Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of raping a girl as alleged payback for her saying she believed he was concerned within the homicide of rapper Tupac Shakur, a brand new lawsuit exhibits.
The courtroom doc, filed in California, is the most recent civil case to be filed towards Combs, who’s at the moment behind held in New York as he awaits a felony trial on prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
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Within the lawsuit, the lady claims the hip-hop mogul raped her utilizing a distant management – and that associates witnessed and likewise took half in sexual abuse. She additionally alleges he threatened to provide her “a Glasgow smile” – to chop her face with a knife – and threatened he might hurt her and her household if she spoke out.
She is suing Combs, together with 4 different males and two girls, over allegations of sexual assault, battery, rape, sexual abuse, false imprisonment and kidnapping, and has known as for a trial by jury.
Combs, often called P Diddy, has not but responded to this lawsuit, however has denied all claims of sexual assault made towards him.
He has additionally beforehand denied any involvement within the homicide of Shakur, who was killed in a drive-by capturing in Las Vegas in 1996.
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Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996. Pic: Walik Goshorn/MediaPunch/IPx/AP
The lady claims she first met certainly one of Combs’ pals in a bar in February 2018. Within the lawsuit, she says the person made a video name to Combs and confirmed her – however she instructed him she “was not impressed” as she believed “he had something to do with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur”.
She heard Combs comment that she would “pay” for her assertion and dismissal of him, the courtroom paperwork say.
The lady says she was on the pal’s residence in Orinda, California, the next month, when the rapper arrived unannounced.
He instructed her once more she would “pay”, the lawsuit claims, and approached her with a knife. He held it to the precise aspect of her face “and threatened to give her a ‘Glasgow smile’ in retaliation for her previous statements on the video call”, the doc says.
The lady alleges her garments have been eliminated and that Combs coated her in a substance she realised was an oil or lubricant, earlier than choosing up a tv distant and “violently” raping her with it.
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Combs is accused of telling the lady “her life was in his hands and that if he wanted he could ‘take her’ and she would never be seen again”, and likewise that he “owned her now”.
She was then raped by Combs and others “until eventually she had no control over her body nor could she move her body”, the lawsuit alleges. The rapper recorded a few of this, she claims.
The lady says she ultimately managed to run for assist and that Combs provided her cash to say she was a intercourse employee and that that they had had consensual intercourse.
She says she instructed an area sheriff about her ordeal, however her grievance was “ignored”.
Her declare in California comes a day after six lawsuits have been filed towards Combs in New York, with extra anticipated within the coming weeks.
In a press release, Combs’ representatives mentioned the rapper and his authorized workforce “have full confidence in the facts, their legal defences, and the integrity of the judicial process”.
They added: “In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, man or woman.”
When deliberate lawsuits have been introduced on 1 October, certainly one of his legal professionals mentioned he couldn’t “address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus”.
Combs, 54, was as soon as probably the most influential producers in hip-hop, and often known as a rapper in his personal proper, with hits together with Dangerous Boy For Life and I will Be Lacking You.
After being arrested in September, he pleaded not responsible to 3 felony prices accusing him of utilizing his enterprise empire, together with report label Dangerous Boy Leisure, to move female and male intercourse staff throughout state strains to participate in recorded sexual performances known as “freak offs”.
His felony trial has been set for Could 2025.
The killing of Tupac remained unsolved for greater than twenty years, however the case was reinvestigated in recent times.
In September 2023, former gang member Duane “Keffe D” Davis was charged with homicide. His trial is because of happen in March 2025.
