EXCLUSIVE Diddy's former bodyguard Joe Sherman vows to take drastic action after being accused of drugging and raping woman in 2001 By Marjorie Hernandez West Coast News Editor For Dailymail.Com Published: 03:23, 26 September 2024 | Updated: 03:23, 26 September 2024 e-mail View comments Diddy 's former bodyguard vowed to take legal action in an effort to clear his name after being accused of raping a woman in the early 2000s. Joseph Sherman demanded that authorities investigate Thalia Graves, the Texas woman who has named him and Combs in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York.
'This is totally wrong and I’m having my attorneys file a defamation suit against this lady,' Sherman told DailyMail.com exclusively. In her lawsuit filed Tuesday, Graves said she was violently raped by Combs and Sherman at the Bad Boy Records studio in New York the summer of 2001 when she was 25-years old.
She alleged the disgraced mogul and Sherman lured her to the studio and gave her a drink that was ‘likely laced with a drug’ that caused her to lose consciousness. Joseph 'Big Joe' Sherman said he plans to countersue Thalia Graves, a Texas woman who filed a lawsuit against him and Sean 'Diddy' Combs claiming she was sexually assaulted by both men at Bad Boy's New York recording studio in the summer of 2001 Thalia Graves became emotional during a press conference at her attorney Gloria Allred's law firm in Los Angeles on Sept. 24, 2024.
She claims she has suffered for years from the trauma.