{"id":2753,"date":"2024-09-24T21:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-faces-new-civil-lawsuit-claiming-he-filmed-brutal-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-09-24T21:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T21:11:52","slug":"diddy-faces-new-civil-lawsuit-claiming-he-filmed-brutal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddy-faces-new-civil-lawsuit-claiming-he-filmed-brutal-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy Faces New Civil Lawsuit, Claiming He Filmed ‘Brutal Attack’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tLess than a week after he was indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is facing yet another civil sexual abuse case, this time claiming that he and another man \u201cviciously raped\u201d a woman at his New York City studio in 2001.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a complaint filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, attorneys for Thalia Graves say that Combs and his head of security, Joseph Sherman, isolated her, drugged her and sexually assaulted her at his studio. The lawsuit says the rapper also filmed the attack and later showed it to others.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFor decades, she remained silent and did not report the crime out of fear that defendants would use their power to ruin her life, as they had repeatedly, explicitly threatened to do,\u201d writes Graves\u2019 lawyers, who include well-known attorney Gloria Allred<\/strong>. \u201cTo this day, plaintiff suffers from severe depression, anxiety, and panic attacks, and still lives in fear of defendants.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe case is the latest of at least nine similar civil suits filed against Combs over the past year, each of which accuses him of sexual abuse and other wrongdoing. And it comes just a week after he was arrested and indicted by federal prosecutors on sweeping accusations of sex trafficking and racketeering \u2013 charges that, if proven, could see him sent to prison for life.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the new case, Graves claims she was 25 years old at the time of the attack. She says she was dating one of Combs\u2019 employees, and that he exploited the relationship to \u201clure\u201d her into meeting him and Sherman alone at the studio.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce alone, Graves alleges they gave her a drink that was \u201clikely laced with a drug that eventually caused her briefly to lose consciousness.\u201d She says she later \u201cawoke to find herself bound and restrained,\u201d at which time the pair \u201cproceeded to brutally sexually abuse\u201d her. Her attorneys say that \u201cboth men were undeterred by plaintiff\u2019s cries for help throughout the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA representative for Combs did not immediately return a request for comment. Sherman could not immediately be located for comment.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the attack, Graves says she \u201cnever recovered,\u201d suffering suicidal thoughts and other severe emotional damage. And she says any progress in healing was \u201cdramatically reversed\u201d when she learned last year that Combs had filmed the alleged attack and had \u201cshown the video to multiple men.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPlaintiff could not believe that Defendants would record themselves committing such a gruesome crime and then proceed proudly and widely to disseminate the recording of it,\u201d her attorneys write. \u201cThis action seeks redress for defendants\u2019 brutalizing, misogynistic, and violent attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less than a week after he was indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs is facing yet another civil sexual abuse case, this time claiming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1583,3568,2137,1092,296,458,3567,303],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-attack","tag-brutal","tag-civil","tag-claiming","tag-diddy","tag-faces","tag-filmed","tag-lawsuit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}