Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with new sexual assault allegations on Friday as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the music mogul’s homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters. It is the latest of several similar lawsuits by women against Combs, who also was arrested last week on a federal sex trafficking indictment. The lawsuit was filed against Combs, his companies and several associates and seeks undisclosed damages for physical injuries, severe emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety and other harms.
A lawyer for Combs, his company and one of his representatives did not immediately return emails seeking comment. The woman in the latest lawsuit, identified by the pseudonym Jane Doe, accuses Combs of sexually assaulting her while she was unconscious from drugs, and it alleges Combs and his acquaintances recorded sexual encounters without her permission. She says that she met Combs overseas in 2020 and that the assaults and harassment continued through to July this year.
She says she often was coerced and harassed into travelling to Combs’ homes in New York, Los Angeles and Miami and other cities, including monthly in 2021 and 2022. “At every visit, (Combs) would make her ‘perform a show’ for him and would ply her with alcohol and substances until she passed out — she would wake up with bruising and injuries but with no recollection of how she sustained her injuries,” the lawsuit says. In a July 2022 e.