Diddy’s dealing with a brand new New York lawsuit from a girl who says a pretend journey dwelling became a rape when she was 16.
Diddy is catching instances on each coasts now, and the most recent one out of New York reads like one thing that’d maintain you up at night time.
A lady submitting as Jane Doe sued Sean Combs in Manhattan beneath New York Metropolis’s Gender Motivated Violence Safety Act, alleging he drugged and raped her in the summertime of 2000 when she was a 16-year-old strolling dwelling in decrease Manhattan.
The go well with names Dangerous Boy Leisure, Dangerous Boy Information and Combs Enterprises as co-defendants alongside two unnamed John Does alleged to have been Diddy’s workers that night time.
The girl says she was strolling dwelling when Diddy, sitting in an SUV with two males, began speaking to her and pushing a journey she didn’t ask for.
She stated not more than as soon as and finally obtained in, anticipating to be dropped off at her constructing across the nook. As a substitute, the driving force saved going previous her cease, and Diddy handed her a drink to calm her down, after which she says she felt groggy and unable to withstand.
Court docket papers say he then took her to a separate location the place he raped her, and he or she was later dropped off alone within the foyer of her constructing.
Lawyer Michael F. Rubin filed a request to let her proceed as Jane Doe, arguing the case entails little one intercourse abuse and legit considerations about public publicity. He wrote that Doe isn’t hiding from Diddy and her identification may be shared along with his protection throughout discovery.
In keeping with the criticism, Doe filed an identical case in 2025 that was later dropped with out prejudice, which is why this refiling falls inside the GVM legislation’s prolonged window, which runs by July 29, 2027.
The New York submitting hit days after a male former little one actor filed a separate lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, accusing Diddy of sexually assaulting him at a Hollywood Hills networking occasion in 2007 when he was a minor.
In that go well with, the plaintiff says Diddy lured him to a again room beneath the guise of profession recommendation, gave him alcohol and assaulted him. Diddy’s rep, Juda Engelmayer, denied these claims to TMZ, calling them “false and ridiculous” and accusing the accuser of making an attempt to get in on a “cash gravy prepare.”
Dangerous Boy Information and Combs Enterprises are each accused of negligent retention and negligent supervision within the Jane Doe criticism, with the go well with alleging the businesses “had precise and/or constructive discover” of prior sexual abuse claims in opposition to Diddy and saved him in place anyway.
That’s a major company legal responsibility angle that might value the defendants effectively past no matter damages Doe is looking for.
AllHipHop has been following Diddy’s mounting civil publicity from jail, the place he’s serving a 50-month federal sentence after his 2025 conviction on two prostitution-related transport counts.
Doe is looking for compensatory damages, punitive damages, authorized charges and a jury trial.
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