Two more women have reportedly filed lawsuits against Sean Combs, the rapper and producer known as Diddy, Puff Daddy and P. Diddy.
After reaching an agreement with his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, for her to drop a rape and assault case, the artist was the subject of a new lawsuit on Wednesday (11/22), filed in New York Superior Court York. Joi Dickerson-Neal, who claims the rapper and music mogul drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991 and later engaged in “revenge porn.” She claims she was left with “substantial and permanent injuries.”
Dickerson-Neal was a college student at the time the abuse allegedly occurred. She appeared briefly in one of the rapper’s music videos and says that after they went to dinner, she was “intentionally drugged,” leaving her “in a physical state where she was unable to stand or walk independently,” according to the accusation. her and she ended up raped. “Because she was high on drugs, plaintiff lacked the physical or mental ability to drive Combs away,” the lawsuit claims.
An unidentified woman also filed a lawsuit in New York on Thursday (11/23), alleging that Diddy and a second man took turns raping her and a friend in 1990, and that he physically assaulted her again days later .
A spokesperson for Combs told news outlets that the allegations are “made up and lack credibility” and made “purely to make money.” “This last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be overturned,” the spokesperson concluded.
Both lawsuits fall under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provides a one-year period for sexual assault plaintiffs to file civil suits, regardless of the statute of limitations. In the final months of the window, which closed on Thursday (11/23), several celebrities have been the target of sexual assault lawsuits, including singer Axl Rose and actors Jamie Foxx, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Sebastian Chacon.
Source: Terra
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