Lawsuit Alleges Sean Combs and Employee Raped Woman, Sold Assault Video as Pornography | Lawsuit.

A lady has claimed Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former bodyguard drugged, sure and raped her, later studying the alleged rape was recorded and allegedly bought as pornography, in response to court docket papers obtained by Rolling Stone.

Thalia Graves teared up at a number of factors throughout a press convention along with her legal professional Gloria Allred on Tuesday in Los Angeles.

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She is the eleventh particular person to come back ahead to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, claiming the Bad Boy Entertainment founder assaulted her at his notorious Daddy’s House recording studio in New York City in 2001. Graves’ lawsuit comes every week after the 54-year-old was arrested and charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy.

Graves says she grew to become pleasant with Combs in late 1999 via her then-boyfriend, who was an government at Bad Boy. Due to the boyfriend’s place on the firm, Graves says she ceaselessly attended occasions hosted at Combs’ properties and usually visited her boyfriend at Daddy’s House recording studio. (The boyfriend shouldn't be named within the lawsuit.)

Things took a flip when Graves allegedly acquired a name from Combs, who wished to satisfy along with her to “discuss her boyfriend’s supposed performance issues,” in response to the lawsuit, which was filed within the Southern District of New York on Tuesday morning.

Wanting to assist her boyfriend and already realizing Combs, Graves says she agreed to the assembly. “It was evidently a sick and twisted way of using his ownership of and title at Bad Boy and its affiliate entities to abuse Plaintiff and also show his power and ability to humiliate her boyfriend, his executive,” the lawsuit claims.

A couple of hours later, Combs arrived at Graves’ residence in an SUV pushed by his then-bodyguard Joseph Sherman aka Big Joe. Graves says she accepted a glass of wine from Combs and rapidly grew to become “lightheaded, dizzy, and physically weak.” By the time they arrived on the recording studio, Graves says she struggled to stroll and once they reached Combs’ workplace, Graves alleges she misplaced consciousness.

“In retrospect, it is clear that Combs had caused a drug to be put into Plaintiff’s drink, as a few sips of wine had never impacted her that way,” the lawsuit claims.

When Graves got here to, she claims she was bare and sure, along with her arms tied behind her again with what felt like a plastic grocery bag. As she shouted for assist, Sherman allegedly slammed her face down right into a pool desk.

“Shortly thereafter, Combs entered the room naked,” the lawsuit alleges. “He then bent [Graves] over the table causing her feet to dangle above the floor, forcefully held her down, and anally penetrated her without her consent …  [Graves] was unable to move, totally overpowered physically, in addition to being drugged and bound.”

Graves claims she screamed out in ache, however Combs ignored her and continued the alleged violent assault, smashing her head into the pool desk when she tried to flee. Graves claims she misplaced consciousness once more, and when she awoke Sherman allegedly slapped her a number of instances and pressured her to carry out oral intercourse.

Some time later, Graves claims she awoke on a sofa bare and alone. She alleges she was in “intense pain and [had] burning sensations in her vagina and anus” with bruising on her face and wrists. “Still dizzy and weak, Plaintiff called a livery driver that her family regularly hired and knew well,” her lawsuit alleges. Graves claims she was raveled, crying uncontrollably and affected by agonizing ache. (Neither Sherman nor a rep for Combs instantly replied to a request for remark.0

“The driver drove her to the hospital and tried to convince her to report the rape and get a rape kit, but she was unable to leave the car, ‘shaking and crying hysterically’ and terrified of what Combs would do to her and her family if she reported him,” the lawsuit claims. Graves knowledgeable her then-boyfriend of what occurred, in response to the lawsuit, however he discouraged her from going to the police, allegedly “telling her that it could negatively impact his own career.”

In the years since, Graves alleges that she has moved a number of instances and that Combs and Sherman had threatened her to stay silent concerning the alleged assault. However, she maintains that she disclosed to shut pals what occurred.

In November 2023, a number of days after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her intercourse trafficking and sexual abuse lawsuit towards Combs, Graves claims that her ex-boyfriend instructed her that Combs and Sherman had recorded the alleged rape and proven it to others. “He disclosed that Combs and Sherman had a pattern and practice of non-consensually recording women engaging in sexual acts and making those videos available to the public, including by selling tapes as pornography,” the lawsuit alleges.

Graves suffers from PTSD, extreme melancholy, “suicidal ideation and intrusive thoughts, and has attempted to end her life,” her lawsuit says. Her expertise has left her in “constant fear.” She is suing Combs, Sherman and eight of Combs’ firms underneath the New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, as nicely as a state civil rights regulation for the alleged secret recording and distribution of the intercourse tape.

This is the newest civil lawsuit towards Combs, who has been sued for allegedly sexually abusing at the least seven others since Ventura filed her graphic sex-trafficking grievance towards him final November. Combs settled with Ventura for an undisclosed sum inside 24 hours, however her 35-page grievance grew to become the roadmap for the music mogul’s felony prosecution and impressed others to file claims as nicely.

On Thanksgiving, the day New York’s Adult Survivors Act was set to run out, two extra ladies sued with equally disturbing claims towards Combs. Joi Dickerson-Neal alleged Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a Syracuse University pupil in 1991. In a declare much like Graves’ grievance, she alleged Combs filmed the incident and confirmed the video to others. Through a rep, Combs denied the allegation, calling the lawsuit a “money grab.”

Hours after Dickerson-Neal’s lawsuit grabbed headlines, Liza Gardner alleged Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her following an MCA Records occasion in 1990. Gardner says she was 16 years outdated on the time and that Combs turned “irate and began assaulting and choking” her till she nearly “passed out” throughout a confrontation a day later. Combs and his legal professionals denied Gardner’s allegations as nicely, calling them “fabricated.”

In early December, a fourth accuser alleged Combs, former Bad Boy president Harve Pierre, and a 3rd man gang raped her at Combs’ New York recording studio in 2003 when she was 17 years outdated. In late February, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a lawsuit accusing Combs of sexual assault, harassment, and not compensating him for work on the Grammy-nominated The Love Album.

After federal brokers raided Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami Beach have been in March, extra ladies stepped ahead with lawsuits alleging violent sexual assaults.

Model Crystal McKinney filed a lawsuit on May 21 alleging Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her after she attended a Sean John style present on the arm of designer Roberto Cavalli in February 2003. She claimed  earlier than Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted the 22-year-old. McKinney claimed Combs pressured her to take a success off a laced joint, led her into a rest room and pressured her to carry out oral intercourse.

On May 24, April Lampros filed a lawsuit alleging she was a pupil and intern at Arista Records when she started an on-off relationship with Combs in early 1994. She claims Combs sexually assaulted her on three events over the course of their four-year relationship and as soon as extra in early 2001. Like Graves and Dickerson-Neal, she alleges Combs recorded a intercourse tape of her and confirmed it to a number of individuals in 1997.

Earlier this month, former Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money member Dawn Richard claimed Combs sexually harassed and assaulted her, and via a “pattern of coercive threats and displays of brutal violence,” brought about her to “engage in commercial sex acts.”

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