A former model has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2003, Combs assaulted product Crystal McKinney at his songs studio immediately after a Men’s Fashion Week meal.
In accordance to the match, Combs invited McKinney, then 22, to the New York City area, where by he and a team of adult males have been consuming alcoholic beverages and cigarette smoking cannabis. McKinney stated she was provided a joint, which she afterwards came to consider had been laced with a “narcotic or other intoxicating material.”
Soon after she “insisted that she experienced enough,” she explained, Combs pressured her to carry on ingesting and smoking cigarettes and “demanded” she follow him to the lavatory.
There, the accommodate alleges, Combs “forced himself” on McKinney, kissing her without having her consent and pushing her head down to his crotch. Regardless of her refusals, she stated, he then pressured her to carry out oral intercourse.
Combs then led McKinney back again into the studio, wherever she handed out, according to the lawsuit. When she awoke, she was by yourself in a taxicab headed back to the household of an unnamed vogue designer who had released McKinney and Combs before that night. McKinney mentioned that she understood she had been assaulted at the time she regained consciousness.
McKinney’s lawyers ended up not right away out there to explain regardless of whether her realization was in regard to the allegations of compelled oral intercourse, or to some other event that happened although she was unconscious.
Combs faces many allegations of sexual assault relationship back a long time. He’s also the topic of a federal inquiry into sexual intercourse trafficking allegations. His associates did not instantly answer to The Times’ ask for for comment.
McKinney’s lawsuit will come days immediately after surveillance video clip from 2016 showed Combs beating up his previous girlfriend, R&B singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, who filed a lawsuit in opposition to Combs in November that accused him of rape. That accommodate was promptly settled, but Combs has since denied the allegations.
In a video clip introduced Saturday, Combs apologized for the steps captured on digicam.
“It’s so tricky to replicate on the darkest periods in your everyday living, but often you got to do that,” Combs explained in his Instagram apology. “I was f— up — I strike rock base — but I make no excuses. My behavior on that video clip is inexcusable. I take entire accountability for my actions in that online video.”
In accordance to McKinney’s lawsuit, the former design felt a “moral obligation” to occur forward with her account just after Ventura and four other individuals accused Combs of sexual misconduct.
Subsequent the alleged sexual assault, McKinney explained, she was “blackballed” from the modeling marketplace, skilled stress and anxiety and depression, and in 2004 attempted suicide.
“Combs’ assault has altered the trajectory of [McKinney’s] career,” the match states. “To this working day, [McKinney] faces bouts of melancholy, nervousness, system graphic issues, emotions of worthlessness and intimacy issues for the reason that of Combs’ assault.”
The lawsuit also names Combs’ organizations, Poor Boy Data and Sean John Garments, and audio label Universal New music, as defendants, indicating they experienced enabled Combs’ alleged behavior.
