Another woman has come forward with sexual assault allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs. Thalia Graves alleges that Combs and his bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, tied her up and violently raped her in a Bad Boys recording studio the summer of 2001, recorded the attack without her knowledge and later distributed the video as pornography. In both her 26-page civil suit and a televised press conference held by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, Graves says she was 25 years old at the time of the assault and met the Bad Boy owner while she was dating a record producer who was working for the label.
Graves alleges Combs invited her to a Manhattan recording studio where he offered her a drink that she believes was laced with drugs; she fell unconscious soon after drinking it. When she woke up, Graves claims she was naked with her hands “bound and restrained” with what she thinks was a plastic bag. Graves says Combs entered the room naked and that he and Sherman, a.
k.a. Big Joe, then took turns raping her vaginally and anally.
When she tried to escape from under him, Combs slammed her head into a pool table, knocking her unconscious again. When she woke up, Graves alleges that Sherman slapped her and forced her to perform oral sex until she passed out a third time. The civil suit states that “both men were undeterred by the Plaintiff’s cries for help throughout the attack.
” Once she regained consciousness, she claims she found herself alone in the studio and ran out as fast as she co.
