By Jake Offenhartz, The Related Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Two extra girls have come ahead to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual abuse, one week after the music mogul settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and bodily abuse.
Each of the brand new fits have been filed Nov. 23 on the eve of the expiration of the Grownup Survivors Act, a New York regulation allowing victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil motion whatever the statute of limitations.
The filings element acts of sexual assault, beatings and compelled drugging allegedly dedicated within the early Nineties by Combs, then a expertise director, occasion promoter and rising determine in New York Metropolis’s hip-hop neighborhood.
One of many accusers, Joi Dickerson, stated she was a 19-year-old pupil at Syracuse College when she agreed to satisfy Combs at a restaurant in Harlem in 1991. After their date, Combs “deliberately drugged” her, then introduced her dwelling and sexually assaulted her, in line with the submitting.
With out her data, Combs videotaped the assault and later shared it with a number of associates within the music business, the swimsuit alleges. The general public publicity despatched Dickerson right into a “tailspin,” contributing to extreme despair that landed her within the hospital and compelled her to drop out of faculty.
In a separate lawsuit filed Nov. 23, an unnamed lady accused Combs and an R&B singer, Aaron Corridor, of sexually assaulting her and a good friend, then beating her a number of days later.
The lady — recognized solely as Jane Doe — stated that she and her roommate returned to Corridor’s dwelling with him and Combs after a music business occasion in 1990 or 1991. The accuser stated she was coerced into having intercourse with Combs. Afterward, as she was getting dressed, “Corridor barged into the room, pinned her down and compelled Jane Doe to have intercourse with him,” the swimsuit states.
When the sufferer later spoke to her good friend, who can also be not named, she discovered that her good friend “had been compelled to have intercourse with Combs and Corridor in one other room,” in line with the swimsuit. “Upon data and perception, when Combs completed with Jane Doe, he and Corridor switched, they usually commenced assaulting Jane Doe’s good friend,” the swimsuit states.
Just a few days later, an “irate” Combs allegedly confirmed up on the dwelling of the 2 girls in an try and cease them from talking out concerning the abuse. He then choked the lady recognized as Jane Doe till she handed out, the swimsuit states.
In an emailed assertion, a spokesperson for Combs denied the allegations, accusing the 2 girls of searching for to use the New York regulation that quickly prolonged the statute of limitations.
An electronic mail inquiry to Corridor was not returned.
Tyrone Blackburn, an lawyer for the unnamed accuser, stated his shopper was within the technique of securing medical paperwork and witness statements to assist her swimsuit, which was filed late Nov. 23 “in an effort to protect the statute of limitations.”
The swimsuit introduced by Dickerson notes that the sufferer filed police studies in New York and New Jersey after the abuse. Inquiries to the New York Metropolis Police Division weren’t instantly returned. It was not clear which different jurisdictions the studies might have been filed.
After the filmed assault, Dickerson stated she approached associates within the music business asking them to substantiate the existence of the “revenge porn” tape, however was rebuffed by those that have been “terrified that Combs would retaliate in opposition to them and that they might lose future enterprise and music alternatives.”
The Related Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as Dickerson has executed.
In years after the alleged assaults, Combs, now 54, would discovered his personal label, Unhealthy Boys Data, serving to to provide Mary J. Blige and Biggie Smalls on his strategy to changing into one of the vital influential hip-hop producers and executives within the style’s historical past.
The pair of lawsuits comply with a separate set of explosive allegations made final week by Cassie Ventura, who stated that Combs subjected her to a sample of abuse throughout their years lengthy relationship, which started in 2005, when she was 19 and he was 37.
Among the many allegations, Ventura stated Combs plied her with medication, subjected her to “savage” beatings, and compelled her to have intercourse with male prostitutes whereas he masturbated and filmed them. When she tried to finish the connection in 2018, Combs raped her, she alleged.
The lawsuit was settled sooner or later after it was filed for an undisclosed sum.
In a press release shared by her legal professionals, Ventura stated she wished to resolve this matter “on phrases that I’ve some degree of management.”
Combs stated: “We’ve determined to resolve this matter amicably. I want Cassie and her household all the very best. Love.”
