Three men sued Sean “Diddy” Combs on Thursday in New York, claiming the producer spiked their drinks and raped them after they lost consciousness.
The earliest allegation dates back to 2019 — with one of the accusers claiming Combs paid them $2,500 after the assault. TMZ reported that two of the accusers said they were raped at a hotel, as one claimed the assault transpired at the same Manhattan hotel Combs was arrested at in September.
“These complaints are full of lies. We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him,” Combs’ lawyers told TMZ following the latest batch of lawsuits.
According to NBC, one of the victims worked for Combs from 2006 to 2018. That victim claimed he did not expect to be assaulted by Combs in 2020. He said Combs gave him a drink and he became dizzy within minutes. He allegedly woke up to Combs sodomizing him and stating, “I’m almost done,” when he tried to fight back.
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On September 16, Combs was arrested outside a Manhattan hotel on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
In March, feral authorities raided Combs’ homes in Holmby Hills, California, and Miami. Reports indicated that the raid was connected to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation that resulted in his arrest months later.
The reported raids also occurred four months after his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accused him of sex trafficking and abuse. In a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, she alleged that Combs drugged her and forced her to have sex with other men. The pair settled the lawsuit a day after its filing.
However, in May, a video surfaced showing Combs assaulting Ventura at a California hotel in 2016. After the video was released, Combs released a video expressing remorse for his behavior. That video is mentioned in the criminal charges filed this week against Combs.
Two more accusers came forward a week after Ventura’s lawsuit. One of the women claimed Combs drugged and raped her at Syracuse University in New York in 1991. He denied those allegations before a third accuser, Liza Gardner, levied similar allegations against him.
In that case, Gardner claimed Sean Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall drugged and raped her and a friend following an Uptown Records event in 1990. Gardner said she was 16 at the time of the incident. She also accused Sean Combs of choking her a day after the assault.
Days after footage of the 2016 assault was publicized, two more women filed lawsuits against Combs. One of those women was April Lampros, a New York Fashion Institute of Technology student who reportedly met Combs in 1994. Lampros accused him of sexually assaulting her on four instances between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s.
Lampros claimed Combs promised to mentor her and connect her with executives in the fashion industry. Instead, Combs allegedly forced her to drink before raping her in a hotel room. Lampros recalled another instance in which Combs forced her to perform oral sex on her in a parking garage while a parking attendant watched.
Combs has been accused of committing or facilitating sexual abuse in at least 30 lawsuits. His trial is scheduled to begin in May 2025. He remains jailed without bail.
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