Another woman has sued Sean “Diddy” Combs, alleging that the music mogul and his head of security raped her and recorded it on video at his New York recording studio in 2001. The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York on Tuesday, the latest of several similar suits against Combs, comes a week after he was arrested and a federal sex trafficking indictment against him was unsealed. Fresh charges have been brought against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Thalia Graves alleges that when she was 25 and dating an executive who worked for Combs in the summer of 2001, Combs and Joseph Sherman lured her to a meeting at Bad Boy Recording Studios. She said they picked her up in an SUV and during the ride gave her a drink “likely laced with a drug”. According to the lawsuit, Graves lost consciousness and awoke to find herself bound inside Combs’ office and lounge at the studio.
The two men raped her, slapped her, slammed her head against a pool table and ignored her screams and cries for help, the lawsuit alleges. At a news conference in Los Angeles with one of her attorneys, Gloria Allred, Graves said she has suffered from “flashbacks, nightmares and intrusive thoughts” in the years since. “It has been hard for me to trust others to form healthy relationships or even feel safe in my own skin,” Graves said, crying as she read from a statement.
She said it is “a pain that reaches into your very core of who you are and leaves emotional scar.