A former mannequin filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing the hip-hop mogul Sean Combs of forcing her to carry out oral intercourse on him at his New York Metropolis recording studio in 2003.
Within the criticism, Crystal McKinney says that when she was 22, an unnamed clothier invited her to attend a Males’s Trend Week occasion at a restaurant in Manhattan, the place she met Mr. Combs, who was a widely known document label impresario and host of the MTV actuality present “Making the Band.”
Later that night time, in accordance with the lawsuit, Mr. Combs invited her to his recording studio, the place Ms. McKinney says she was given alcohol and marijuana that she later got here to consider was laced. She says Mr. Combs led her to the lavatory, shoved her head all the way down to his crotch and, after she refused, pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him. Quickly after, the lawsuit says, she misplaced consciousness, later awakening in a cab and realizing that she had been sexually assaulted.
Representatives for Mr. Combs didn’t instantly reply to requests for touch upon the lawsuit.
Mr. Combs, 54, has been going through deepening authorized troubles since his former girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, often called Cassie, filed a lawsuit in opposition to him final yr wherein she accused him of sexually and bodily abusing her for years. The lawsuit was settled in in the future, however three extra fits adopted from ladies who accused him of rape. In March, two of Mr. Combs’s properties have been raided as a part of an investigation that officers mentioned is at the least partly a human trafficking inquiry.
The producer and businessman, who is named Puff Daddy and Diddy, has known as the allegations in opposition to him false and “sickening,” and he has described the plaintiffs as in search of “a fast payday.”
Mr. Combs’s conduct has come underneath intense scrutiny in current days after CNN revealed footage from 2016 wherein he’s seen placing, kicking and dragging Ms. Ventura, corroborating a part of her lawsuit filed final yr. On Sunday, he apologized, saying in a video posted to Instagram, “My habits on that video is inexcusable.”
Ms. McKinney, who filed her lawsuit in Federal District Court docket in Manhattan, mentioned studying of the opposite lawsuits in opposition to Mr. Combs led her to file her personal. As a result of the allegations are greater than 20 years outdated, which is exterior the statute of limitations, the lawsuit is bringing the declare underneath New York Metropolis’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, which, for a restricted time period, permits accusers to file civil complaints involving claims after the statute of limitations has run out.
A lawyer representing Mr. Combs, Jonathan Davis, argued in a separate assault lawsuit that the gender violence act shouldn’t be used to permit such fits to go ahead as a result of one other state regulation particularly extending the statute of limitations for sexual assault had expired.
