Solely every week after settling a sexual assault lawsuit with ex-partner Casandra Ventura, aka Cassie, Sean Diddy Combs is dealing with two new lawsuits for sexual assault and revenge porn, alongside musician Aaron Corridor.
Joi Dickerson-Neal — who was a Syracuse College pupil in 1991 when she featured in a music video for Diddy — has filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that Combs ‘drugged and bodily assaulted her,’ filming the incident and sharing it with others in an act described as ‘revenge porn.’
Dickerson-Neal alleges Combs’ assault and subsequent distribution of the video prompted her to be hospitalized with melancholy, and inflicted ‘substantial and lifelong accidents.’ In line with particulars reported by The Guardian, the plaintiff alleges Combs invited her to dinner in New York, the place he drugged her and proceeded to sexually assault her. The submitting states, “As a result of she had been drugged, Plaintiff lacked the bodily capability or psychological capability to fend Combs off.”
A consultant for Combs says Dickerson-Neal’s claims are ‘made up and never credible — purely a cash seize.’
Attorneys for Dickerson-Neal say the plaintiff determined to return ahead together with her harrowing expertise with Combs after Cassie got here forth with hers. Cassie had alleged the rapper stored her locked in a cycle of bodily violence, abuse, and ‘intercourse trafficking’ for a decade. Combs settled out of courtroom at some point after the submitting.
On the time, Combs’ legal professional, Ben Brafman, vehemently denied the allegations and emphasised that Combs’ choice to settle ‘is by no means an admission of wrongdoing’ and doesn’t ‘in any method undermine his’ consumer’s ‘flat-out denial of the claims.’
In a disturbing flip of occasions, Cassie and Dickerson-Neal’s lawsuits aren’t the one sexual abuse claims in opposition to Combs. Rolling Stone can also be reporting a 3rd swimsuit by a Jane Doe, who’s alleging that Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Corridor ‘took turns raping the plaintiff and her buddy in 1990 or 1991.’
Jane Doe alleges she and her buddy bumped into Combs and Corridor at an occasion by MCA Information on the firm’s New York Places of work. “Combs and Corridor have been very flirtatious and handsy with Jane Doe and her buddy, providing them drinks all through the evening.”
Combs and Corridor then proceeded to allegedly invite the ladies to Corridor’s residence, the place ‘Jane Doe was supplied extra drinks and was coerced into having intercourse with Combs,’ the submitting provides. “After Combs completed doing his enterprise, Jane Doe lay in mattress, shocked and traumatized. As she was within the strategy of getting dressed, Corridor barged into the room, pinned her down, and compelled Jane Doe to have intercourse with him.”
The lawsuit additionally particulars that later, Combs allegedly visited the house the place Jane Doe and her buddy have been staying. “He was irate and started assaulting and choking Jane Doe to the purpose that she handed out,” the criticism alleges. Jane Doe says she sought medical therapy ‘to heal from the trauma.’
The submitting names Sean Diddy Combs, Aaron Corridor, MCA Music Leisure, and Geffen Information as defendants. The ‘buddy’ will not be a plaintiff in Jane Doe’s swimsuit.
The three lawsuits in opposition to Combs emerged proper earlier than the deadline of the New York’s Grownup Survivors Act. The Act expired at midnight on Thanksgiving, which is why a barrage of comparable lawsuits have surfaced over the last a number of weeks.
A mess of musicians and Hollywood celebrities have been named in sexual assault, abuse, and harassment claims. Amongst them are Cuba Gooding Jr, Jamie Foxx, Russell Model, Jason Derulo, Axl Rose, Jimmy Lovine, Broadway legend William Ivey Lengthy, Antonio Reid (L.A. Reid), Grammy’s ex-CEO Neil Portnow, and Invoice Cosby.
The Grownup Survivors Act, handed in 2020, created a one-year window for alleged survivors to take authorized motion over years-old accusations — that will usually be barred below the statute of limitations.
State senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins stated on passing the Act, “It takes time to return ahead, significantly when confronted with the trauma that accompanies disclosures. With the Grownup Survivors Act, we’re saying that we imagine you and that you simply deserve accountability.”