Sean Combs accused of sexual assault in new lawsuit

A former model filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing hip-hop mogul Sean Combs of forcing her to perform oral sex on him at his New York recording studio in 2003.

In the complaint, Crystal McKinney says that when she was 22, she was invited by an unnamed fashion designer to a Men’s Fashion Week event at a restaurant in New York City, where she met Combs, a well-known impresario and record label host MTV reality show Form the band.

Later that night, according to the lawsuit, Combs invited her to his recording studio, where McKinney said she gave her alcohol and marijuana, which she later believed were toxins. She says Combs took her to the bathroom, pushed her head into his crotch and, after she refused, forced her to perform oral sex on him. Soon after, the lawsuit says, she lost consciousness, later waking up in a taxi and realizing she had been sexually assaulted.

Representatives for Combs did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the lawsuit.

Combs, 54, has faced mounting legal problems since his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, known as Cassie, filed a lawsuit against him last year accusing him of sexually and physically abusing her for years. The lawsuit was settled within a day, but three more lawsuits followed from women accusing him of rape. In March, two of Combs’ homes were searched as part of an investigation that officials said was at least partly human trafficking.

The producer and business owner, known as Puff Daddy and Diddy, called the allegations against him false and “disgusting” and described the plaintiffs as looking for “a quick payday.”

Combs’ behavior has come under intense scrutiny in recent days after CNN released footage from 2016 showing him punching, kicking and dragging Ventura, corroborating part of her lawsuit filed last year. On Sunday, he apologized, saying in a video posted to Instagram: “My behavior in this video is inexcusable.”

McKinney, who filed her lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, said that when she learned of the other lawsuits against Combs, she filed her own lawsuit. Because the allegations are more than two decades old, which is outside the statute of limitations, the lawsuit is under New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, which allows accusers for a limited period of time to file civil lawsuits over claims after the expiration of the statute of limitations Limitation period.

Jonathan Davis, an attorney representing Combs, argued in a separate personal injury lawsuit that the gender-based violence law should not be used to authorize such lawsuits because another state law that expressly extends the statute of limitations for sexual violence. had expired.