A new lawsuit accuses hip-hop mogul Diddy of raping a 17-year-old. Here's the full complaint.
The same lawyers who sued the hip-hop mogul on behalf of his girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, filed a new lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York.
The same lawyers who represented R&B singer Cassie in her quickly settled lawsuit against hip-hop mogul Diddy have sued him again, this time on behalf of a woman who says he raped her in 2003 when she was 17.
Read the full complaint here against Diddy, legal name Sean Combs.
The 14-page complaint has a “trigger warning” on the front page, just like Cassie’s did. It was filed in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday.
“This is now the fifth lawsuit filed against Mr. Combs in the last three weeks. Incredibly, the allegations brought by Ms. Doe are in many ways even more egregious than those brought by his prior victims.”
“Unlike many victims who have come forward after decades, Ms. Doe can prove that she not only met Mr. Combs on the night in question, but was in his studio, in New York City, with him on that night. Remember when viewing these, Ms. Doe was 17 years old.”
The lawsuit also names as a defendant Harve Pierre, president of Diddy’s Bad Boy Entertainment. Bad Boy and Diddy’s Daddy’s House Recordings also are defendants. Pierre is accused of sexually assaulting the 17-year-old, too, as is a defendant identified only as the “third assailant.”
Here’s the full 14-page complaint from attorneys Douglas Wigdor, Meredith Firetog and Michael J. Willemin of Wigdor LLP in New York City.
Wigdor’s firm is experienced in sexual assault lawsuits against high-profile people, including movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
Wgidor said the lawsuit is being filed not under the New York state Adult Survivors Act that expired last month, but under New York City’s Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Protection Law.
“The relevant law is New York City’s Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Protection Law, NY Admin Code section 10-1101, et seq. The claim is timely pursuant to an amendment to that law that extends the statute of limitations on claims under the law to March 1, 2025,” Wigdor told me in an email.
Wigdor said in a press release, “As alleged in the complaint, Defendants preyed on a vulnerable high school teenager as part of a sex trafficking scheme that involved plying her with drugs and alcohol and transporting her by private jet to New York City where she was gang raped by the three individual defendants at Mr. Combs’ studio. The depravity of these abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our client for life.”
Diddy released a statement in ALL CAPS.
“LET ME BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: I DID NOT DO ANY OF THE AWFUL THINGS BEING ALLEGED. I WILL FIGHT FOR MY NAME, MY FAMILY AND FOR THE TRUTH.”
Here’s the lawsuit filed last month against Diddy and singer Aaron Hall over an alleged sex assault in 1990.
The lawyer is Tyrone Blackburn, who also represents the woman suing Nicki Minaj's husband, Kenneth Petty, for rape.
Here’s the other lawsuit filed against Diddy on Thanksgiving. It accuses him of raping Joi Dickerson when she was a student at Syracuse University in 1991.
I discussed Cassie’s lawsuit settlement against Diddy on LiveNOW from Fox shortly after it happened. Cassie met Diddy when she was 19 and he was 37, and they were together for 14 years.
You can track the new lawsuit through Courtlistener.
Meanwhile, I’ve been streaming the YSL / Young Thug RICO trial on my YouTube channel. Here’s today’s testimony. If you click into YouTube, you’ll see all the exams time-stamped indexed in the description.
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