Several days after Sean “Diddy” Combs was implicated in a $30 million legal settlement, he is in trouble once again, facing a second lawsuit that accuses the music mogul of drugging and r@ping a then-college student in 1991.
The woman, Joi Dickerson-Neal, filed her complaint Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, a day before the New York State Adult Survivors Act expiration date, and alleges she was drugged, s3xually ass@ulted and ab_sed, and was the victim of “revenge pοrn,” according to court documents.
Combs videotaped the January 1991 ass@ult and distributed the tape to others in the music industry, according to the suit. This caused “severe harm to Ms. Dickerson-Neal’s reputation, career prospects, and emotional well-being,” Dickerson-Neal’s attorney, Jonathan Goldhirsch, said in a news release sent to USA TODAY Thursday.
Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises are listed as defendants in the suit as well. Dickerson demands a trial by jury.
The latest accusations against Combs stem from a time period in which the now-billionaire was just beginning his rise to prominence. In 1991, he had not yet released his debut album “No Way Out.” At the time, according to the filing, Combs was working as a talent director at Uptown Records.
Both Dickerson-Neal and Combs shared mutual friends and acquaintances, the suit says. Dickerson-Neal also once appeared with Combs in a music video.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs allegedly drugged, r@ped Joi Dickerson-Neal
While on a school break for the holidays in 1991, Dickerson-Neal − who was a college student at Syracuse University at the time − “reluctantly agreed” to dinner with Combs, the suit says.
After dinner, which was held at a location where she had worked as a server, the two continued to spend the night together. Dickerson-Neal recalls Combs taking her to a music studio, and then to his home where the ass@ult allegedly took place. According to the suit, she felt “humiliated and hurt, yet she could not escape the ass@ult.”
Dickerson-Neal asked Swing who had seen the video, and he replied: “Everyone.”
A spokesperson for Combs said in a statement Thursday that this “last-minute lawsuit is an example of how a well-intentioned law can be turned on its head.”
“Ms. Dickerson’s 32-year-old story is made up and not credible,” the statement to TMZ continued. “Mr. Combs never ass@ulted her and she implicates companies that did not exist. This is purely a money grab and nothing more.”
Michelle Caiola, another attorney for Combs’ accuser, said in a release sent to USA TODAY, “We are privileged to assist our client, Ms. Dickerson-Neal, as she courageously steps forward in an effort to hold Mr. Combs to account. Everyone deserves to be heard and Combs should not be immune from liability because of his wealth and public stature.”
The Thursday filing alleges that after Dickerson-Neal was s3xually ass@ulted by Combs, she was admitted to the hospital for “severe depression and su!cide ideation.”
“The s3xual ass@ult and public exposure of it, caused her to suffer overwhelming feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, violation, and constant apprehension about who all viewed it,” the filing adds. “As Combs’ success and wealth rose quickly, she tried to block his existence out a she tried to put her life back on track.”
The suit alleges that Combs repeatedly pursued Dickerson-Neal for “a romantic or s3xual relationship,” but that because she had heard the mogul had “a history of treating women badly,” she rejected his advances.
Sister Soulja, a rapper from the Bronx, had even warned Dickerson-Neal about becoming involved with Combs after the two had been featured together in the music video for “Straight From the Soul” by Finesse and Synquis, the suit adds.
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