Police chief accused of ‘covering up’ alleged Diddy ‘gang rape’
A US police chief has been accused in a bombshell court filing of helping to cover up a gang rape allegedly carried out by Sean “Diddy” Combs, NFL star Odell Beckham Jr and comedian Druski.
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A US police chief has been accused in a bombshell court filing of helping to cover up a gang rape allegedly carried out by Sean “Diddy” Combs, NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. and comedian Druski.
Police Chief John Pelletier is accused of trying to conceal the violent attack on one of Combs’ accusers, Ashley Parham, after it was reported in 2018, according to an amended lawsuit filed in Northern California federal court.
The police chief and the celebrities accused of carrying out the attack have all strenuously denied the allegations.
Then a police captain in Las Vegas, Pelletier is accused of posing as a Contra Costa sheriff’s deputy when he responded to a 911 call about the alleged sexual attack at a home in California, the court papers charge.
The accuser claims a neighbour — who she believed at the time was a good Samaritan — called police after she fled the home in the wake of the alleged gang rape.
“Pelletier, falsely posing as a Contra Costa Sheriff, told [the alleged victim] and the neighbour that they had received several noise complaints prior to the neighbour’s call and instructed [Parham] to find a way to get home,” the filing states.
Pelletier allegedly didn’t offer to take the woman home, call an ambulance, take her to the hospital or help retrieve her belongings from the home she’d just fled, according to the suit.
The accuser alleges seeing the police chief hand what appeared to be an envelope to the neighbour.
“The neighbour went to a nearby room and quickly returned empty-handed,” the filing states, adding the alleged victim “believes the envelope contained cash”.
Parham’s initial lawsuit detailing the alleged assault, which was first filed last October, didn’t identify Pelletier by name. The initial suit also didn’t name Beckham Jr. or Druski.
Pelletier, Beckham Jr. and Druski have all strenuously denied the allegations now in the amended filing.
“We are confident that the evidence will demonstrate these claims to be false and will expose those who are deliberately trying to manipulate the legal system to spread misleading narratives,” a spokesman for Pelletier said.
The initial suit claimed Combs threatened her with a knife and used a TV remote to rape the alleged victim in an apparent revenge attack after the woman had suggested a month earlier that the disgraced music mogul was involved in Tupac Shakur’s murder.
She alleges in the suit that a handful of other men then took turns raping her.
The attackers allegedly referred to Beckham as “Cornelius,” the amended lawsuit states, noting the 32-year-old athlete’s middle name is Cornelious.
[The alleged victim] has come to discover the Defendant Doe Cornelius who raped her was Defendant Odell,” the lawsuit alleges.
Beckham said in a statement on X late Tuesday that he couldn’t “even believe that my name is mentioned in that matter.”
“There is absolutely no truth to those allegations,” he stated firmly. “I do not know and have never met the person that filed the suit.”
“I have never done anything like that, and I would never do anything like that to anyone,” he added. “I’m confident that these ridiculous claims against me will be dismissed.”
Elsewhere, Druski, whose real name is Drew Desbordes, is accused of putting oil on Parham’s naked body before “treating it like a slip and slide and knocking the wind out of [Parham] due to his enormous size,” the filing claims.
Druski then stopped himself from falling off the bed and allegedly raped Parham, the papers state.
Druski called it a “fabricated lie.”
“I wasn’t even a public figure in 2018 — I was broke living with my [mother] without any connections to the entertainment industry at the time of this allegation, so the inclusion of my name is truly outlandish,” he wrote on X.
“My heart breaks for actual victims of abuse, but I’m fully confident that the evidence will expose this falsehood and the individuals who are maliciously trying to game the legal system to peddle false narratives.”
Combs, for his part, has long denied the numerous claims levelled against him.
“This new complaint — brought by a lawyer who has already been sued for defaming Mr. Combs — demonstrates the depraved lengths plaintiffs will travel to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday,” the rapper’s attorneys said in the wake of the amended suit.
“Mr Combs was nowhere near Orinda, California on the day Ms Parham claims she was assaulted there, and the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department has already confirmed Ms. Parham’s claims were determined to be unfounded following a thorough investigation.”
“In an attempt to salvage her claims following the investigation debunking them, Ms. Parham has now invented an even wilder narrative, alleging a vast [and facially implausible] conspiracy between law enforcement, local civilians, and media industry players,” the attorneys added.
“Mr Combs looks forward to having his day in court where these lies — and the perverse motives of those who told them — will be revealed.”
The Bad Boy Records founder was slapped with federal sex-trafficking charges last September.
Since his arrest, a flurry of civil lawsuits has also been filed against the rapper alleging abuse dating back decades.
Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges, is being held without bail in federal custody in Brooklyn ahead of his trial in May.
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