An 11th accuser comes forward as jailed ‘Diddy’ awaits trial

Hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is presently in federal custody awaiting trial on prices of racketeering and intercourse trafficking.

His arrest final week in New York comes amid a collection of civil fits alleging sexual assault and bodily violence, some going again to the Nineteen Nineties.

The eleventh and newest accuser to return ahead, Thalia Graves, claims Combs and his bodyguard drugged, certain and raped her in 2001, and filmed the incident.

The Harlem-born rapper has denied legal wrongdoing.

Combs, 54, was arrested on Monday 16 September in a New York lodge on prices of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive and transportation for functions of prostitution.

Federal prosecutors have accused him of “making a legal enterprise” wherein he “abused, threatened, and coerced girls and others round him to fulfil his sexual needs, defend his repute, and conceal his conduct”.

They mentioned Combs had used medication, violence and the ability of his standing to “lure feminine victims” into prolonged intercourse acts known as “Freak Offs”.

Additionally they revealed they’d uncovered firearms, ammunition and greater than 1,000 bottles of lubricant throughout raids on Combs’s houses in Miami and Los Angeles in March.

Prosecutors have reportedly been in contact with a number of witnesses who labored beneath Combs and a few of the accusers presently suing him, and have left open the potential of extra prices.

The singer-producer has pleaded not responsible to the three felony counts in opposition to him and his lawyer informed reporters he was a “fighter” who was “not afraid of the costs”.

Combs is presently being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, a federal jail infamous for its violence and poor inmate care.

MDC consists of an extra-security part with barracks-style housing reserved for particular detainees, and US media report that Combs is sharing the house with convicted cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

His authorized workforce sought his launch pending trial due to the jail’s “horrific” circumstances, however prosecutors argued he posed “a critical flight threat” and Combs has twice been denied bail.

If convicted, he faces a sentence of wherever from 15 years to life in jail.

Combs’s former on-and-off girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, was first to blow the whistle on the self-proclaimed “unhealthy boy for all times”.

In a lawsuit filed final November, the mannequin and musician alleged he had “trapped” her for over a decade in a “cycle of abuse, violence, and intercourse trafficking”.

Combs “vehemently” denied the claims. A day after the go well with landed in court docket, each events mentioned they’d “amicably” settled the case, although Combs’s lawyer mentioned the settlement was “by no means an admission of wrongdoing”.

However in Might, CNN obtained surveillance footage that confirmed the entertainer-turned-entrepreneur assaulting Ms Ventura in a 2016 altercation that’s detailed in her go well with.

Combs lastly acknowledged the incident in an Instagram video two days later, saying he was “disgusted” by what he had completed.

“My behaviour on that video is inexcusable. I take full accountability for my actions,” he mentioned.

Ten others – together with one man – have since come ahead with their very own claims.

Joi Dickerson-Neal, who mentioned Ms Ventura had impressed her to talk out, alleged Combs had “deliberately drugged” and raped her when she was a Syracuse College pupil in 1991, and had made her a sufferer of revenge porn by filming the assault and exhibiting it to others.

Representatives for Combs blasted the lawsuit as “purely a cash seize” and have requested for it to be dismissed.

Liza Gardner accused Combs and R&B crooner Aaron Corridor of plying her with drinks after which forcing her to have intercourse with them in opposition to her will when she was 16 years outdated. She additionally claimed that Combs had visited her dwelling the subsequent day and choked her till she handed out. Combs’s lawyer slammed the claims as “bogus”.

The three preliminary lawsuits have been introduced beneath New York state’s Grownup Survivors Act, which granted grownup victims a one-year window to deliver claims in opposition to their abusers no matter statutes of limitation.

A lady to this point recognized solely as Jane Doe claimed that Combs, former Unhealthy Boy Data president Harve Pierre and a 3rd particular person had violently gang-raped her in a New York Metropolis studio when she was a 17-year-old highschool pupil.

A couple of days later, Combs broke his silence on social media in opposition to “sickening allegations… by people searching for a fast pay day”. His attorneys are searching for to dismiss the “baseless and time-barred” case. Mr Pierre has in the meantime known as the go well with a “story of fiction”.

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer and videographer who labored on Combs’s most up-to-date album, accused the mogul of operating an unlawful racketeering enterprise wherein he was compelled to obtain medication, solicit intercourse employees and tape intercourse acts. He additionally claimed Combs and actor Cuba Gooding Jr had groped him with out consent.

Grace O’Marcaigh, who labored on a yacht leased by the Combs household in 2022, accused the rapper and his son, Christian “King” Combs, of sexual assault. She blamed them for creating an “atmosphere of debauchery” with suspected intercourse employees and prime celebrities aboard.

Crystal McKinney claimed she had been drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs following a Males’s Trend Week occasion in 2003 when she was 22 years outdated. She additionally mentioned he had subsequently “blackballed” her within the modelling world.

April Lampros, who says she met Combs as a pupil at New York’s Trend Institute of Expertise in 1994, detailed “4 terrifying sexual encounters” by the early 2000s.

Adria English, a former adult-film actress who labored with Combs within the 2000s, mentioned he had used her as a “sexual pawn for the pleasure and monetary advantage of others” in the course of the “White Events” he hosted at his houses in New York and Miami.

Daybreak Richards, who as soon as sang in two Combs-assembled teams together with Danity Kane, mentioned she had personally witnessed his violence in opposition to Ms Ventura and that he had threatened her life when she tried to intervene.

Thalia Graves, who’s backed by movie star lawyer Gloria Allred, claimed Combs and his bodyguard Joseph Sherman had sedated, overpowered and tied her up earlier than recording themselves raping her and later distributing the intercourse tape.

Representatives for Combs have denied the claims of all six most up-to-date accusers.