Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has hit out at “sickening allegations” towards him, saying they’re being made by individuals “looking for a quick payday” and “enough is enough”.
Four girls have launched sexual assault lawsuits towards him since final month, together with the newest which right now accuses him of the “gang rape” of a woman who was 17 on the time.
The US music mogul, who additionally goes by the stage identify Puff Daddy and P Diddy, mentioned that for the final fortnight he has “sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy”.
He added: “Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged.”
In a press release to Rolling Stone journal, Combs additionally vowed he’ll “fight for my name, my family and for the truth”.
The newest allegations encompass an unnamed lady who alleges she was sexually abused by him when she was 17.
Combs, 54, is accused together with Harve Pierre, the president of Combs’ firm Bad Boy Entertainment and a 3rd unnamed individual of intercourse trafficking and gang raping {the teenager}, who’s referred to within the lawsuit as Jane Doe.
It is alleged Combs and Pierre satisfied the woman to take a non-public jet with Pierre and the third individual to Combs’ recording studio in New York City.
Once there, the defendants plied her with medicine and alcohol and gang raped her, the lawsuit claims.
The criticism alleges the woman has photographs proving that she was in Combs’ studio, with Combs, on the evening in query.
In November, Combs settled a case introduced by R&B singer and former associate Casandra “Cassie” Ventura who alleged she was abused and raped by the star.
Later that month, Combs was sued by Joie Dickerson-Neal who claims he drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a psychology scholar at Syracuse University in January 1991 and filmed the assault.
But rejecting the claims as “made up and not credible”, a spokesperson for the star branded them “purely a money grab and nothing more”.
Another lady, recognized as Liza Gardner, filed a 3rd go well with wherein she claimed Combs and R&B singer Aaron Hall sexually assaulted her at Hall’s residence in 1990 or 1991.
The alleged assault occurred following an occasion on the workplaces of MCA Records, in accordance with a lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court.
It was filed someday earlier than the New York Adult Survivors Act expired. The act allowed grownup sexual assault survivors one 12 months to sue no matter when the unique statute of limitations expired.
A spokesperson for Combs denied the allegations.
Source: information.sky.com”