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Sean “Diddy” Combs is being sued by a girl who was employed at his well-known annual Labor Day “white occasion,” who alleges she was anticipated to take narcotics and have intercourse with friends.
Adria English, who filed the lawsuit on Wednesday (July 3), claims that she was first employed by Combs in 2004 and was “groomed… into intercourse trafficking over time.”
In response to the brand new submitting, Jonathan Davis, Combs’s legal professional informed The Impartial: “Irrespective of what number of lawsuits are filed it gained’t change the truth that Mr Combs has by no means sexually assaulted or intercourse trafficked anybody. We stay in a world the place anybody can file a lawsuit for any motive and with none proof. Happily, a good and neutral judicial course of exists to search out the reality and Mr Combs is assured he’ll prevail towards these and different baseless claims in court docket.”
It’s the tenth lawsuit to be filed towards the embattled music mogul since final November. Combs, 54, has strongly denied the entire allegations towards him to this point.
As Fox News and TMZ report, English is a former porn star who states within the authorized paperwork that her first yr working at Combs’s celeb-packed occasion in Miami “had no sinister intent or necessities for bodily sexual contact and appeared to be a legit employment alternative.”
Due to this fact, when she was invited again to work the next yr “she accepted the employment alternative.”
Nonetheless, she says that across the third occasion she labored at Diddy “demanded” that she “start partaking in vaginal sexual activity with friends, as that they had realized about her previous in grownup leisure and used it forcefully to coerce Plaintiff into intercourse work.”
She goes on to state that her recollections of some particulars are hazy because of the reality she was anticipated to eat “copious quantities of alcohol” and “illicit narcotics.” Nonetheless, the paperwork add that “the encounters Plaintiff was pressured to endure have been so excruciating that Plaintiff remembers them as they nonetheless hang-out her to this present day.”
English is suing Diddy and three of his associates, searching for unspecified damages.
In March, properties belonging to Combs in Los Angeles and Miami have been raided by officers from US Homeland Safety in connection to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation.
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The rapper has not been formally charged or accused by federal prosecutors of any crime.
The sudden raids got here because the music mogul – who’s credited with serving to launch the careers of artists together with Biggie Smalls, Mary J Blige and Usher – confronted a string of various accusations, together with sexual assault.
In Might, CNN aired safety footage of Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a lodge hallway in Los Angeles in 2016. Captured from a number of angles, the video exhibits Combs in a towel chasing Ventura down the hallway, earlier than attacking her close to the elevators.
Combs subsequently shared an apology video on Instagram saying his conduct was “inexcusable” and that he took “full duty for his actions within the video.”
Alleged victims of Combs are anticipated to seem in entrance of a federal grand jury, signalling potential felony prices.
