A male escort sued Sean “Diddy” Combs on Wednesday, alleging Combs arranged to have him killed after sexually assaulting him at a New York hotel in 2012.
According to The Wrap, the anonymous accuser said Combs drugged and raped him after hiring him through a male companion service. After the reported assault, Combs allegedly then threatened the victim while referring to Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder.
Shakur died days after he was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. In September 2023, Duane Davis was charged with murdering the rapper. Though Combs has not been charged in connection with Shakur’s slaying, Davis has alleged that Combs paid Eric Martin $1 million to have him killed.
Davis is the uncle of Shakur’s suspected shooter Orlando Anderson. Anderson, who was a rival of Shakur’s, died in an unrelated shooting two years after Shakur’s murder.
The latest accuser said he was flown from Florida to New York. He claimed he felt disoriented after Combs gave him a drink and rubbed him with baby oil. Combs then allegedly forced the man to have sex with an unidentified woman.
According to The Wrap, Combs eventually dismissed the woman before pinning him the man against a wall and anally penetrating him.
Per the lawsuit, Combs told the victim, “You better not say a word to anybody about this. Did you hear me? … I’m not f–king playing with you.”
“If I can get Pac hit, what the f–k do you think can happen to you?”
On September 16, 2024, Combs was arrested outside a Manhattan hotel on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs has been denied bail twice, as Judge Andrew L. Carter determined there was a “serious risk” of witness tampering in this case. Combs’ legal team sought home detention with GPS monitoring. In exchange, they offered to post $50 million bail and to use Combs’ home as collateral.
“The government has proven the defendant is a danger. The bail package is insufficient even on risk of flight,” Carter said while denying Combs’ bail a second time.
In March 2024, federal authorities raided Combs’ homes in Holmby Hills, California, and Miami. Reports indicated that the raid was connected to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation that resulted in his arrest months later.
The reported raids also occurred four months after his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accused him of sex trafficking and abuse. In a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, she alleged that Combs drugged her and forced her to have sex with other men. The pair settled the lawsuit a day after its filing.
However, in May, a video surfaced showing Combs assaulting Ventura at a California hotel in 2016. After the video was released, Combs put out a video expressing remorse for his behavior. That video is mentioned in the criminal charges filed this week against Combs.
Two more accusers came forward a week after Ventura’s lawsuit. One of the women claimed Combs drugged and raped her at Syracuse University in New York in 1991. Combs denied those allegations before a third accuser, Liza Gardner, levied similar allegations against him.
In that case, Gardner claimed Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall drugged and raped her and a friend following an Uptown Records event in 1990. Gardner said she was 16 at the time of the incident. She also accused Combs of choking her a day after the assault
Days after footage of the 2016 assault was publicized, two more women filed lawsuits against Combs. One of those women was April Lampros, a New York Fashion Institute of Technology student who reportedly met Combs in 1994. Lampros accused Combs of sexually assaulting her on four occasions between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s.
Lampros claimed Combs promised to mentor her and connect her with executives in the fashion industry. Instead, Combs allegedly forced her to drink before raping her in a hotel room. Lampros recalled another instance in which Combs forced her to perform oral sex on her in a parking garage while a parking attendant watched.
Combs has been accused of committing or facilitating sexual abuse in at least 30 other lawsuits — including one, filed in October, which alleges he and Jay-Z raped a 13-year-old girl in New York in 2000. The lawsuit was voluntarily dismissed in February.
Combs’ federal trial is set to begin in May.
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