A mannequin has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003, the newest in a string of allegations in opposition to the rapper and businessman.
Crystal McKinney stated in a lawsuit that Mr Combs invited her to his New York studio and plied her with alcohol and marijuana till she turned intoxicated.
He then compelled her to carry out oral intercourse, she stated.
BBC Information has requested representatives of Mr Combs for remark.
Mr Combs has just lately been caught in a storm of sexual misconduct and abuse allegations.
Earlier this week, he apologized after CCTV footage confirmed him attacking singer, mannequin and actress Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura in a lodge hallway in 2016.
Final month, federal authorities raided his properties in Los Angeles and Miami, Florida, in a federal human trafficking investigation.
Ms McKinney filed her declare underneath New York’s Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Safety Act, which permits victims to file claims no matter when the abuse occurred till 2025.
The criticism additionally names Mr Combs’ Unhealthy Boy Leisure, his clothes label Sean John and distributor Common Music Group.
Ms McKinney stated she was an up-and-coming mannequin when an unnamed clothier launched her to Mr Combs at a Males’s Trend Week occasion.
The designer “started to direct Plaintiff’s look, as he sought to make sure Combs discovered her engaging,” in response to the paperwork.
On the occasion, Ms McKinney stated Mr Combs made suggestive remarks, supplied to assist her profession and “plied her with alcohol”. He invited her to his studio the identical evening.
Ms McKinney stated Mr Combs was consuming and smoking marijuana with a number of different males.
Providing her some, one informed her, “You’ve by no means had weed like this earlier than.”
Ms McKinney stated she interpreted that to imply the marijuana was laced with one other substance.
As soon as she was “very intoxicated”, Mr Combs led her to a rest room, the place he compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on him, she alleged.
She misplaced consciousness afterwards and “woke up in shock to search out herself in a taxicab heading again to the designer’s condominium,” feeling “humiliated and traumatized and with out recourse”.
Ms McKinney stated modelling alternatives started to say no for her and she or he believed Mr Combs used his affect to “blackball” her within the trade.
In a “tailspin of tension and despair”, Ms McKinney stated she tried suicide.
Ms McKinney stated she filed the swimsuit to hunt “justice for herself and for any of different Combs’ victims”.
