(New York) Rapper Sean Combs, aka Diddy or Puff Daddy, was targeted Wednesday by a new civil complaint accusing him of gang rape of a 17-year-old minor in 2003, the fourth accusation of sexual assault in three weeks for this hip-hop heavyweight.
The complaint accuses Sean Combs as well as the president of his production company Bad Boy Records, Harve Pierre, and a third individual, of having incited the teenager to follow them from Detroit, in the state of Michigan, to his studio to New York by private jet, where they allegedly forced her to drink and drugged her before forcing her to have sex.
In the complaint, filed in New York on Wednesday, there are photos of the young girl, with her face blurred, in the production studios with Sean Combs.
“(They) preyed on a vulnerable teenage girl in sex trafficking […] and subjected him to gang rape. The depravity of these abominable acts has, unsurprisingly, scarred our client for life,” underlines the attorney for the anonymous plaintiff, Douglas H. Wigdor.
The plaintiff is seeking financial compensation, without setting an amount.
In mid-November, Diddy’s former partner, R&B singer Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, was the first to file a civil complaint for rape and physical violence, relying on a law of the State of New York which opened for one year the possibility for victims of sexual violence to file a civil complaint even for facts which would be prescribed.
Two days later, Sean Combs and his ex-partner announced an “amicable” agreement, the details of which were not disclosed. But since then, two other women have filed complaints, including one, openly, accusing him of facts dating from 1992: the rapper allegedly “drugged, sexually assaulted and abused” her, a scene he allegedly filmed and then threatened to broadcast it as “ revenge porn », the malicious disclosure of intimate images.
Sean Combs, rapper who became a billionaire businessman thanks to his production company and his investments in fashion and alcoholic beverages, has vigorously denied the accusations.
His lawyer did not immediately respond to AFP on Wednesday after the announcement of this new complaint.