This story accommodates an outline of an alleged sexual assault.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been named in one other civil lawsuit, this time by a girl alleging that his son Christian “King” Combs sexually assaulted her aboard a superyacht the Dangerous Boy Leisure co-founder charted in late 2022.
However the Combs workforce dismissed it as “simply one other lewd and meritless declare” by her lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, that’s “crammed with the identical form of manufactured lies and irrelevant info” that they’ve come to anticipate from the New York-based lawyer.
Within the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, Grace O’Marcaigh added her identify to the listing of individuals accusing the embattled enterprise mogul of alleged wrongdoing whereas he faces a federal probe into sex-trafficking allegations. O’Marcaigh, who labored as a steward on the Victorious ship, alleged that the 26-year-old rapper Christian Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in late December 2022 aboard the boat constitution, which Diddy “bought as a healthful household tour” that devolved right into a “hedonistic setting.”
O’Marcaigh, who was 25 across the time of the alleged incident, offered dinner and drink service on the yacht from 6 p.m. to six a.m. The bartender additionally mentioned she witnessed partying and drug use between a “fixed rotation of suspected intercourse staff and different A-Checklist celebrities, in accordance with the submitting reviewed Friday by The Occasions.
O’Marcaigh is accusing Christian Combs, one in all Diddy’s kids with the late mannequin Kim Porter, of sexual assault, sexual harassment and infliction of emotional misery within the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial. Diddy, 54, who is called as a co-defendant , is being sued for premises legal responsibility as the one that leased the yacht and “had full management of the employees and premises” and for aiding and abetting his son within the alleged assault. O’Marcaigh accused him of orchestrating a “subsequent coverup” of her alleged assault that finally resulted in her termination in Could 2023.
She claimed that Diddy allowed for “undesirable publicity to illegal drug use, intercourse work, and common chaos,” including that the mogul “created an especially hazardous setting” wherein employees was usually “handled with disrespect, suspected intercourse staff had been sprawled out unconscious in regards to the yacht, and it was troublesome to differentiate which bottles of alcohol had been laced with medication and which bottles weren’t.” She described ladies aboard the yacht “falling over themselves, panicking, or passing out” after one shot of tequila or one combined drink that she believed was “seemingly laced with medication.”
The criticism was filed by lawyer Tyrone A. Blackburn, the lawyer who can also be representing Diddy’s former “Love” album producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in a bombshell sexual harassment and assault case introduced towards the Grammy Award winner, his son Justin “Dior” Combs, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and different members of Diddy’s inside circle. (O’Marcaigh, in her criticism, described Jones as “an prolonged member of the service employees” who hung out together with her on the service bar and piano room on the yacht.)
She additionally made a number of different allegations about illicit habits by Diddy and Gooding, whom she mentioned she witnessed “inappropriately touching” Jones, as was alleged in Jones’ lawsuit.
“Like father, like son,” Blackburn mentioned in an announcement to NBC Information, which first reported on the brand new lawsuit. “It offers us no pleasure or pleasure in submitting this swimsuit towards Christian Combs who has clearly adopted his father’s sample and observe of depravity.”
Blackburn and fellow submitting lawyer Rodney S. Diggs didn’t reply Friday to The Occasions’ requests for remark.
“That is simply one other lewd and meritless declare from Tyrone Blackburn — similar to what he filed within the Rodney Jones lawsuit, which he nonetheless has not served,” mentioned lawyer Aaron Dyer, who represents each Sean and Christian Combs.
“This criticism is crammed with the identical form of manufactured lies and irrelevant info we’ve come to anticipate from Blackburn. That is precisely why the federal decide in New York slapped him two days in the past for a ‘sample of habits’ in ‘improperly [filing] instances in federal courtroom to garner media consideration, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and stress defendants to settle rapidly,’ and why he was referred to the disciplinary committee within the Southern District of New York. We will probably be submitting a movement to dismiss this outrageous declare.”
Up to now, Diddy has denied wrongdoing and vowed to combat the lawsuits. 4 ladies, together with his ex Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, have sued him since final November alleging sexual assault.
O’Marcaigh, who’s described in courtroom paperwork as “a European Caucasian feminine who labored as a Stewardess within the Yachting Trade since 2018,” mentioned she deliberate to work the whole thing of her profession in hospitality and the yachting trade, however, as said in her criticism, “these plans have been derailed as a result of trauma [she] continues to have on account of the assault.”
On or round Dec. 28, 2022 — days earlier than Diddy hosted a star-studded New 12 months’s Eve get together aboard the ship — O’Marcaigh mentioned that she labored the late shift on the yacht when Christian Combs, who normally stayed at a close-by villa on shore, got here aboard “closely intoxicated” from what O’Marcaigh believed was “a mix of narcotics and alcohol.”
Whereas she was serving drinks within the studio the place Jones additionally was current that evening, Christian was being “significantly attentive together with her, which she thought of very inappropriate.” Christian then insisted that O’Marcaigh take a shot of tequila, which she believed he had spiked. She said that she “felt comfy realizing that Mr. Jones was current and “didn’t assume something extra of it,” and thought she might return to the pantry after the drink. However when she took the shot, she mentioned the “temper modified” and issues “grew to become sinister.”
O’Marcaigh described Christian violently grabbing her arm and hurting her as he insisted that she take one other shot. After that, “the state of affairs escalated” and he or she described being bodily assaulted by Christian, whom she alleged touched her legs, breasts, anus and vagina, and who additionally tried to kiss her on the neck, face and arms.
She mentioned the timeline grew to become “very blurry and imprecise.”
However as a result of O’Marcaigh mentioned Diddy insisted on “Mr. Jones recording the whole lot,” Lil Rod obtained an audio recording of the alleged incident wherein O’Marcaigh believes Christian drugged and assaulted her. The recording was submitted as an exhibit in O’Marcaigh’s case.
In a transcript of the recording included within the criticism to explain the alleged incident, O’Marcaigh tries to depart however Christian doesn’t let her. She tells him to not contact her legs or bottom.
After she left , the criticism mentioned, Christian later discovered her and “demanded that she discover him a spot to sleep on the yacht” and he refused to return to shore.
O’Marcaigh went with him to the cinema, which was generally used as an additional sleeping space, and he allegedly blocked her from exiting. She described Christian getting “bodily and very aggressive,” cornering her and allegedly groping her regardless of her pushing again. He allegedly eliminated his garments, uncovered his erect penis and bodily tried to pressure her to carry out oral intercourse on him. She started combating him, after which one in all her colleagues entered the cinema, startling Christian and O’Marcaigh was in a position to depart.
She mentioned she was “significantly bruised on account of the assault,” that she didn’t consent to any of the sexual assault or misconduct, and that she was drugged and intoxicated by Christian. Pictures of her bruising had been additionally included within the criticism.
O’Marcaigh mentioned she complained to the yacht captain the subsequent morning however alleged that he “berated [her and] lacked compassion or concern, failed to analyze, and insisted that [she] was in all probability voluntarily partying with the company.” (She mentioned she was not.)
After the incident, O’Marcaigh mentioned that she was assigned to work within the entrance of the home, which required her to personally serve Christian Combs whereas he was aboard the yacht. She additionally alleged that the captain “acquired a beneficiant tip” from Diddy to hold him “quiet and from defending [O’Marcaigh] or taking motion on her behalf.”
She alleged that Diddy “fostered and inspired an setting of debauchery” and “didn’t have any safeguards in place to make sure there was no extreme drug use, no extreme consuming, and no importation of purported intercourse staff.”
“He deliberately created an unsafe setting that gave license to [Christian Combs] and his buddies to imagine that he was free to sexually assault [O’Marcaigh]” and allowed him and his buddies “to behave carelessly, as they noticed and mimicked his actions.”
O’Marcaigh mentioned that the alleged assault deeply impacted her psychological well being, in addition to her skilled and private life. She alleged that on account of the alleged assault, her psychological well being deteriorated, she skilled nervousness and panic assaults and had extreme suicidal ideations, the lawsuit mentioned. She claimed the emotional pressure additionally affected her bodily well being and he or she developed an consuming dysfunction and epileptic seizures following the incident.
