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A new accuser has filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs alleging that the musician drugged and sexually assaulted her at his New York City recording studio in 2003.
Model Crystal McKinney presented the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in New York City. She said she was 22 when she met Combs, 12 years her senior, at a Men’s Fashion Week event in Manhattan, People magazine reported.
Combs, 54, has already been accused of a series of abuses by several different victims, with accusations including gang rape, sex trafficking, and physical and sexual abuse.
McKinney’s lawsuit is the seventh in which Combs has been named in recent months.
He said he met Combs through a designer, whose name is not listed in the lawsuit. At the Fashion Week event, the lawsuit says McKinney “felt little control over the events while she was told what to do and paraded around for other attendees.”
McKinney said she sat across from Combs, who told her that she was “going to make it someday” and that he had the industry connections to make it happen. She claimed Combs behaved in a “sexually suggestive manner” throughout the event. Combs and McKinney exchanged phone numbers.
McKinney alleged that Combs invited her to his studio, where one of his associates gave her marijuana. McKinney said he later learned that Combs had “mixed the joint with a narcotic or other intoxicating substance.”
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After smoking the joint and drinking alcohol, things the lawsuit says Combs pressured her to do, McKinney said she became severely intoxicated.
She alleged that Combs took her to a bathroom where he forced her to perform oral sex on him.
After returning to the studio, McKinney said she blacked out and woke up in a taxi, where she realized she had been assaulted.
Representatives for Combs have not commented publicly on the new lawsuit filed by McKinney.
In March, Homeland Security agents raided Combs’ Los Angeles home as part of a federal sex trafficking investigation. He has not been formally charged with any crime.
Last week, disturbing video emerged of the hip-hop mogul violently attacking singer and ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016.
In November 2023, Ventura sued Combs for rape and sex trafficking that allegedly lasted more than a decade. Combs reached a private agreement with Ventura, although his attorneys said the agreement was in no way an admission of guilt.
After the hotel video was released, Combs publicly apologized and said in a video that he was “truly sorry” and that his actions were “inexcusable.” He claimed that he has since sought therapy and entered rehab.
Prior to the apology, Combs had denied all allegations of misconduct and illegal behavior and had promised to clear his name.
In addition to the sexual assault and drugs, McKinney claimed that Combs “erased” her modeling career. She said she “blamed herself” for the assault and attempted suicide in 2004.
She is seeking unspecified damages for pain and suffering, as well as punitive damages. She has asked for a jury trial.
The lawsuit names Combs, as well as his companies Bad Boy Records and Bad Boy Entertainment, Sean John Clothing and Universal Music Group.
Several women and one man have already filed sexual assault and harassment lawsuits against Combs. Of the seven lawsuits against Combs, only Ventura’s has been resolved. One of the lawsuits named Combs as a defendant, but raised allegations of sexual assault against his son, Christian “King” Combs.
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