Sean “Diddy” Combs’ lawful woes are significantly from more than.
The embattled rap mogul and alcohol entrepreneur faces clean accusations of sexual assault and sex trafficking in a new lawsuit submitted Wednesday in the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York. The criticism marks the ninth sexual assault lawsuit filed from the rapper given that final November, when his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura submitted a lawsuit in which she described staying abused by Combs.
Adria English, an adult-film actor who suggests she labored for Combs from 2004 to 2009, accuses the rapper of conducting and collaborating in a RICO enterprise, sexual assault, sexual harassment and sex trafficking, in accordance to lawful documents reviewed by The Situations. The 114-page criticism raises more than 30 allegations from Combs, various of his enterprise ventures, celeb jeweler Jacob “Jacob the Jeweler” Arabo, a girl who allegedly facilitated the rapper’s sexual intercourse trafficking and two media corporations, in addition to unnamed men and women.
“No make any difference how lots of lawsuits are submitted it won’t improve the simple fact that Mr. Combs has under no circumstances sexually assaulted or sexual intercourse trafficked anybody,” Jonathan Davis, an attorney for Combs, instructed The Situations in a statement. “We dwell in a planet where by anyone can file a lawsuit for any purpose and devoid of any evidence. The good news is, a honest and neutral judicial approach exists to locate the reality and Mr. Combs is assured he will prevail versus these and other baseless statements in court docket.”
In the lawsuit, English specifics her account of working at Combs’ different high-profile “white parties” at his residences in New York and Florida, the place she alleges she was “demanded” to engage in sexual intercourse with visitors, including Arabo. English accuses Combs of forcing her to have sexual intercourse with Arabo in 2007, noting in the lawsuit that refusing the hip-hop star’s “demands was not an possibility.”
A representative for Arabo did not straight away react to The Times’ request for remark.
English accuses Combs of threatening to “blackball [her] from the entertainment industry” and her then-boyfriend from the modeling marketplace if she did not engage in sexual intercourse perform at the get-togethers. In 2009, English still left New York and returned to California, where by she presently resides. The lawsuit claims that was English’s “only way to escape” Combs.
English submitted her complaint months immediately after U.S. Section of Homeland Stability brokers conducted queries of Combs’ Holmby Hills and Miami mansions in March as aspect of a federal inquiry into sexual intercourse trafficking allegations involving Combs. It’s unclear regardless of whether English’s allegations are related to that inquiry. TMZ described Wednesday that Combs is trying to find to promote that Holmby Hills mansion for $70 million.
In addition to Combs and the corporations and people who allegedly participated and facilitated his white events, English is suing new music journal Vibe and its owner, Penske Media Corp. She alleges the media firms provided Combs the resources to toss his parties, inflicted emotional distress linked to the alleged sex trafficking and publicized her likeness in a November 2006 journal difficulty about the functions.
English is inquiring for damages together with Vibe and PMC‘s income from the November 2006 journal, lawful fees, losses and “further authorized and equitable relief as deemed right.” She wants a demo by jury.
