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 scholar, 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 courtroom 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, mentioned within the lawsuit that she was a scholar at New York Metropolis’s Trend Institute of Expertise 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 line with the lawsuit.
Lampros mentioned Combs raped her in a Manhattan lodge room in 1995. She handed out and wakened the subsequent morning “nude, sore, and confused,” in line with the go well with.
On one other event, Lampros mentioned, 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 drugs down their throats, in line with the lawsuit.
“Ms. Lampros vocally opposed this concept, however Mr. Combs shortly reminded her that she had no management over the state of affairs as he may make her lose her job,” the lawsuit mentioned.
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 establish victims of sexual assault by title except they publicly establish 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 lodge hallway in 2016. Combs on Sunday launched a video admitting he attacked Cassie within the lodge hallway, saying he was “actually sorry” and his actions had 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 further 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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