According to lawsuit, ‘Plaintiff was held down by Celebrity A who vaginally raped her while Combs and Celebrity B, a female, watched’
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a new wave of lawsuits, with one alleged victim claiming that he drugged and raped her when she was 13 years old as an unnamed “male celebrity” and “female celebrity” participated.
The new claims were filed by Tony Buzbee’s Buzbee Law Firm, which announced earlier this month it is filing 120 lawsuits against Combs, who has been in federal custody since his Sept. 16 arrest at a Manhattan hotel after police charged him with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.
The woman says that she was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement and given a drink that made her “feel woozy and lightheaded.”
“Looking for a place to rest, Plaintiff entered what she believed to be an empty bedroom so she could lie down for a moment,” reads the lawsuit.
She alleges that Combs entered the room with “a male and female celebrity” and “aggressively approached Plaintiff with a crazed look in his eyes, grabbed her, and said, ‘You are ready to party!’”
Combs then threw the girl toward another male celebrity, who is referred to in the lawsuit as “Celebrity A.”
“Plaintiff was held down by Celebrity A who vaginally raped her while Combs and Celebrity B, a female, watched. After the male celebrity finished, Combs then vaginally raped Plaintiff while the Celebrity A and Celebrity B watched. Combs attempted to force Plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, but she resisted by hitting Combs in the neck; he stopped,” the lawsuit adds.
After the alleged assault, the woman says she “fell into a deep depression which continues to affect every facet of her life.”
Some of the victims allege that Combs used his position in the music industry and dangled promises of fame as a way to convince them to attend drug-fuelled parties that led to their assaults.
One accuser, who was a minor at the time, says that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 at a party in 1998. The man, who now lives in North Carolina, alleges that Combs told him he had “the look” of a star and then abruptly ordered the then-teen to drop his pants.
“Don’t you want to break into the business?” the man claims Combs asked him.
Another woman in California claimed that Combs “violently gang raped” her as retribution after she said he was involved with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder.
According to a federal criminal indictment, Combs was described as the “head of a criminal enterprise” and is accused of using his “power and prestige” to induce victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs” that the rapper arranged, participated in and often recorded on video. The events would sometimes last days and Combs and victims would often receive IV fluids to recover, the indictment said.
After raiding his homes in California and Florida earlier this year, authorities uncovered drugs, guns with defaced serial numbers, and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”
Some of the abuse claims alleged by police mirror accusations Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie Ventura made against the three-time Grammy winner last fall.
Following his arrest last month, Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, has been besieged with sexual assault allegations as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the Bad Boy Records founder’s homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters.
Another woman named Thalia Graves has alleged that Combs and his head of security raped her in the summer of 2001 at a recording studio in New York City.
Dawn Richard, a member of the girl group Danity Kane, also accused him of psychological and physical abuse, including groping.
“The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” said , one of the lead attorneys, at a Houston news conference. “The wall of silence has now been broken.”
Of the 120 purported victims, 25 were minors at the time the alleged assaults. One individual alleged he was nine years old when he was abused, Buzbee said.