In a brand new wave of lawsuits in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, Macy’s has been accused of masking up one of many music mogul’s alleged sexual assaults with a purpose to defend a significant cope with his clothes model.
The lawsuit filed by “John Doe” in Ohio has claimed that in 2008, Combs orally raped a person whereas he was working within the stockroom at Macy’s flagship retailer in Herald Sq., in Manhattan, New York, based on Business Insider.
The plaintiff, who mentioned he labored as an advisor for Combs’s rival clothes firm, Ecko Unltd on the time, claimed within the lawsuit that he was violently attacked by Combs’s bodyguards, who threatened to kill him. Combs allegedly then compelled the plaintiff to carry out oral intercourse on him whereas he referred to as him “Ecko.”
When the plaintiff reported the alleged assault to Macy’s safety, he allegedly obtained no follow-up and was later barred from the shop.
In the meantime, Combs “started passing out merchandise to an adoring crowd, as if nothing had occurred,” the lawsuit claims.
“Roughly three weeks later, Terry Lundgren, CEO of Macy’s, pressured Ecko Unltd. executives to fireside plaintiff as a result of Macy’s had simply signed a multi-million-dollar cope with Sean John Clothes,” based on the lawsuit by way of Enterprise Insider.
The plaintiff mentioned he was then fired and misplaced his condo that was paid for by the corporate.
He claims within the lawsuit that he “believes that the report of the assault was destroyed or in any other case purged from Macy’s information, and no motion was ever taken because of the report.”
The Impartial has reached out to Macy’s for remark.
The disturbing allegations are the most recent in opposition to Combs, who was arrested in September after a grand jury indicted him on federal prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
At the very least six lawsuits that had been filed in opposition to the hip-hop mogul in federal courtroom in Manhattan had been filed anonymously, two by girls recognized as Jane Does and 4 by males recognized as John Does. The allegations, which included molesting a 16-year-old boy, supposedly occurred from 1995 by 2021.
One of many John Does alleged that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 at one of many rapper’s “white events” in Lengthy Island’s Hamptons in 1998.
The accusers are a part of what their attorneys say is a bunch of greater than 100 alleged victims who’re within the technique of taking authorized motion in opposition to Combs within the wake of his intercourse trafficking arrest final month.
Till Monday’s lawsuit, Combs had solely been accused in civil instances and his legal indictment of sexual exercise with adults.
Combs’s attorneys and different representatives didn’t instantly reply to an e mail searching for remark.
When the deliberate lawsuits had been introduced October 1, a lawyer mentioned Combs “can’t handle each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus.”
Combs, 54, has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking prices alleging he coerced and abused girls for years with assist from a community of associates and staff whereas silencing victims by blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Combs’s attorneys have been attempting unsuccessfully to get him freed on bail. He has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his arrest.
