A former mannequin has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault in a brand new lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York.
The lawsuit alleges that in 2003, Combs assaulted mannequin Crystal McKinney at his music studio after a Males’s Vogue Week dinner.
In line with the swimsuit, Combs invited McKinney, then 22, to the New York Metropolis house, the place he and a gaggle of males had been ingesting alcohol and smoking marijuana. McKinney stated she was supplied a joint, which she later got here to consider had been laced with a “narcotic or different intoxicating substance.”
After she “insisted that she had sufficient,” she stated, Combs pressured her to proceed ingesting and smoking and “demanded” she comply with him to the toilet.
There, the swimsuit alleges, Combs “pressured himself” on McKinney, kissing her with out her consent and pushing her head right down to his crotch. Regardless of her refusals, she stated, he then pressured her to carry out oral intercourse.
Combs then led McKinney again into the studio, the place she handed out, in accordance with the lawsuit. When she awoke, she was alone in a taxicab headed again to the house of an unnamed clothier who had launched McKinney and Combs earlier that night time. McKinney stated that she realized she had been assaulted as soon as she regained consciousness.
McKinney’s attorneys weren’t instantly accessible to make clear whether or not her realization was in regard to the allegations of pressured oral intercourse, or to another occasion that occurred whereas she was unconscious.
Combs faces a number of allegations of sexual assault courting again many years. He’s additionally the topic of a federal inquiry into intercourse trafficking allegations. His representatives didn’t instantly reply to The Instances’ request for remark.
McKinney’s lawsuit comes days after surveillance video from 2016 confirmed Combs beating up his former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, who filed a lawsuit towards Combs in November that accused him of rape. That swimsuit was shortly settled, however Combs has since denied the allegations.
In a video launched Saturday, Combs apologized for the actions captured on digicam.
“It’s so troublesome to mirror on the darkest occasions in your life, however generally you bought to do this,” Combs stated in his Instagram apology. “I used to be f— up — I hit all-time low — however I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable. I take full accountability for my actions in that video.”
In line with McKinney’s lawsuit, the previous mannequin felt a “ethical obligation” to come back ahead together with her account after Ventura and 4 others accused Combs of sexual misconduct.
Following the alleged sexual assault, McKinney stated, she was “blackballed” from the modeling business, skilled nervousness and despair, and in 2004 tried suicide.
“Combs’ assault has altered the trajectory of [McKinney’s] profession,” the swimsuit states. “To today, [McKinney] faces bouts of despair, nervousness, physique picture points, emotions of worthlessness and intimacy points due to Combs’ assault.”
The lawsuit additionally names Combs’ companies, Unhealthy Boy Data and Sean John Clothes, and music label Common Music, as defendants, saying they’d enabled Combs’ alleged habits.
