Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of sexually assaulting two ladies on a number of events within the late Nineteen Nineties.
In keeping with court docket paperwork obtained by PEOPLE, the separate lawsuits had been filed in New York County’s Supreme Courtroom on Tuesday, Feb. 4, by two ladies who recognized as Jane Doe.
Each Jane Does allege that they had been energetic within the hip-hop scene by means of the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, in order that they typically crossed paths with Combs.
The primary Jane Doe alleged in her submitting that Combs sexually assaulted her in a number of states, together with California. Nevertheless, the particular allegations in Tuesday’s submitting stem from alleged incidents that came about in New York.
Within the first alleged occasion described within the submitting, Combs employed the primary Jane Doe to offer bottle service for a celebration at his house in The Hamptons. When he arrived, he allegedly supplied drinks to her and different workers. After her first drink, she “started to really feel woozy, slipping out and in of consciousness” when Combs’ male associates allegedly sexually assaulted and raped her below “Combs’ path” whereas he was current, the lawsuit alleged, including that Combs was nude as “one other man sodomiz[ed] him.”
The primary Jane Doe suspected the alleged incident was captured on video, nonetheless, Combs refused to delete the footage, she claimed, per the grievance.
In a separate alleged incident that additionally came about in N.Y.C. within the late Nineteen Nineties, the primary Jane Doe was at Combs’ celebration at Limelight nightclub when he allegedly refused to let her depart, the lawsuit states.
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As an alternative, per the grievance, he allegedly took her and one in all her buddies to the Trump Resort in midtown Manhattan, the place the primary Jane Doe and her buddy had been allegedly held towards their will, “drugged, and compelled to take part in group-sex exercise throughout which she [was] sexually assaulted over the subsequent a number of hours.”
Combs then let the 2 ladies depart the next morning, court docket paperwork state.
The second Jane Doe made comparable claims in her personal submitting towards Combs. She claimed that “on quite a few separate events,” Combs grew to become “violent” and subjected her to “sexual assault, coercion, abuse and violence by the hands of or path of Combs.”
On the night of Combs’ celebration at Limelight, the second Jane Doe, who was relationship Combs’ safety guard on the time, alleged in court docket paperwork that she was bodily and sexually assaulted as Combs watched. She and a buddy had been then allegedly “pressured to take” what she believes was ecstasy or an identical drug and take part in “a gaggle intercourse exercise,” the lawsuit claimed.
Each Jane Does are suing for alleged violation of the New York Metropolis Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act, and asking for compensatory damages for all bodily accidents, emotional misery, psychological hurt, anxiousness, humiliation, bodily and emotional ache and struggling, household and social disruption, and different hurt.
They’re additionally requesting punitive damages and attorneys’ charges.
Attorneys for Combs denied the allegations within the two Jane Doe lawsuits in a single assertion to PEOPLE.
“As we’ve mentioned earlier than, Mr. Combs can’t reply to each new publicity stunt, even in response to claims which might be facially ridiculous or demonstrably false,” the assertion started. “Mr. Combs and his authorized crew have full confidence within the info and the integrity of the judicial course of. In court docket, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody—man or lady, grownup or minor.”
The filings towards Combs come the identical day {that a} male accuser and aspiring musician alleged in a lawsuit that the disgraced music mogul drugged him at a 2015 celebration in Los Angeles in order that Combs may allegedly carry out oral intercourse on him.
Combs’ attorneys’ assertion was the identical response they gave for the male accuser’s lawsuit earlier within the day.
Combs is at the moment being held in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart after being charged with intercourse trafficking, transportation to interact in prostitution and racketeering. His trial date is scheduled to start on Could 5.
When you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
Extra reporting by Lawrence Yee.
