Sean Combs Hit With Third Sex Assault Claim

UPDATE Nov 25, 2023 9:27 AM CST

Sean "Diddy" Combs is facing another sexual assault lawsuit filed just before the expiry of New York's Adult Survivors Act. The accuser, identified only as Jane Doe, says Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall raped her and her friend after a music industry event in 1990 or 1991, Rolling Stone reports. The suit names Combs and Hall as defendants, along with MCA Music Entertainment and Geffen Records. The lawsuit alleges that days after the alleged assault, an "irate" Combs showed up at the home Jane Doe shared with her friend, seeking to stop them from speaking out, and choked her until she passed out, the AP reports. A Combs spokesperson claimed both lawsuits filed Thursday were "money grabs."

Nov 24, 2023 5:27 AM CST

A week after he was sued for alleged rape (a suit that was quickly settled), Sean "Diddy" Combs is being sued again. Joie Dickerson-Neal says that when she was a student at Syracuse University in 1991, Combs pursued her romantically, and she went out with him "reluctantly" one night. She says while they were together, he drugged her to the point that she could not stand or walk, Deadline reports. She says he took her to the place he was staying and sexually assaulted her, and that due to having been drugged, she could not fight him off, NBC News reports.

She also claims he filmed the encounter, and that days later, DeVanté Swing of the R&B group Jodeci, who was a friend of hers, told her he and others had viewed the sex tape but that he was concerned the band would lose its record deal if he accused Combs publicly. Dickerson-Neal says the alleged assault led to depression and suicidal ideation and that she dropped out of college as a result. She says she told a friend what had happened the next day, and later filed police reports in New York and New Jersey, though it's not clear what happened after that.

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She says singer Cassie's recent lawsuit against the rapper encouraged her to take action, and she sued under New York's Adult Survivors Act on Thursday, the day before the expiration of the one-year window the act opened up for adult survivors of sexual abuse to file lawsuits regardless of when the alleged abuse occurred. Combs' spokesperson calls the new lawsuit a "money grab" and denies the allegations. (Others including Axl Rose, Sebastian Chacon, Marcellus Wiley, Jamie Foxx and Cuba Gooding Jr. have also been sued under the act this week.)