The veracity of a former safety guard’s allegation of being drugged and raped by Sean “Diddy” Combs practically 20 years in the past is being known as into query after discrepancies emerged between the fundamental details in his authorized submitting on the matter, and his account in a tv interview in regards to the alleged encounter.
On Tuesday, John Doe — who’s remaining nameless in courtroom and to the general public to retain his privateness whereas discussing the alleged assault — sat with CNN to clarify how the alleged assault within the mid-aughts at one in all Combs’ legendary White Get together occasions value him his job, ended his marriage and left him with a lifelong sense of disgrace. Nevertheless, when evaluating his account of the alleged sexual assault to the information community to the authorized criticism filed earlier this 12 months, two main inconsistencies stick out: the 12 months it allegedly occurred and whether or not or not he had a spouse that he’d divorced after struggling trauma from the assault he describes or if he had ever even been married in any respect.
Particulars of his account, submitted in a authorized criticism within the Southern District of New York on Oct. 14, additionally observe with what different alleged victims of Combs have claimed the rapper did of their separate authorized filings. Particularly, the small print he shared are much like the accounts described within the bombshell authorized submitting from Diddy’s ex-collaborator, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Johnson. That case led to a still-roaring explosion of chatter about Combs’ conduct and the submitting of dozens of further lawsuits towards the rap mogul.
“The complete gravity of it lives with me to this present day. It impacts each single factor you do for the remainder of your life,” the person informed CNN relating to the alleged assault in an on-camera interview, together with his face obscured in shadow and his voice altered.
In his Oct. 14 authorized submitting, Doe claimed to have encountered the rap star whereas working as safety on the mogul’s annual White Get together occasion in 2007 at his East Hampton property. Talking with CNN this week, he mentioned the rapper was “extremely pleasant, very gracious” as the 2 chatted that day. Combs supplied him two drinks, he mentioned in his submitting, that he believed would comprise alcohol however now thinks contained the nervous system depressant GHB and the drug ecstasy. The go well with claims that Doe felt woozy after the primary drink and was incapacitated by the second. At that time, Combs — who Doe informed CNN was “ready within the wings” and observing him — feigned concern after which pushed him into an empty car, the place he tells the courtroom that Combs held him down and sodomized him as he pleaded for assist.
Doe revealed this week {that a} second superstar was current in the course of the alleged assault and was amused by Comb’s alleged sexual assault of him.
“I used to be screaming,” he recalled. “I used to be telling him to cease. It was extremely painful, and he was performing prefer it was nothing, and he gave the impression to be disconnected from it, however it was abusive past perception.”
Doe then struggled to go away the occasion, he mentioned. When he went to his supervisor on the safety agency, he mentioned that his account of the alleged assault was disregarded, and after that, he was by no means requested to work safety at that agency once more.
“After that, he didn’t discuss to me once more, he minimize me out of all the pieces,” he mentioned. “I used to be completely blacklisted after that. I needed to discover a completely different area.”
Since that day, Doe claims within the civil go well with he filed, he has struggled with emotional ache and psychological well being points that led to the top of his marriage. The trauma he suffered after the incident has overwhelmed his private relationships, he says.
Within the criticism towards Combs, which was one of many many following the mogul’s out-of-court settlement of a civil case together with his ex, Cassie Ventura, it’s said that “Plaintiff has skilled a big affect on his private life; he has by no means married and sometimes struggles to take care of relationships because of the assault.” Doe is searching for compensatory and punitive damages.
The discrepancies in what was mentioned within the CNN interview and within the authorized submitting have led to some severe questions on Doe’s credibility. Foremost, the civil go well with filed in October claims that the incident befell in 2006, however there was no White Get together held at Diddy’s East Hamptons that 12 months. The 2006 annual summer season occasion was in St. Tropez, France. It reportedly took CNN pointing this out to Doe’s attorneys for them to amend the criticism so the proper 12 months is on their doc, in response to courtroom information seen by The Hollywood Reporter.
The amended criticism, submitted on Dec. 10, has additionally eliminated a factual allegation that learn, “Plaintiff has skilled a big affect on his private life; he has by no means married and sometimes struggles to take care of relationships because of the assault.” It has been changed with a numbered allegation that reads: “Plaintiff has skilled a big affect on his private life; he was married on the time and was too ashamed to inform his spouse after struggling by the assault.”
Attorneys for Combs initially declined remark, CNN reported, however after the story was printed, they pounced, replying to the community relating to the amended criticism and took a swipe on the Texas legal professional bringing dozens of instances towards Combs.
“After [Tony] Buzbee was uncovered this week for pressuring shoppers to convey bogus instances towards Mr. Combs, and after public information confirmed that — opposite to his allegations — there was no white celebration within the Hamptons in 2006, Buzbee amended this criticism to stroll again the allegations and now declare a unique day and wholly completely different 12 months,” Combs’ attorneys mentioned of their assertion.
Calls and emails despatched to Buzbee by THR on Wednesday weren’t instantly returned by him, his paralegal or his affiliate. The legal professional, nonetheless, reportedly had already shot all the way down to CNN.
“This allegation is patently ridiculous… What we received’t do is pursue a case that we don’t consider has advantage,” he informed CNN in an electronic mail. “We don’t stress individuals nor do we have to.”
Combs’ camp additionally addressed the lawsuits in a press release launched on Oct. 14, by the way the identical day as Doe’s authorized submitting.
“The press convention and 1-800 quantity that preceded in the present day’s barrage of filings have been clear makes an attempt to garner publicity,” his group mentioned earlier this 12 months. “Mr. Combs and his authorized group have full confidence within the details, their authorized defenses and the integrity of the judicial course of. In courtroom, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs has by no means sexually assaulted anybody — grownup or minor, man or lady.”
