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Sean “Diddy” Combs is dealing with a brand new lawsuit from one other lady who claims that he drugged her, sexually assaulted her and recorded the assault. On Tuesday, September 24, a lady named Thalia Graves spoke throughout a press convention and defined how the alleged rape affected her.
“Some of the toughest elements of this ache are the disgrace and the guilt I’ve skilled that performs a adverse half in my every day skill to perform correctly,” Graves stated alongside her legal professional, Gloria Allred. “Being blamed, questioned and threatened has typically made me really feel nugatory, remoted and typically liable for what occurred to me.”
Diddy’s accuser, Thalia Graves, claims at 25 whereas courting a Bad Boy government in 2001, Diddy lured her to his lounge, drugged her, and r*ped her.
— RapTV (@Rap) September 24, 2024
Per Deadline, the lawsuit claims that Combs, 54, and his bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, “viciously raped [Graves] on the Bad Boy Records studio in New York City” in 2001.
“Plaintiff was 25 on the time and courting considered one of Combs’ staff, a relationship that Combs exploited to lure Plaintiff into assembly him and Sherman alone,” the court docket submitting reads, based on the outlet. “Once they efficiently sequestered Plaintiff, Combs and Sherman gave Plaintiff a drink, seemingly laced with a drug that finally brought about her briefly to lose consciousness. She awoke to seek out herself certain and restrained.”
The lawsuit additional claims that each Combs and Sherman reached out to Graves “and warned her to be silent, threatening repercussions together with [Graves] probably shedding custody of her son if she ever disclosed the assault.”
“Because of their monumental energy within the trade, together with via their possession of and positions on the Combs Corporations, [Graves] knew that they might comply with via on their threats,” the lawsuit reads. “[Graves] couldn’t consider that Defendants would report themselves committing such a grotesque crime after which proceed proudly and extensively to disseminate the recording of it.”
Graves’ lawsuit is the newest amid a string of earlier accusations towards Diddy. The rapper was beforehand accused of sexual assault by a number of folks, together with his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in late 2023. Though they settled Ventura’s lawsuit shortly thereafter, a video of Combs dragging and beating Ventura in 2016 surfaced earlier this 12 months. Diddy apologized for the assault in an Instagram clip.
However, Combs’ two properties in Miami and Los Angeles have been raided by Homeland Security as a part of a intercourse trafficking investigation. Nearly six months later, he was arrested in New York City by federal brokers and charged with three felony counts of racketeering, intercourse trafficking and transportation to have interaction in prostitution.” Combs is at the moment in custody at MDC Brooklyn.
If you or anybody has been sexually abused, name the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). A skilled employees member will present confidential, judgment-free help in addition to native assets to help in therapeutic, recovering and extra.