By New York Post (U.S.) | Created at 2025-01-23 03:48:04 | Updated at 2025-01-23 07:05:39
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One of the dozens of women who have accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault claimed she was forced to fight for her life with a knife after she was allegedly gang-raped by the armed mogul and his entourage in 2018, according to a new interview.
Ashley Parham, who is suing Combs over the allegations, said in an interview on NewsNation’s “Banfield” that Combs, 55, and three other men raped her at a remote house in Orinda Hills, Calif. in 2018 — and that she considered slashing the disgraced mogul with a knife after the alleged horror.
“I hit him in the back with my left hand and he fell down on the stairs,” Parham said in the broadcast interview, using her real name but concealing her face for fear of retribution. “He was lying down on the stairs and he turned back and looked at me and I had the knife in both of my hands.”
“I was going to plunge the knife into him because it was a kill or be killed situation,” the accuser claimed before her “moral compass snapped back in” and she decided against using the weapon, she said.
According to Parham’s lawsuit — one of 22 that Combs now faces — the knife incident happened after she was allegedly raped by Diddy, his associate Shane Pearce, Pearce’s friend, and one of the rapper’s bodyguards.
“They took turns raping me, and Sean Combs raped me anally,” she alleged on NewsNation.
Parham said the alleged rape happened at the house owned by former Diddy chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, who she accused of witnessing and abetting, according to the interview.
Khorram allegedly attempted to “insert a copper IUD” into Parham’s vagina at the behest of Combs, she alleged.
“Luckily, it deployed before she could actually get it inside me, like inside the cervix,” Parham told NewsNation.
Combs is also alleged to have sexually violated Parham using a television remote control, according to the complaint.
“And that’s when Sean Combs got extremely angry, and he grabbed the TV remote and sexually assaulted me vaginally with the remote, extremely violently,” she told host Ashley Banfield.
The alleged victim told the outlet that Diddy became enraged when she told him she thought he was responsible for orchestrating the murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur.
Parham further claimed that Combs fired a gun at her after the rape and that she was forced to flee and call cops from a neighbor’s house.
But she returned to the scene of the alleged crime, which Banfield questioned.
“Why would you return to the scene of a gang rape, a shooting, a knifing, and a harrowing escape under gunfire after finding safety at a neighbor’s house where he offered to let you stay there? Why would you have returned to such a terrible scene?” Banfield asked in disbelief.
“I kind of just gave up on life. Honestly, if they had killed me that night, I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t have cared at that point,” Parham replied grimly.
Combs and his team denied the allegations.
“As the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department confirmed, her report was thoroughly investigated and it was determined the claims were unfounded,” Diddy’s legal team said in a statement to Page Six Wednesday.
“Mr. Combs will be able to establish with documentary proof that he was nowhere near Orinda, California on the day she claims she was assaulted,” the statement read.
“There is no evidence that Mr. Combs was ever even in the same room as Ms. Parham. She is completely unbelievable and no sane person who views the evidence will credit her story,” the statement concludes.
Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department confirmed that a report was filed on March 23, 2018, but “later determined the claims were unfounded,” according to the Mirror.
Parham’s lawyer claimed on NewsNation that the department has a pattern of dismissing sexual assault survivors’ accusations.
If you have been sexually assaulted and live in New York, you can call 1-800-942-6906 for free and confidential crisis counseling. If you live outside the state, you can dial the 24/7 National Sexual Assault hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
