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Sean “Diddy” Combs is dealing with new sexual-assault allegations. For every TMZ and Rolling Stone, former product Crystal McKinney has submitted a lawsuit boasting that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her at his recording studio in 2003 when she was 22. (For every the New York Moments, the lawsuit is being brought under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Determined Violence Act, which permits grievances to be filed in a selected window soon after the statute of limits has handed.) According to McKinney, an unnamed designer inviting her to meal with Combs all through Men’s Style 7 days in New York Town. She recalls Combs asking her to go to his Manhattan studio that evening, which she felt would be harmless since it was a expert surroundings. On the other hand, as soon as there, she statements that Combs gave her a joint that she thinks was laced with a narcotic. Allegedly, he then led her to a rest room in which he kissed her without consent, pushed her head down, and compelled her to accomplish oral intercourse on him. McKinney recollects passing out soon soon after and waking up in a taxi to understand that she had been sexually assaulted. Reps for Combs did not straight away respond to Vulture’s ask for for comment.
Cassie Ventura, Combs’s ex-girlfriend and former signee to his label, submitted a lawsuit in opposition to him past yr. Although that scenario was settled following a person working day, it was followed by quite a few other legal statements of sexual misconduct and illegal behavior in opposition to the tunes mogul. Combs has constantly denied the allegations from him and as an alternative suggested that his accusers are looking to make revenue. On the other hand, he did not too long ago launch an apology after graphic footage showed him assaulting Ventura in a lodge in 2016.