As closing arguments received underneath manner within the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, the music mogul and his son Justin Combs have been hit with a brand new lawsuit, accusing them of a “brutal gang-rape” in 2017.
Within the swimsuit filed in a Los Angeles courtroom on Monday, a girl alleges that Justin Combs used his father’s celeb standing to “lure [the] plaintiff, a younger feminine, from Louisiana to Los Angeles the place she was actually held prisoner for a weekend and repeatedly raped” by the pair and two different masked males, in keeping with the criticism.
The lawsuit comes amid the ultimate part of the seven-week trial for Combs, and on the day the mogul’s son Christian, who raps as King Combs, launched a seven-song album – together with one referred to as Diddy Free – on streaming providers. The album, By no means Cease, credit King Combs, 27, because the lyricist, and Ye, previously referred to as Kanye West, as a producer.
Prosecutors have accused Sean Combs, the founding father of Unhealthy Boy Information, of working a felony enterprise that engaged in intercourse trafficking, drug distribution, kidnapping, compelled labor, arson and bribery, and coercing girls, together with his former accomplice singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, into taking part in drug-fueled intercourse marathons.
Combs’s authorized troubles kicked off in late 2023 when Ventura filed a lawsuit accusing him of rape and extreme bodily abuse over the course of a decade, and mentioned he used his energy and standing to maintain her trapped within the relationship. The lawsuit was settled the next day for $20m, however Combs quickly confronted dozens of lawsuits from others accusing him of sexual and bodily abuse.
This week’s lawsuit claims that in 2017 Justin Combs, 31, lured the alleged sufferer, an “achieved, degreed skilled”, to Los Angeles with the potential for a job, promising to make use of his father’s connections. She was, the swimsuit alleges, flown to Los Angeles and brought to a high-end Beverly Hills property the place she was ultimately drugged and repeatedly raped by Justin Combs and his father and two “unknown, masked” males over the course of a weekend.
Justin Combs allegedly held the potential job “over [the] plaintiff’s head” in addition to “risque” images she had despatched him.
The swimsuit accuses Sean Combs of a “pervasive historical past of sexual assault and violence”.
“The conduct described herein is strikingly much like how [the] defendant Sean Combs and his entourage carried out themselves for a few years, and it seems that Combs’s penchant for sexual violence is shared by his son,” the swimsuit states.
The lady is looking for compensatory and punitive damages for the assault, which, in keeping with the swimsuit, left her with “extreme emotional misery, emotional anguish, concern, anxiousness, humiliation, embarrassment, bodily harm, emotional harm and trauma”.
In an announcement to media, Combs’s authorized staff denied the allegations, stating that “anybody can file a lawsuit for any purpose”.
The assertion mentioned: “Irrespective of what number of lawsuits are filed it gained’t change the truth that Mr Combs has by no means sexually assaulted or intercourse trafficked anybody – man or lady, grownup or minor.”
