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Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing new se-xual assault allegations.
In a complaint filed in a New York court on Thursday, Nov. 23, the three-time Grammy winning rapper and producer is accused of drugging and se-xually assaulting a university student in 1991, the second such claim brought against the hip-hop entrepreneur in the past week.
The case against Diddy, 54, was one of several filed this week against popular people under New York State’s Adult Survivors Act, as a special one-year deadline for such accusations expired. Such lawsuits can be filed in court even if the statute of limitations has expired.
Diddy allegedly drugged and s-xually abused Joi Dickerson-Neal, a Syracuse University student visiting New York City at the time of the alleged event in January 1991, according to the lawsuit.
Combs is also accused of videotaping the alleged incident and sending it to other members of the music industry.
“The s-xual assault, and public exposure of it, caused her to suffer overwhelming feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, violation, and constant apprehension about who all viewed it,” lawyers for Ms Dickerson-Neal wrote in the complaint.
According to the case, Ms Dickerson-Neal is seeking specific compensation damages for mental and emotional hardship, pain and suffering, and reputational harm.
According to a Diddy spokesman, Ms Dickerson-Neal’s accusation is “made up and not credible,” and the rapper never assaulted her.
“This is purely a money grab and nothing more,” the spokesperson said in an email.
The accusation against Diddy comes only one week after he resolved a lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassandra Ventura.
