A lady who says Sean “Diddy” Combs subjected her to violence and abuse over a number of years within the Nineteen Nineties has filed a lawsuit in New York accusing the rapper of sexual assault, battery and gender-motivated violence.
April Lampros, who met Combs in 1994 when she was a university pupil, described a number of “terrifying sexual encounters” with him together with being pressured to take ecstasy and have intercourse with Combs’ late former girlfriend Kim Porter.
Lampros’ lawsuit, filed Thursday in state court docket in Manhattan, comes after a sequence of allegations in opposition to the embattled hip-hop mogul. A former mannequin accused Combs of sexually assaulting her at his New York Metropolis recording studio in 2003 in a separate lawsuit filed earlier this week.
Lampros, 51, stated within the lawsuit that she was a pupil at New York Metropolis’s Trend Institute of Know-how when she met Combs, who showered her with items and promised to assist her obtain her dream of a profession in style.
The connection turned abusive and coercive, in accordance with the lawsuit.
Lampros stated Combs raped her in a Manhattan resort room in 1995. She handed out and wakened the following morning “nude, sore, and confused,” in accordance with the go well with.
On one other event, Lampros stated, Combs pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him in a parking storage in full view of a employee on the storage.
Combs pressured Lampros and Porter to have intercourse with one another in his residence in 1996 after he had shoved ecstasy tablets down their throats, in accordance with the lawsuit.
“Ms. Lampros vocally opposed this concept, however Mr. Combs rapidly reminded her that she had no management over the state of affairs as he may make her lose her job,” the lawsuit stated.
Porter died of pneumonia in 2018.
A message in search of touch upon Lampros’ accusations was despatched to a lawyer for Combs.
The Related Press doesn’t sometimes determine victims of sexual assault by identify until they publicly determine themselves, as Lampros has.
The lawsuits filed by Lampros and the previous mannequin come days after CNN aired safety video that exhibits Combs attacking singer Cassie in a Los Angeles resort hallway in 2016. Combs on Sunday launched a video admitting he attacked Cassie within the resort hallway, saying he was “actually sorry” and his actions have been “inexcusable.”
A lawsuit filed by Cassie in November alleging beatings and abuse was settled a day after it was filed. It prompted elevated scrutiny of Combs, with extra lawsuits filed within the following months, together with a federal legal sex-trafficking investigation that led to raids of Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
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