By The Independent (World News) | Created at 2024-09-27 16:00:22 | Updated at 2024-09-30 07:31:26
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Over the course of four years, entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly drugged, raped, and physically abused a woman who claims she more than once woke up in Combs’ bed, badly injured, after blacking out the night before — with no memory of what had happened.
That’s according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court and reported first by The Independent. The accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, says in the suit that she met Diddy in the fall of 2020 “at an overseas location.” Diddy paid for the woman to be there, and the two began seeing each other “regularly” after that, according to the suit.
Throughout 2021 and 2022, Diddy would fly Doe to his homes in Los Angeles, New York, and Miami, using “coercive and harassing language to compel her to comply,” the lawsuit states. “Defendant Combs and his agents and employees not only used language and tactics to force Jane Doe to act against her will: she was also unwillingly drugged with alcohol unknown substances.”
In spring 2022, Doe visited Diddy at his home in Miami, the suit goes on.
“On one morning she woke up and her feet were purple and bruised and she had a bite mark on her heel,” it says. “Jane Doe did not know how she sustained the injuries.”
Diddy would often pressure Doe into “adding other men and women into the bedroom despite... Doe being clear that she did not want others involved,” the suit continues, adding, ”On occasions, Jane Doe was forced to witness Defendant Combs slap and abuse other women.”
It says Diddy made “threatening ‘jokes’” to Doe that made her fearful for her safety if she did not comply with his demands. He monitored her phone, tracked her location, and recorded them having sex, without Doe’s permission, the lawsuit alleges. Diddy also “discourage[d] [Doe] from working,” instead paying her an allowance “which he used to control her.”
“Jane Doe was afraid of what Defendant Combs would do if she said no,” the lawsuit states.
Attorney Marc Agnifilo, who is now helping Combs fight federal sex trafficking charges, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
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