Sean “Diddy” Combs has released a statement today, denying a new lawsuit accusing him of sexually raping a 17-year-old student in 2003, along with two other men.
The woman, identified as Jane Doe in the legal documents filed on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan, New York, alleges she was just a high school student when she was “gang raped” and “sex trafficked” by Combs.
Combs vehemently denied the allegations in a statement, saying they came from someone “looking for a quick payday.”
“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,” Combs said in the statement posted to X, formerly known as Twitter.
— LOVE (@Diddy) December 6, 2023
The plaintiff says she was in a lounge in Detroit, Michigan, in 2003 when former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre approached her and told her he was “best friends” with Combs. He then called Combs to back up his story before convincing her to join him on a private jet to Daddy’s House Recording Studio, owned and operated by Diddy. Before
Pierre then “directed” Doe to go to a bathroom with him in the lounge, where Pierre allegedly smoked crack cocaine and later “forced” her to perform oral sex on him. At the studio, the woman says she was
“plied Ms Doe with drugs and alcohol,” by Combs, Pierre and a third male.
“[The] 17-year old Ms Doe became more and more inebriated, eventually to the point that she could not possibly have consented to having sex with anyone, much less someone twice her age,” the filing read.
Later, she says she was directed to accompany Combs to a bathroom at the studio, where he then allegedly “removed” her skirt and underwear and raped her while she was “in and out of consciousness” during the alleged assault. She says at one point, she regained consciousness to find a third man sexually assaulting her as Combs watched from a chair outside the bathroom as she pleaded with them to stop.
After the alleged assault, Doe says she was escorted out of the building and helped to a car as “she could barely stand up following the gang rape,” and flown back to Michigan.
The court document also shows several images of the woman, with her face blurred, and another shows the woman sitting on Combs’s lap. He was 34 at the time.
Combs and Pierre “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,” attorney Douglas H. Wigdor, who represents Doe, said in a statement. “The depravity of these abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our client for life.”
On Nov. 16, Combs was sued by his ex-girlfriend and former Bad Boy artist, Cassie Ventura, in federal court. Ventura accused him of rape and repeated physical assault and sex trafficking. Despite denying the allegations, Combs settled the lawsuit within 24 hours. Less than a week later, Joi Dickerson-Neal accused Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1991 while she was a college student. Dickerson-Neal alleges that he filmed the attack and showed the footage to individuals in the industry. The following day, on Nov. 24., Rolling Stone reported that an unidentified woman had filed a third lawsuit, accusing Combs and singer Aaron Hall of raping her and her friend.
Combs denies all allegations against him.
