Observe: This text comprises references to alleged sexual assault that some readers might discover disturbing.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by a girl who claims that he and one in every of his staff raped her in 2001. The lady, Thalia Graves, filed her criticism at present (September 24) in a New York federal courtroom.
In accordance with the lawsuit, obtained by Pitchfork, Graves met Diddy “in or round late 1999 or early 2000 by her then-boyfriend, who was an government at [Diddy’s] Unhealthy Boy [Records].” She claims that, “across the summer season of 2001,” Diddy referred to as her and mentioned that “he wished to fulfill together with her in particular person to debate her boyfriend’s supposed efficiency points” on the document label. She says that she agreed to the assembly, and Diddy and Joseph “Large Joe” Sherman, “his bodyguard and head of safety,” picked her up in an SUV.
Within the SUV, Graves accepted a glass of wine from Diddy, however “she began to really feel lightheaded, dizzy, and bodily weak,” in keeping with the criticism. “On reflection, it’s clear that Combs had prompted a drug to be put into Plaintiff’s drink, as just a few sips of wine had by no means impacted her that method.”
Ultimately, Graves, Diddy, and Sherman arrived at Diddy’s New York recording studio, and Graves claims that she misplaced consciousness whereas in Diddy’s “private lounge and workplace on the Unhealthy Boy studio.” When she regained consciousness, Graves “was bare, and her arms had been tied behind her again with what felt like a plastic grocery bag,” in keeping with the lawsuit. She says that she “shouted for assist,” at which level “Sherman lifted her up from the sofa and forcefully slammed her face down on what was apparently a pool desk.”
“Shortly thereafter, Combs entered the room bare,” and he anally and vaginally raped Graves, the lawsuit states. She says that she screamed for assist all through the alleged assault earlier than shedding consciousness. As soon as she regained consciousness, she alleges, she noticed Sherman “standing in entrance of her together with his naked penis in her face.” The bodyguard then “slapped [her] within the face and forcefully inserted his penis into her mouth,” in keeping with the lawsuit.
After shedding and regaining consciousness once more, Graves “shortly bought dressed and bolted out of the studio room” and “referred to as a livery driver” to choose her up. “The driving force drove her to the hospital and tried to persuade her to report the rape and get a rape package, however she was unable to go away the automotive, ‘shaking and crying hysterically’ and afraid of what Combs would do to her and her household if she reported him,” in keeping with the criticism.
