A twelfth person has come forward to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, claiming the Bad Boy Entertainment founder flew her to his various homes and would “consistently pressure” her to bring other men and women into the bedroom despite her protests, according to court papers obtained by Rolling Stone.
A Florida entrepreneur and model, who is suing under a Jane Doe pseudonym, claims that she first met Combs overseas while traveling in fall of 2020, which led to an ongoing relationship that ended in July of this year. The woman filed suit in New York on Thursday, suing Combs under New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act. Her lawsuit comes nearly two weeks after Combs was arrested and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and interstate transportation for prostitution.
Over the course of four years, the woman claims that Combs and his associates would book her travel to and from the mogul’s homes in Los Angeles, Miami, New York and other cities, the employees allegedly using “coercive and harassing language to compel her to comply.” Each visit, Combs “would make her ‘perform a show’ for him and would ply her with alcohol and substances until she passed out— she would wake up with bruising and injuries but with no recollection of how she sustained her injuries,” the lawsuit claims.
The woman says she grew fearful of Combs, who allegedly tracked her location, recorded their sexual encounters and insisted on making the woman financially dependent on him. “To date, Combs continues to contact the Jane Doe in attempts to control her actions, autonomy and would restrict her speech through harassment, intimidation, and other tactics,” her lawsuit adds. (Rolling Stone has reached out to Combs for comment.)
The woman claims that she was traveling to visit Combs once a month during 2021 and 2022. During some of these visits, the woman claims that she was drugged with alcohol and unknown substances.
At Combs’ Miami compound in spring 2022, the woman awoke to find her feet purple and bruised, with a bite mark on her heel, according to the lawsuit. The woman says she had no recollection on how she sustained the injuries. Later that year in Los Angeles, the woman claims she was forced to ingest ketamine, which caused her to “black out” and sporadically lose consciousness throughout the night.
It was after taking ketamine that the woman claimed that she discovered she was pregnant. Combs’ then-partner rapper Yung Miami — real name Caresha Brownlee — allegedly “harassed” and pressured the woman to have an abortion. (Rolling Stone has reached out to Brownlee for comment.) The woman says she miscarried and did not speak to Combs for three months.
During her last physical encounter with Combs, the woman says Combs “shoved two pills’ in her mouth after arriving to his Miami house. The next morning, the woman claims she felt sick with the bedroom in disarray and she couldn’t remember what occurred the previous night.
The woman is suing Combs for sexual assault and harassment, sexual battery, negligent and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and unlawful surveillance for allegedly monitoring her phone, among other claims.
The Jane Doe’s lawsuit comes the same week Thalia Graves sued Combs and his former bodyguard for allegedly drugging and raping her at Daddy’s House recording studio in 2001. The men allegedly recorded the assault and went on to share – and sell – a recording of the video, her lawsuit claims. (The bodyguard denied the claims to Rolling Stone.)
This is the latest civil lawsuit against Combs, who has been sued for allegedly sexually abusing at least seven others since Ventura filed her graphic sex-trafficking complaint against him last November. Combs settled with Ventura for an undisclosed sum within 24 hours, but her 35-page complaint became the roadmap for the music mogul’s criminal prosecution and inspired others to file claims as well.
On Thanksgiving, the day New York’s Adult Survivors Act was set to expire, two more women sued with similarly disturbing claims against Combs. Joi Dickerson-Neal alleged Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a Syracuse University student in 1991. In a claim similar to Graves’ complaint, she alleged Combs filmed the incident and showed the video to others. Through a rep, Combs denied the allegation, calling the lawsuit a “money grab.”
Hours after Dickerson-Neal’s lawsuit grabbed headlines, Liza Gardner alleged Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her following an MCA Records event in 1990. Gardner says she was 16 years old at the time and that Combs turned “irate and began assaulting and choking” her until she almost “passed out” during a confrontation a day later. Combs and his lawyers denied Gardner’s allegations as well, calling them “fabricated.”
In early December, a fourth accuser alleged Combs, former Bad Boy president Harve Pierre, and a third man gang raped her at Combs’ New York recording studio in 2003 when she was 17 years old. In late February, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a lawsuit accusing Combs of sexual assault, harassment, and not compensating him for work on the Grammy-nominated The Love Album.
After federal agents raided Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami Beach were in March, more women stepped forward with lawsuits alleging violent sexual assaults.
Model Crystal McKinney filed a lawsuit on May 21 alleging Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her after she attended a Sean John fashion show on the arm of designer Roberto Cavalli in February 2003. McKinney claimed Combs pressured her to take a hit off a laced joint, led her into a bathroom and forced her to perform oral sex.
On May 24, April Lampros filed a lawsuit alleging she was a student and intern at Arista Records when she began an on-off relationship with Combs in early 1994. She claims Combs sexually assaulted her on three occasions over the course of their four-year relationship and once more in early 2001. Like Graves and Dickerson-Neal, she alleges Combs recorded a sex tape of her and showed it to multiple people in 1997.
Earlier this month, former Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money member Dawn Richard claimed Combs sexually harassed and assaulted her, and through a “pattern of coercive threats and displays of brutal violence,” caused her to “engage in commercial sex acts.”
