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A former mannequin filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs of forcing her to carry out oral intercourse on him at his New York City recording studio in 2003.
In the grievance, Crystal McKinney says that when she was 22, an unnamed clothier invited her to attend a Men’s Fashion Week occasion at a restaurant in Manhattan, the place she met Mr. Combs, who was a well known document label impresario and host of the MTV actuality present “Making the Band.”
Later that night time, in response to the lawsuit, Mr. Combs invited her to his recording studio, the place Ms. McKinney says she was given alcohol and marijuana that she later got here to consider was laced. She says Mr. Combs led her to the lavatory, shoved her head all the way down to his crotch and, after she refused, compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on him. Soon after, the lawsuit says, she misplaced consciousness, later awakening in a cab and realizing that she had been sexually assaulted.
Representatives for Mr. Combs didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon the lawsuit.
Mr. Combs, 54, has been dealing with deepening authorized troubles since his former girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, referred to as Cassie, filed a lawsuit in opposition to him final 12 months through which she accused him of sexually and bodily abusing her for years. The lawsuit was settled in in the future, however three extra fits adopted from girls who accused him of rape. In March, two of Mr. Combs’s properties had been raided as a part of an investigation that officers mentioned is not less than partially a human trafficking inquiry.
The producer and businessman, who is called Puff Daddy and Diddy, has known as the allegations in opposition to him false and “sickening,” and he has described the plaintiffs as on the lookout for “a fast payday.”
Mr. Combs’s conduct has come underneath intense scrutiny in latest days after CNN revealed footage from 2016 through which he’s seen putting, kicking and dragging Ms. Ventura, corroborating a part of her lawsuit filed final 12 months. On Sunday, he apologized, saying in a video posted to Instagram, “My habits on that video is inexcusable.”
Ms. McKinney, who filed her lawsuit in Federal District Court in Manhattan, mentioned studying of the opposite lawsuits in opposition to Mr. Combs led her to file her personal. Because the allegations are greater than 20 years outdated, which is exterior the statute of limitations, the lawsuit is bringing the declare underneath New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, which, for a restricted time frame, permits accusers to file civil complaints involving claims after the statute of limitations has run out.
A lawyer representing Mr. Combs, Jonathan Davis, argued in a separate assault lawsuit that the gender violence act shouldn’t be used to permit such fits to go ahead as a result of one other state legislation particularly extending the statute of limitations for sexual assault had expired.
