Sean Diddy Combs Faces Four New Sex Abuse Lawsuits, Filed in One Day
Four new sex abuse lawsuits have been filed against Sean Combs, including one from a woman who says she was assaulted while a contestant on a VH1 reality show in which people vied to be hired as the hip-hop mogul’s personal assistant.The new cases, which were filed on Thursday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, join the dozens of civil lawsuits that have been filed against Mr.Combs since Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend, made bombshell allegations against him in November 2023.
Ms.Ventura’s suit was quickly settled, though at least 50 civil suits have followed hers with various accusations of sexual misconduct or violence.
He has denied the allegations.In September, Mr.Combs was also indicted on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He has denied those accusations and pleaded not guilty, and his trial is scheduled to begin in May.In one of the new suits, Kendra Haffoney says that she was raped by Mr.Combs around 2008, while she was a contestant on VH1’s “I Want to Work for Diddy,” which ran on the cable channel starting that year.
On the show, various aspiring assistants tried to impress the demanding and mercurial Mr.Combs to earn a place as his right hand.
Ms.Haffoney is credited with appearances on two episodes.In her suit, she alleges that she was handed a spiked drink at an after-party in the SoHo area of Manhattan, where Mr.
Combs and others were partying and “many sexual situations” were underway, making her uncomfortable.She became delirious, the suit says, and Mr.
Combs “guided her head down” to perform oral sex on him.She passed out and awoke later at the cast house, and “knew that she had been sexually assaulted, raped” by him, according to the court papers.Another suit was filed by Justin Gooch, who said that in 1999, when he was 16, he met Mr.
Combs at the Tunnel, then a popular dance club in Manhattan.The suit says that Mr.
Combs gave him...