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Sean Combs, his longtime lieutenant Harve Pierre and a third unidentified man allegedly “gang raped” a 17-year-old girl in Combs’ Manhattan recording studio in 2003 after the high school student was smuggled across state lines and “raped.” copious amounts of drugs and alcohol,” says an explosive new lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The new Jane Doe plaintiff – the fourth woman to accuse Combs of sexual assault in three weeks – claims the men took turns raping her in a bathroom at Daddy’s House Recording Studio when she was in high school and Combs was 34 was.
Combs vehemently denied Doe’s allegations in a statement issued shortly after the lawsuit was filed. “Enough is enough. For the last few weeks I have sat silently and watched as people attempted to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. I have had disgusting accusations made against me by people looking for a quick payday “Let me be clear: I have done none of the terrible things I have been accused of. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth,” Combs said in the statement to Rolling Stone.
The new lawsuit alleges that Jane Doe was out with a friend at a Detroit-area lounge two decades ago when Pierre singled her out, praised her looks and insisted that he was “best friends” with Combs. Pierre allegedly told the teen that Combs would like to meet her and called Combs on his phone so the music mogul could personally invite her on an impromptu trip to New York aboard a private jet.
The 14-page complaint alleges the private jet eventually transported the teenager to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where a waiting SUV took her, Pierre and the third unidentified man to the studio where Combs was finishing work with a recording artist. The file, obtained by Rolling Stone, contains several color photos allegedly taken that evening at Daddy’s House Recording Studio, including one showing the teenager sitting on Combs’ lap. The filing states that the teen was given a “copious” amount of intoxicants while Combs, Pierre and the third man “continuously” beat her and groped her body.
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When the teen was so drunk that everything became a “fuzzy,” Combs allegedly led her into a bathroom, removed her skirt and underwear and penetrated her from behind with his penis while she was “hanging over the sink,” they say in the lawsuit Southern District of the States of New York.
“MS. Doe did not agree to have sex with Mr. Combs, but continued thrusting. At some point, Mr. Combs turned Ms. Doe to face him. He told her that he could not orgasm and asked her to keep his nipples so hard as possible to help him ‘get off.’ He then turned her over and continued to rape her,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit, which includes a “trigger warning” in bright red letters on the cover, alleges the teenager began to drift in and out of consciousness when she looked in the mirror above the sink and realized the unknown man was from the plane ride replaced Combs and now raped her from behind. According to the files, Combs watched the attack from a chair just outside the bathroom.
Doe claims the unknown man ignored her requests to stop, but eventually moved out of the way so Pierre could turn. She claims that Pierre first subjected her to “non-consensual vaginal sex” and finally “forcibly forced her to give him oral sex.”
“MS. Doe recalls that Mr. Pierre was sweaty and had difficulty breathing,” the lawsuit states. “When Mr. Pierre was finished, he left Ms. Doe alone in the bathroom. Ms. Doe fell into the fetal position and lay on the Floor. Her vagina was in pain.”
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After the teen “got her bearings” enough to walk with some assistance, she was taken back to the airport and flown back to Michigan, according to the lawsuit, which also names Daddy’s House Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment as defendants. She has “very limited memories” of the return flight and “only remembers being in her car sometime early in the morning,” it says.
The lawsuit also alleges that Combs and his associates spent a lot of time in Detroit and that Combs had many connections in Michigan – most notably with the Black Mafia Family, “a drug trafficking and money laundering operation that is rumored to have set up Bad Boy.” called out.” (Attempts to reach Pierre were not immediately successful Wednesday.)
Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor filed the new lawsuit on behalf of the teen after previously representing R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in her bombshell Nov. 16 lawsuit against Combs, in which he accused him of sexual assault and human trafficking. Cassie claimed that Combs raped her, forced her to engage in non-consensual, drug-fueled sex with other men while he watched, and “often punched, punched, kicked and kicked” her.
A day later, the couple announced an agreement. Combs’ attorney said the pact was not an admission of guilt. “Just so we’re clear, a decision to settle a lawsuit, particularly in 2023, is in no way an admission of wrongdoing,” Combs’ attorney Ben Brafman said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Mr. Combs’ decision to settle the lawsuit in no way undermines his categorical denial of the claims. He is pleased that they have reached an amicable settlement and wishes Ms. Ventura well.”
Wigdor began the new Jane Doe’s latest lawsuit by citing Cassie’s case. He claimed that Ventura’s claims were quickly confirmed by others and acted as a catalyst for more accusers to speak out in solidarity. He wrote that it was “triggering” for Doe to read Cassie’s allegations that she was forced to have sex with other men against her will, but that she now understands “she too was a victim of sex trafficking and Mr. Combs’ conduct.” “To force women to do so.” Non-consensual sex was not an isolated incident or unique to Ms. Ventura.”
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Wigdor accuses Combs, Pierre and the third unidentified defendant of “exploiting a vulnerable high school teenager as part of a sex trafficking scheme in which she was plied with alcohol and sent on a private jet to New York City.” She was gang-raped.” He says, “The depravity of these heinous acts has, unsurprisingly, left Doe scarred for life.” The lawsuit claims Doe is entitled to “monetary damages, physical injuries, pain and suffering as well as severe psychological and emotional distress, which entitles her to the award of compensatory and punitive damages.
Pierre, who met Combs at Howard University before working for him at Bad Boy Records, was the subject of another lawsuit on Nov. 22 under the Adult Survivors Act. An unidentified executive assistant alleged that Pierre groomed, harassed and sexually assaulted her multiple times in 2016 and 2017. (Pierre did not respond to a request for comment on the complaint.)
The new Jane Doe lawsuit, filed Wednesday, was filed under a New York measure called the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, a City Council law that created a two-year “look-back” window for civil claims. that were not previously covered by the law restrictions. The measure only applies to claims of gender-based violence within the city’s five boroughs. It expires March 1, 2025.
The three previous lawsuits against Combs were filed under the state’s Adult Survivor’s Act, which expired last month. Following Cassie’s lawsuit, two other women came forward on Thanksgiving Day with similarly disturbing claims against Combs. The second accuser alleged that Combs drugged and sexually abused her in 1991 while she was a student at Syracuse University. The woman claimed Combs filmed the incident and showed the video to others, which was described as “revenge porn.” Through a representative, Combs denied the claim. “This last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head. (This) 32-year-old story is fabricated and not credible. Mr. Combs never attacked her and she blames companies that don’t exist. “This is pure money-grabbing and nothing more,” said the spokesman.
The third lawsuit alleged that Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping a plaintiff and her friend after an event at Uptown Records in the early 1990s. The plaintiff alleged that days after the alleged rape, Combs showed up at the home where she was staying and became violent: “He became angry and began attacking and choking Jane Doe until she passed out,” it said of the complaint.
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“These are fabricated allegations that falsely allege misconduct from over 30 years ago and were filed at the last minute,” a Combs spokesman said of the third accuser. “This is nothing more than a money grab.”
Although Combs has denied any wrongdoing, he resigned from his chairmanship of his media company Revolt last week and was reportedly fired from the Harlem Charter School he co-founded. Liquor giant Diageo, meanwhile, is asking a judge to block Combs’ request for an injunction that would allow him to use incoming marketing funds to promote DeLéon Tequila. Diageo said such a campaign would be “devastating” for the brand.