Former mannequin Crystal McKinney has filed a lawsuit in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs alleging she was drugged and sexually assaulted by the music mogul at his New York Metropolis recording studio in 2003.
In keeping with the grievance, filed in New York and obtained by and reported on by NBC Information, a then 22-year-old McKinney, first met Combs at a dinner at Cipriani Downtown in Manhattan and was advised she “was going to make it large someday” as a mannequin and was promised assist in her profession.
The lawsuit provides that later that night McKinney went to Combs’ recording studio and considered one of his associates provided her a joint of marijuana. “Plaintiff later got here to know that Combs had laced the joint with a narcotic or different intoxicating substance,” the go well with alleges.
“Seeing Plaintiff was very intoxicated, Combs demanded Plaintiff observe him and he bodily led Plaintiff to the toilet,” the grievance provides, whereas including McKinney was then allegedly sexually assaulted by the rap star.
McKinney gained public consideration when she gained MTV’s 1998 Mannequin Mission sequence, which earned her a modeling contract with IMG. Her lawsuit is the newest Combs faces as he’s accused elsewhere of rape, sexual assault and intercourse trafficking.
He has denied the entire allegations. In March, his Miami and Los Angeles’ properties have been raided by the Division of Homeland Safety, which investigates allegations of human trafficking.
On Could 19, Combs apologized on his Instagram for a lately surfaced 2016 video that sees him attacking his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura. In response, the Los Angeles District Legal professional’s workplace mentioned in a press release that they have been “conscious of the video” and that they “discover the photographs extraordinarily disturbing and tough to observe,” however that “we’d be unable to cost because the conduct would have occurred past the timeline the place against the law of assault might be prosecuted.”
