Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of raping 13-year-old girl

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with a new wave of lawsuits, with one alleged victim claiming that he drugged and raped her when she was 13 years old as an unnamed “male celebrity” and “female celebrity” participated.

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The new claims were filed by Tony Buzbee’s Buzbee Law Firm, which announced earlier this month it is filing 120 lawsuits against Combs, who has been in federal custody since his Sept. 16 arrest at a Manhattan hotel after police charged him with sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. 

In one of the new lawsuits filed Sunday night, and obtained by Variety, Deadline and NBC News, a Jane Doe claims she was assaulted after attending a party that followed the MTV Video Music Awards in 2000 when she was 13. 

The woman says that she was forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement and given a drink that made her “feel woozy and lightheaded.”

“Looking for a place to rest, Plaintiff entered what she believed to be an empty bedroom so she could lie down for a moment,” reads the lawsuit.

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She alleges that Combs entered the room with “a male and female celebrity” and “aggressively approached Plaintiff with a crazed look in his eyes, grabbed her, and said, ‘You are ready to party!’”

Combs then threw the girl toward another male celebrity, who is referred to in the lawsuit as “Celebrity A.”

“Plaintiff was held down by Celebrity A who vaginally raped her while Combs and Celebrity B, a female, watched. After the male celebrity finished, Combs then vaginally raped Plaintiff while the Celebrity A and Celebrity B watched. Combs attempted to force Plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, but she resisted by hitting Combs in the neck; he stopped,” the lawsuit adds.

After the alleged assault, the woman says she “fell into a deep depression which continues to affect every facet of her life.”

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The new batch of claims comes after Combs was hit last week with a fresh round of lawsuits accusing him of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.

At least six lawsuits were filed against Combs in federal court in Manhattan, adding to the mounting charges against the singer. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuits were filed anonymously to protect the identities of the accusers, two by women identified as Jane Does and four by men identified as John Does.

Some of the victims allege that Combs used his position in the music industry and dangled promises of fame as a way to convince them to attend drug-fuelled parties that led to their assaults.

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One accuser, who was a minor at the time, says that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 at a party in 1998. The man, who now lives in North Carolina, alleges that Combs told him he had “the look” of a star and then abruptly ordered the then-teen to drop his pants.

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“Don’t you want to break into the business?” the man claims Combs asked him. 

Another woman in California claimed that Combs “violently gang raped” her as retribution after she said he was involved with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder.

In the lawsuit, which was obtained by the New York Post, USA Today, TMZ, NewsNation and other media outlets, the victim, a woman named Ashley Parham, claims the I’ll Be Missing You hitmaker raped her with a TV remote with the help of several accomplices in March 2018.

According to Parham’s suit, which was obtained by the New York Post, USA Today, TMZ, and NewsNation, Combs put a knife to her face and threatened to give her a “Glasgow smile” as payback for her Tupac remarks.

The lawsuits follow Combs’ Sept. 16 federal arrests for sex trafficking and racketeering. His lawyers have asked a New York judge to force prosecutors to disclose the names of his accusers.

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According to a federal criminal indictment, Combs was described as the “head of a criminal enterprise” and is accused of using his “power and prestige” to induce victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs” that the rapper arranged, participated in and often recorded on video. The events would sometimes last days and Combs and victims would often receive IV fluids to recover, the indictment said.

After raiding his homes in California and Florida earlier this year, authorities uncovered drugs, guns with defaced serial numbers, and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”

Some of the abuse claims alleged by police mirror accusations Combs’ former girlfriend Cassie Ventura made against the three-time Grammy winner last fall.

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Ventura sued Combs last November, claiming the hip-hop star raped and sex trafficked her over the course of their abusive 10-year relationship.

The lawsuit was settled a day later, however earlier this year, security video aired by CNN showed Combs attacking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel hallway in 2016.

Following his arrest last month, Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, has been besieged with sexual assault allegations as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the Bad Boy Records founder’s homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters.

Another woman named Thalia Graves has alleged that Combs and his head of security raped her in the summer of 2001 at a recording studio in New York City.

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Dawn Richard, a member of the girl group Danity Kane, also accused him of psychological and physical abuse, including groping.

A team of lawyers lead by Buzbee announced earlier this month that they would be filing 120 sexual assault lawsuits against Combs, who has denied all charges against him.

“The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” said , one of the lead attorneys, at a Houston news conference. “The wall of silence has now been broken.”

Of the 120 purported victims, 25 were minors at the time the alleged assaults. One individual alleged he was nine years old when he was abused, Buzbee said.

Buzbee told TMZ that Combs won’t be the only one his firm sues. “Big celebrities … are going to be sued for allegedly helping him carry out and cover up sexual assaults, unless they settle out of court,” he said.

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