The rapper’s party became a separate cultural phenomenon in the 2000s when all the stars of show business gathered there – from Britney Spears and Justin Bieber to Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Rapper Sean Diddy Combs has been embroiled in the biggest scandal in American show business in recent years. He was accused of kidnapping and human trafficking, as well as forcing women to have sex. Combs denies all charges.
The path from the top of show business to a cell in an isolation ward began for Diddy with a lawsuit from singer Cassie Ventura. After that, the number of accusations against Sean Combs began to snowball.
Legendary parties
The source of the rapper’s fame and influence is, among other things, his parties, which became a separate cultural phenomenon in the 2000s. All the stars of show business – from Britney Spears and Justin Bieber to Beyoncé and Jay-Z – gathered at Diddy’s cult Ewhite party.
After a series of accusations of violence and the initiation of a criminal case against the rapper, it emerged that over the years, in addition to social parties, Combs allegedly organized others more like orgies. In them, women are drugged and forced to have sex with sex workers, and Diddy and his accomplices allegedly film the events.
Women’s suits
In November 2023, the first to file a lawsuit against Diddy was Cassie Ventura, a singer and model who worked with Combs’ record label and dated the rapper for more than ten years.
According to her civil lawsuit against the musician, Diddy used his position to pursue “manipulative, forced romantic and sexual relationships” with her, and also regularly beat her.
In the lawsuit, Ventura also described hour-long orgies where the girls’ drinks were drugged without their knowledge and Diddy videotaped them while they were semi-conscious.
The singer also accused the musician of rape and said that many of the cases of sexual violence were witnessed by members of his loyal close circle who did not try to intervene and stop Diddy.
The rapper denied all the accusations and accused Cassie of extortion.
His claim was settled out of court just one day later. The amount of Ventura’s fee was not disclosed.
Past events
In the weeks following Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit against Diddy, three new sexual assault lawsuits were filed, including against minors. The earliest events described in them date back to the early 1990s.
The second lawsuit was filed by Joy Dickerson-Neal, who alleges that in 1991, when she was a student, the rapper drugged and sexually assaulted her. Combs also filmed the attack and showed it to other people, Dickerson-Neal said.
A third woman, Lisa Gardner, accused Combs and another man of rape, and Gardner said they raped her friend. According to Gardner, she was 16 at the time of the attack, she was later raped again, and at one point Combs choked her until she passed out.
Gardner said that after the rape, Combs tried to find her friend because she was afraid she would tell her boyfriend what happened.
The rapper has again denied all allegations, with his representatives describing the claims as “extortion.”
Notably, all of the lawsuits were filed within a week and shortly before the expiration of a special New York State law that allows victims who say they were sexually assaulted to file lawsuits. claim after the statute of limitations has expired.
New charges
In May 2024, CNN published surveillance footage showing Combs beating Cassie Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.
In the video, the man pushes Ventura to the floor and kicks him as he lies on the carpet. Later he pulled her by holding her T-shirt and threw a vase at her.
A day later, the rapper publicly apologized, saying, “I take responsibility for my actions in this video. I’m sorry for what I did. I’m disgusted now.”
Then co-model and actress Crystal McKinney accused Combs of drugging her and forcing her to perform oral sex in the bathroom of a New York recording studio in 2003.
Two days later, Diddy was sued by April Lampros, who alleged four incidents of sexual assault between 1995 and 2000.
According to Lampros, he met the musician in 1994, when he was a student. Their romantic relationship quickly turned into an “aggressive relationship with violence and coercion.”
In particular, Lampros alleged, the rapper forced him to take ecstasy and have sex with his girlfriend.
What’s next
With Diddy now in custody, Texas attorney Tony Buzbee reported on October 1 that more than 100 people plan to sue Combs for sexual assault, rape and sexual exploitation.
He said he represented 120 people, half of whom were boys and 25 of whom were minors at the time of the alleged crimes. One of the plaintiffs, according to the lawyer, is nine years old.
Combs’ attorney said the rapper “vehemently and categorically” denies the allegations, which he considers “false and defamatory.”
Source: korrespondent
