NEW YORK (AP) — A former type accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting her at his New York City recording studio in 2003 in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the newest in a chain of allegations towards the embattled hip-hop multi-millionaire.
Crystal McKinney stated she was once a a hit 22-year-old type when she met Combs at a cafe all the way through Men’s Fashion Week in Manhattan. Combs invited her to his recording studio later that evening, consistent with the federal grievance filed in New York City.
The lawsuit alleges that McKinney arrived to seek out Combs consuming and smoking joints with a number of different males. She smoked some marijuana, which she “later came to understand” was once laced with a narcotic or intoxicating substance, the lawsuit says. She felt as regardless that she was once floating. Combs led her to the toilet, the place the sexual assault came about, consistent with the lawsuit.
Combs led her again to the studio and he or she misplaced awareness, the lawsuit says. She later woke up in a taxi and learned that she have been sexually assaulted, consistent with the lawsuit.
Combs’ representatives didn’t in an instant respond to an e-mail looking for remark.
The Associated Press does now not normally title individuals who say they have got been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as McKinney has carried out.
The lawsuit was once filed days after CNN aired safety video that presentations Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles lodge hallway in 2016. Combs on Sunday launched a video admitting he attacked Cassie in the lodge hallway, announcing he was once “truly sorry” and his movements have been “inexcusable.”
Combs isn’t in threat of being criminally prosecuted for the thrashing as a result of of the statute of barriers.
A lawsuit filed by means of Cassie in November alleging beatings and abuse was once settled an afternoon after it was once filed. But it spurred intense scrutiny of Combs, with a number of extra complaints filed in the next months, together with a federal felony sex-trafficking investigation that led government to raid Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
The declare on Tuesday was once filed below a New York City legislation that permits accusers to document civil litigation all the way through a restricted window despite the fact that the occasions allegedly took place way back.