Diddy’s authorized troubles are persevering with so as to add up, even whereas he stays behind bars. The disgraced music mogul is going through one other lawsuit, this by time by an accuser who says she was “certain and restrained” earlier than being sexually assaulted and filmed by Diddy and his bodyguard.
Diddy and his former bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, are going through new sexual assault allegations as detailed in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, September 24, within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit, obtained by PEOPLE, was introduced forth by a girl named Thalia Graves, who claims that Combs and Sherman brutally raped her vaginally and anally in the summertime of 2001 on the Unhealthy Boy Data studio in New York Metropolis earlier than promoting the footage as pornography.
Based on the grievance, Graves alleges that the assault was recorded on video, and she or he has since struggled with suicidal ideas. Graves, who was 25 on the time and relationship certainly one of Combs’ workers, says that Combs exploited her relationship to lure her into a non-public assembly with him and Sherman. As soon as remoted, the 2 allegedly gave her a drink that was “doubtless laced with a drug,” inflicting her to lose consciousness, reviews PEOPLE. When she awoke, she discovered herself certain and restrained and alleges that she was raped each anally and vaginally by Combs and Sherman.
Graves claims she didn’t report the incident as a result of worry of retaliation and says she’s suffered for years from despair and anxiousness, and states her trauma intensified in November 2023 when she found that the assault had been recorded and allegedly shared by Combs and Sherman through the years, presumably bought as pornography. The lawsuit additional alleges that through the assault, when Graves regained consciousness and screamed, Sherman violently slammed her face down onto what gave the impression to be a pool desk, reviews PEOPLE.
TMZ reviews that Graves goes after Diddy, Sherman and Unhealthy Boy for damages and she or he’s being repped by Gloria Allred, who held a press convention with Graves. Through the press convention, an emotional Graves described the alleged incident as a “ache that enters the very core of who you might be.”
“A few of the hardest components of this ache are the disgrace and the guilt that I’ve skilled,” mentioned the accuser.
As beforehand reported, Diddy is already being held on the federal Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn after being arrested on September 16, the place he was charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution. Regardless of pleading not responsible, he has been denied bail twice.
