Nothing is going well for Sean Combs. The rapper, known notably as Puff Daddy, was targeted Wednesday by a new civil complaint accusing him of gang rape of a 17-year-old minor in 2003, the fourth accusation of sexual assault in three weeks for this hip-hop heavyweight.
The complaint accuses Sean Combs as well as the president of his production company Bad Boy Records, Harve Pierre, and a third individual, of having encouraged the teenager to follow them from Detroit, in the state of Michigan, to his studio to New York by private jet, where they allegedly forced her to drink and drugged her before forcing her to have sex. In the complaint, filed in New York on Wednesday, there are photos of the young girl, with her face blurred, in the production studios with Sean Combs.
The young woman marked “for life”
They “attacked a vulnerable teenager in the context of sex trafficking (…) and subjected her to gang rape. The depravity of these abominable acts has, unsurprisingly, scarred our client for life,” underlines the attorney for the anonymous plaintiff, Douglas H. Wigdor. The plaintiff is seeking financial compensation, without setting an amount.
In mid-November, Diddy’s former partner, R&B singer Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, was the first to file a civil complaint for rape and physical violence, relying on a law of the The State of New York which opened for one year the possibility for victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint even for acts which would be prescribed.
P. Diddy denies the facts
Two days later, Sean Combs and his ex-partner announced an “amicable” agreement, the details of which were not disclosed. But since then, two other women have filed complaints, including one, openly, accusing him of acts dating from 1992. At the time, the rapper would have “drugged, sexually assaulted and abused” her, a scene that he allegedly filmed and then threatened to distribute as “revenge porn”, the malicious disclosure of intimate images.
Sean Combs, rapper who became a billionaire businessman thanks to his production company and his investments in fashion and alcoholic beverages, has vigorously denied the accusations.