{"id":33504,"date":"2023-12-09T19:40:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/diddy-accused-in-gang-rape-of-teenager-in-new-york-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T19:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T19:40:13","slug":"diddy-accused-in-gang-rape-of-teenager-in-new-york-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/diddy-accused-in-gang-rape-of-teenager-in-new-york-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy accused in gang-rape of teenager in New York | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hip-hop star Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs was accused in federal court on Wednesday of taking part in the gang rape of a 17-year-old girl in his Manhattan recording studio in 2003, marking the fourth lawsuit levelling sexual assault allegations against him in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

Combs, 54, founder of the landmark label Bad Boy Records and a hugely successful rap performer, issued a statement on Wednesday categorically professing his innocence and declaring his accusers were \u201clooking for a quick payday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The plaintiff in the latest lawsuit was identified as Jane Doe, described as a high school student at the time she met associates of Combs in a Detroit-area lounge 20 years ago. The complaint says they flew her on a private jet from Michigan to the New York area, then drove her to the New York City studio where Combs and two other men plied her with drugs and alcohol.<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff was then raped in a bathroom of the studio by Combs and the two other men, one after the other, as she slipped in and out of consciousness. It said Combs also watched one of the other assaults after he was finished. She was later flown back to Michigan but had little recollection of her return trip to the Detroit suburbs, the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

As evidence to support her allegations, the lawsuit includes several photos allegedly depicting the accuser – her face intentionally blurred – posing inside Combs\u2019 studio, including one in which she appears to be sitting on Combs’ lap, both of them facing the camera.<\/p>\n

The complaint, filed in US District Court in Manhattan, said the plaintiff has since suffered \u201cextreme emotional distress that has impacted nearly every aspect of her life and personal relationships.\u201d The lawsuit was filed under New York City\u2019s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law, which was extended to allow accusers to sue over alleged offenses from long ago, even if statutes of limitations have expired.<\/p>\n

Combs\u2019 latest accuser said she chose to come forward after reading news accounts of the lawsuit brought against Combs last month by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who performs under the stage name Cassie, accusing him of subjecting her to physical abuse, sex trafficking and rape over a decade.<\/p>\n

Ventura and Combs, who has formerly gone by such monikers as P. Diddy,\u201c Puff Daddy and Diddy, announced the next day they had settled the case under confidential terms. Combs\u2019 lawyer, Ben Brafman, said then that the settlement was \u201cin no way an admission of wrongdoing,\u201d and that his client maintained his \u201cflat-out denial\u201d of Ventura\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

But Combs was hit with two more lawsuits in a matter of days – one by a plaintiff named Joi Dickerson-Neal, who accused the rap mogul of drugging and sexually assaulting her while she was a student at Syracuse University in 1991. Another \u201cJane Doe\u201d complaint accused him of forcing her and a friend into nonconsensual sex in the early 1990s. He has denied those allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character,\u201d he wrote in his social media post on Wednesday. \u201cLet me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the two other men alleged to have raped the plaintiff in Wednesday\u2019s lawsuit was named in the complaint as Harve Pierre, a former top executive at Bad Boy. The third man was identified in the complaint only as the \u201cThird Assailant.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierre himself was accused in a separate lawsuit last month of using his position of authority at Bad Boy to groom and sexually assault a former assistant. Neither Pierre nor any representatives could be reached for comment. A spokesperson for Bad Boy told People magazine last month the record label was \u201cinvestigating the allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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