Sean “Diddy” Combs accused of drugging, sexual assaulting mannequin in 2003

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ troubles continued Tuesday as a lawsuit filed in New York federal court docket accused the hip-hop mogul of drugging and sexually assaulting a mannequin in 2003. 

The lawsuit was filed by Crystal McKinney beneath the NYC Gender Motivated Violence Act, which permits victims of violence dedicated on the premise of gender within the metropolis to sue their abusers, no matter when the abuse happened. The window for submitting lawsuits beneath that act expires in 2025.

McKinney can be suing Combs’ file label, Unhealthy Boy Leisure, his label’s distributor, Common Music Group, and Combs’ trend model, Sean John Clothes.

In response to the swimsuit, then 22-year-old McKinney, who was a rising trend mannequin, was launched to Combs by an unnamed clothier in 2003. The swimsuit alleges the designer dressed and styled McKinney “to make sure Combs discovered her engaging” earlier than taking her to satisfy Combs at Cipriani Downtown, a New York Metropolis restaurant. 

In response to the lawsuit, Combs made quite a few flirtatious and sexually suggestive remarks about McKinney’s look in entrance of the opposite dinner visitors, together with the designer. Later that night time, Combs allegedly invited McKinney to his recording studio, the place he was ingesting alcohol and smoking marijuana with a number of male companions, the lawsuit states. 

The lawsuit says that Comb handed McKinney a joint, saying, “You have by no means had weed like this earlier than,” which McKinney interpreted to imply the marijuana was laced with another drug. 

“Though plaintiff insisted that she had sufficient after that, Combs pressured her to imbibe extra alcohol and marijuana by telling her that she was performing too uptight,” the lawsuit reads.

After McKinney turned “very intoxicated,” the lawsuit claims, Combs led her into the toilet and compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on him. Afterward, she alleges she misplaced consciousness and wakened in a cab.

CBS Information has reached out to Combs’ representatives for remark. Common Music Group declined to remark “pending attorneys’ evaluation of the lawsuit.”

McKinney claims her modeling alternatives disappeared after the alleged incident as a result of Combs had her “‘blackballed’ within the trade and utilized his vital affect to impede [her] profession progress.” In response to the swimsuit, within the years following the alleged incident, McKinney turned anxious, depressed and hooked on medicine and alcohol, and she or he tried suicide round 2004. 

The lawsuit comes on the heels of a safety video aired by CNN on Friday that allegedly reveals Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles lodge hallway in 2016. Combs on Sunday publicly apologized for the incident, saying his conduct was “inexcusable,” and that he takes “full duty” for his actions. 

Earlier this month, Combs requested a federal choose to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two co-defendants raped a 17-year-old lady in a New York recording studio in 2003, saying it was a “false and hideous declare” that was filed too late beneath the regulation.

In March, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami have been raided by Homeland Safety Investigations brokers and different regulation enforcement officers attributable to a attainable ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation, U.S. officers mentioned on the time. 

Different accusations in opposition to the music mogul embody these made by two ladies in November final 12 months, one week after he settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and bodily abuse. The ladies’s lawsuits have been filed on the eve of the expiration of the Grownup Survivors Act, a New York regulation allowing victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil motion whatever the statute of limitations.

In February, a male music producer additionally filed a federal lawsuit in opposition to Combs accusing him of sexual misconduct.