An explosive lawsuit was filed against rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs last year, which may have led to his arrest last month. Combs has been charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He faces a minimum of 15 years in prison, and a maximum sentence of life in prison if found guilty. Yet his legal troubles are evidently just starting; he’s just been hit with another lawsuit.
USA Today reported that another woman, who is identified only as “Jane Doe,” filed a lawsuit, claiming that she was drugged and raped by Combs for four years — from 2020 until July of this year. She said she was forced to “have vaginal intercourse without her consent,” and was regularly drugged and forced into meeting with Combs, due to “coercive and harassing language” from both Combs and his staff. Her rapes were allegedly recorded without her permission.
In one instance, Doe said she was “compelled to ingest an unknown substance,” which she later discovered “was or contained the drug ketamine and/or other substances,” which caused her to “black out” and “lose consciousness intermittently.” Afterwards, she found out she was pregnant. Rapper Caresha Brownlee (who goes by the stage name “Yung Miami”), an ex-girlfriend of Combs’, allegedly began harassing Doe, pressuring her to undergo an abortion.
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It appears from the lawsuit that Doe was able to resist the pressure to have an abortion, but tragically, she suffered a miscarriage. She did not speak to Combs for several months, until he and his entourage began harassing her again. She said Combs monitored her location when she wasn’t with him, and would “refer to statements” she had made when Combs “was not present.”
Other women have similarly accused Combs of assault and coerced abortion. Virginia V., an ex-girlfriend of Combs’, said she became pregnant several times; once, he paid her $50,000 to have an abortion. When she got pregnant again, he again pressured her to have an abortion. “I have this period app, and it tells me when I’m ovulating and stuff, and so I told him. I told him that I’m ovulating,” she said. “So don’t do it. But he just did it anyway, and then I got pregnant. And he, like — okay, just get an abortion. Like, no hesitation. But this time was harder for me because I had been with him for so long and I was, like, really in love with him.”
Through tears, she added, “Part of me wanted to keep it. But he didn’t want it. … I only agreed to [the abortion] because he told me to.”
In many of the accusations made against Combs, he used his large entourage to help control and intimidate his victims, keeping them compliant. Women were allegedly threatened, abused, and forced to participate in orgies, and were drugged to keep them compliant. The indictment also claimed that Diddy was running a wide-ranging criminal enterprise; his employees — including assistants, security staff, and more — participated. They were also allegedly aware of the horrific physical abuse that the women suffered, which the indictment said often resulted in injuries that took days or even weeks to heal.
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