Rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Bad Boy staff alleged to have “gang raped” a 17-year-old girl

He may be one of the wealthiest entertainers (worth a reported $900 million this year) but all the money in the world is unlikely to save rap artist Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs from the shame of being labelled a rapist.

On Wednesday 6 December, a woman made a report that Combs and his longtime ‘lieutenant’ Harve Pierre, along with a third unidentified man, “gang raped” her when she was 17, inside Combs’ recording studio in New York in 2003. A high school student at the time, the female complainant was allegedly trafficked across state lines and plied with “copious amounts of drugs and alcohol”.

The woman has sued the hip-hop mogul, claiming he and two other men raped her 20 years ago.

Rapper Combs is also the founder of the (ominously named) Bad Boy Records and he last night spoke out on Instagram, saying, “Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday. Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”

Ironically, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura – who was an artist on his label – was the first to accuse him of sexual assault, filing a lawsuit on November 16 in which lawyers for Ventura claimed she “endured over a decade of his violent behavior and disturbed demands” which included repeated physical attacks and forcing her to “engage in sex acts with male sex workers” while he masturbated. That suit has now been settled out of court but the public are none the wiser to the findings.

President of Bad Boy Records, Harve Pierre, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs are being sued by Pierre’s former personal assistant who says she was gang-raped by the men on multiple occasions in 2016 and 2017.

But then, on December 6, a fourth woman sued Diddy, claiming she was “sex trafficked” and “gang raped” by Combs and two other men.

A former assistant to Bad Boys president Harve Pierre says he, along with Sean Combs and a third man raped her on multiple occasions in 2016 and 2017.

According to the complaint: “Pierre used his position of authority as [the] plaintiff’s boss to groom, exploit, and sexually assault her. Pierre engaged in a year-long pattern of grooming plaintiff, leading to sexual harassment of plaintiff, and sexual assault.”

The suit comes less than a week after former Cassie Ventura’s case was settled.

Antonino Tati

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