Vanity Fair: Another Woman Comes Forward, Accusing Diddy of Sexual Assault

Written by Dan Adler

In the previous month, shocking allegations were made by R&B singer Cassie regarding her relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs, whom she first met in 2005 when she was merely 19 years of age. She accused the hip-hop mogul, in a federal lawsuit, of intimidating her into a long-standing cycle of abuse, violence, including sex trafficking and rape towards the conclusion of their relationship in 2018.

Combs refuted these allegations and reached a settlement with Cassie the very next day. However, within the following days, he was sued by two more women accusing him of sexual assault. In another lawsuit, filed on Wednesday, another woman (who remained unnamed in the court documents) claimed she was raped in turns by Combs and two of his associates back in 2003, when she was just 17 and still in high school.

As per the lawsuit against Combs and two associates, the woman got acquainted with two associates of Combs - Harve Pierre, the ex-president of Combs's Bad Boy Entertainment, and an unnamed third man - at a lounge situated in Detroit area. Pierre had then introduced her to Combs, and Combs allegedly persuaded the woman to accompany him and the other men on a private jet to his studio in New York. It's alleged that the trio then supplied drugs and alcohol to the woman and proceeded to rape her. The woman allegedly woke up in Michigan after falling into a fetal position on a bathroom floor at the studio, according to the lawsuit.

According to the lawsuit, the accusations made by this woman (identified as Ms. Doe) were far more serious than the previous allegations made against Combs.

In a public statement on Wednesday, Combs wrote, “Enough is enough,” accusing never-named people of ruining his character, reputation and legacy. He charged them with making false allegations purely for financial gain and clarified that he has never engaged in any such malpractices as accused.

Like Cassie’s lawsuit, this new suit was filed by attorney Douglas Wigdor and included a trigger warning due to highly graphic content of a sexual nature. The earlier three lawsuits against Combs were filed under the Adult Survivors Act in New York which allows survivors a one-year window for filing civil complaints, regardless of the status of the statute of limitations. The window expired last month, triggering a surge of freshly lodged complaints against notable figures from the realms of acting, music, and politics. The recent lawsuit falls under New York City’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, providing an extended window from March 2023 to March 2025 for lodging civil complaints over sexual assault claims after the expiry of the statute of limitations.

According to the lawsuit, the woman was motivated to speak up after learning about Cassie’s lawsuit and another complaint against Pierre. (A former assistant last month accused Pierre of grooming and sexually assaulting her; Pierre has not yet reacted to these allegations.) “Seeing two other women bravely call out Mr. Combs and Mr. Pierre, respectively,” is what instilled the woman with the confidence to share her own narrative, stated the lawsuit.