his personal label, Unhealthy Boys Data, serving to to supply Mary J. Blige and Biggie Smalls on his method to turning into one of the crucial 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 stated 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 many allegations, Ventura stated 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 someday after it was filed for an undisclosed sum.
In a press release shared by her attorneys, Ventura stated she needed to resolve this matter ”on phrases that I’ve some stage of management.”
Combs stated: ”We now have determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the perfect. Love.”