University student says Sean Combs raped her in new lawsuit
Explosive sexual assault lawsuits by five more people have been lodged against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, including from a former teen uni student and two men.
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Accused sex-trafficking rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a fresh wave of explosive lawsuits by five more people, including three men and a woman who was 16 when allegedly attacked.
The New York Post reports that the new cases, all filed by anonymous plaintiffs in Manhattan federal court, describe attacks by the 54-year-old former music mogul between 1995 through 2021 — including one in a stockroom at Macy’s flagship department store, court documents show.
One woman says in her suit that she was a 19-year-old college freshman in Brooklyn when she was invited to a photo shoot in 2004 promoting a group that Combs’ label had signed.
The then-teen attended the event with a female friend — also a freshman — and the pair was later invited by Combs’ to his hotel “for a more exclusive party,” the court papers claim.
Once at Combs’ hotel suite, the college students were whisked to another room by a security guard, who locked them in before saying, “You know what you are here for,” the filing says.
He then forced himself on the plaintiff and “fondled, molested and ultimately raped” her “all while she was begging him to stop,” the suit says.
The friend slipped out of the room when the security guard opened the door, and the plaintiff was able to escape once Combs left, the suit says.
In another suit, a man was working as an adviser for clothing brand Ecko Clothing when he ran into Combs and three of his bodyguards inside the Macy’s stockroom in May 2008, according to his suit.
Combs was running his competing clothing brand Sean John at the time, the suit says.
The suit alleges the victim was hit in the head, possibly with a pistol, and knocked onto his hands and knees as the group made threats such as, “I’ll kill you,” court papers allege.
Combs told the victim, “S**k my d**k, Ecko”.
The rap mogul then allegedly orally raped him while grabbing his hair and saying, “You like that, white boy?” the suit charges.
Afterwards, the Bad Boy Records founder threatened, “Shut up, or I’ll kill you,” the filing claims.
The man reported the incident to Macy’s security, but no one ever followed up with him, and he was barred from the Herald Square location in the future, his suit says.
Three weeks later, Macy’s CEO Terry Lundgren “pressured Ecko executives to fire the plaintiff because Macy’s had just signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Sean John clothing,” the suit claims.
To this day, the man still “fears for his life,” the suit claims.
Meanwhile, another plaintiff who worked for Royal Reigns Management says he was invited to one of Combs’ parties in October 2021 in New York City attended by “several well-known artists,” court papers show.
The man was offered ecstasy by one of Combs’ associates, which he turned down. He then had a single drink, but “the effects of the drink were immediate and overwhelming,” the suit claims.
The man became disoriented then said he remembers being in a bedroom and feeling paralysed while “multiple men began to sexually assault him through sodomy and other forced acts,” the filing alleges.
“He distinctly recalls seeing Combs above him, naked, at one point during the assault,” and at least three men raped him, the suit claims.
The suit also includes a photo of a plastic device that Combs and his associates allegedly used to put the sedative GHB into drinks.
The plaintiffs are all seeking unspecified damages and join around 120 others.
Combs is currently jailed as he awaits trial in May on sex-trafficking charges. He’s pleaded not guilty in the criminal case and has maintained his innocence amid a slew of civil lawsuits.
TUPAC’S BROTHER SPEAKS OUT ABOUT DIDDY
The late rapper Tupac Shakur’s stepbrother Mopreme Shakur doesn’t believe Sean “Diddy” Combs was being “100 per cent honest” when the disgraced music mogul denied playing any part in his sibling’s death.
Speaking on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Mr Shakur, whose real name is Maurice Shakur, said that he had spoken to Combs about rumours of his alleged involvement but there’s “doubt” about what he said.
Tupac was killed in a drive-by shooting after leaving a boxing bout in Las Vegas in 1996 amid the height of his rap war with Combs and Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G, who was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in 1997.
Because of the years-long feud, many speculated that Combs’ Bad Boy Records crew had been involved.
However, Combs said in a now-retracted story in the Los Angeles Times in 2008 that neither he nor Notorious B.I.G. had “any knowledge of any attack on Tupac.”
“My opinion is that I don’t believe it was a 100 per cent honest statement,” Mr Shakur told Piers Morgan when asked about those remarks.
"I told him, ‘The truth is still yet to come out'."
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) October 11, 2024
Mopreme Shakur tells Piers Morgan what was said when Diddy called him to deny involvement in the murder of his brother Tupac.
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“So, again, we gotta find out what’s true and what’s false. What’s real and what’s fake.”
“I told him, ‘The truth is still yet to come out’.”
Mr Shakur said that Combs once tried to deny the allegations in person, as well, when he happened to be in Los Angeles several years after Tupac died.
DJ Big Boy, a fixture in the hip-hop community, facilitated the meeting, and Mr Moprene agreed to meet with “thug-like guys” beside him to hear what Combs had to say.
“[He] basically said he had nothing to do with my brother’s murder,” he told Morgan.
“I told him, ‘The truth is still yet to come out, so we’re going to see.’ Here we are, 27, 28 years later, it looks like there’s some doubt in that statement, along with all the other suspicions that people have.”
When Morgan asked if he thought Combs was lying to him at the time, Mr Shakur said, “Quite possibly and it’s kind of looking that way, in my opinion.”
Combs has strenuously denied being involved in the rapper’s death and has never been arrested, indicted, or charged in connection to these allegations.
However, Mr Shakur concluded that “it’s time” for allegations to be investigated once again.
The New York Post reported in July that Tupac’s family was considering filing a wrongful-death lawsuit against Combs over his alleged ties to Tupac’s fatal shooting.
“People from Diddy’s past are coming forward and providing info,” a source told the New York Post.
High-powered lawyers such as Alex Spiro who also represents A-list clients like Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Elon Musk were assigned to the case.
The new investigation comes after it had been revealed Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who has been charged with Tupac’s murder, once claimed to US authorities that Combs allegedly paid A$1.5 million to have Tupac killed.
“[Davis] has asserted publicly that he only told on himself and wasn’t trying to provide evidence against anyone else in his conversations with police,” a July 18 filing from the Clark County District Attorney’s Office read.
“However, this statement belies this claim, as he suggested that Sean Combs paid [drug dealer] Eric Von Martin a million dollars for the killings as well as offered to set up a surreptitious phone call with Terrence Brown, the driver, who, at the time, was still alive.”
Former Los Angeles Police Department detective Greg Kading, who had been working on Tupac’s case, also claimed in his book, Murder Rap, that Davis had confessed to Combs’ ties.
More recently, Tupac’s crime scene investigator Sheryl McCollum said during an interview in the US that Combs “may have been involved”.
Combs is currently in a New York jail as he faces federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges.
YOUNG USHER SENT TO LIVE WITH DIDDY
A top music executive spoke of his remorse over sending a baby-faced Usher to go and live with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The resurfaced anecdote from a memoir published eight years before the 54-year-old rapper was charged with sex trafficking adds to the growing body of claims which suggest people have been attempting to sound the alarm about Combs’ antics for years.
X Factor judge L.A. Reid signed young Usher to his label in 1993 when the music artist was just 14 and helped him release his debut single Call Me a Mack.
Reid, who is himself fighting a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and assault of
a former employee, wrote that it was “irresponsible” to send Usher to live with Combs in what he referred to as “Puffy Flavour Camp” in New York in a bid to make the teen “edgy”.
“Usher was 15-years-old, but nothing about him ever seemed juvenile,“ Reid wrote in his 2016 book Sing To Me: My Story Of Making Music, Finding Magic And Searching For Who’s Next.
“I was turning him over to the wildest party guy in the country at an age when I still needed to get his mother’s permission, but he went to New York for almost a year.
“I didn’t know whether I was being irresponsible or having an epiphany. I would never be sure flavour camp worked until he came back.”
When asked about the experience on The Howard Stern Show when the book was released, Usher emphatically stated his own four children would be having no such experience.
“Hell no,” Usher said.
Usher also elaborated on his time living with Combs in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone.
“(He introduced me to) a totally different set of s*** — sex, specifically,” Usher said.
“Sex is so hot in the industry, man. There was always girls around. You’d open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy.
“You never knew what was going to happen.”
The revelations come as disturbing video has resurfaced sparking speculation Combs was checking singer Justin Bieber for a wire.
In the footage, believed to be filmed in 2021 when Bieber was 27, Combs gives Bieber multiple pats on the back and chest.
“Diddy appears to be checking Justin Bieber to see if he is wearing a wire in this video,” a user on X who shared the video wrote.
Fellow X users who viewed the footage agreed.
“Definitely,” wrote one user, while others said simply, “yes”. “yes”.
The music mogul was indicted last month on three criminal counts that allege he sexually abused women and coerced them into drug-fuelled sex parties using threats and violence.
Bieber is said to be “disgusted” by the allegations against Diddy, who was a mentor early on in his career.
According to a source cited in the US Weekly, Bieber has been “advised to stay as far away as possible from anything and everything related to Diddy”.
It comes as a date has been set for Combs’s racketeering and sex trafficking trial.
Federal Judge Arun Subramanian set May 5 as the start date for the proceedings and noted that the “defendant will remain in custody” since no new requests had been filed by his lawyers after Combs was twice denied bail.
The 54-year-old rapper is simultaneously being sued in civil court by more than 100 people, including 25 minors at the time of the events, who accuse him of sexual assault, according to their lawyers.
As he entered the courtroom, Combs, wearing a light-coloured wrinkled shirt and pants, greeted his mother and children who were attending the hearing.
Prosecutor Emily Johnson said there was still more evidence to explore, noting that 96 electronic devices had been seized in March and that more charges were possible.
Allegations have been building against the Grammy Award-winner since last year, when singer Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, alleged Combs subjected her to more than a decade of coercion by physical force and drugs as well as a 2018 rape.
A spate of similarly lurid lawsuits since have painted a picture of Combs as a violent man who used his celebrity status to prey on women.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges. He has been jailed awaiting trial.
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