For the seventh time in six months, and for the second time this week, Sean Combs has been reported for sexual abuse. Early on Friday, the lawsuit that a woman named April Lampros has filed against the musician — also known as Puff Daddy or Diddy — was made public, accusing him of having sexually abused her on four occasions since the mid-1990s. nineties and until the early 2000s. Last Tuesday another woman, a former model named Crystal McKenney, denounced him for sexually abusing her in 2003. And last week a harsh recording was made public in which Combs appeared beating her for the legs. corridors of a hotel to his girlfriend for more than a decade, the model Casandra Ventura, who had already denounced him in November.
In the new lawsuit, the complainant claims that the artist abused her when she was a young student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, one of the most prestigious institutions for learning fashion globally. According to the documents, Lampros and Combs met in 1995, it is not clear under what circumstances or through whom. She explained to him that her desire was to work in the world of fashion and he—in a pattern that is repeated with other complainants—assured her that he would try to help her in any way possible, introducing her to executives in the sector and helping her find a job. This led to a series of abuses by the musician and businessman who, as the complainant has now learned, he recorded and taught to various people. In addition to suing him, three record companies are also included in the complaint: Bad Boy Records (owned by Combs), Arista Records (where she was an intern and which, she claims, “allowed the abuse by putting Combs in a position of power and not protecting to Lampros”) and Sony Music Entertainment (the parent company of Arista and also of Bad Boy)
“What Mr. Combs displayed as kind gestures quickly manifested into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex,” the current lawsuit reads. “She felt that if she disobeyed him, he would take away her dreams of achieving a career in her world. Combs also threatened to blacklist her from the industry if she tried to get into any kind of trouble with him. Lampros’ dreams and everything she had worked hard for were in her hands.”
The facts reveal what Combs’ toxic dynamic with Lampros was like, and are very similar to those reported by other complainants. The first time, in 1995, they met for a drink at a bar in New York—he encouraged her to drink and drink quickly—and the next thing she remembers is “being in a hotel bed with Mr. Combs lying next to her.” the force on top of her” and with her “begging him to stop.” Lampros claims that he raped her, and that the next morning “she was naked, sore and confused.”
That was not the last time they saw each other, the documents explain, nor that he abused her. When she tried to get away from him, he changed the way he approached her “and got angry at her, threatened her, and used force,” so she “was afraid of him.” Once in a parking lot near the artist’s apartment in Manhattan, he grabbed her and forced her to perform oral sex on him while another person was inside the garage. “Mrs. Lampros was in shock“morally exhausted, embarrassed and physically destroyed because Combs violently forced her to her knees and pulled her hair,” the documents read. Another night in 1996, he forced her to go to her house with another ex-girlfriend (whose name has not been revealed), to take ecstasy and have sex with them, and threatened that if she did not do so she could “lose the job”. He masturbated and then raped her. “She felt disgusted, ashamed and embarrassed and she could not believe what happened,” the papers filed by Lampros’ lawyers state.
The victim tried to end her relationship with Combs in 1998, and they did not see each other for a couple of years, but between late 2000 and early 2001 they met again and he forced her to kiss him and groped her without her consent. All of this caused her “physical injuries, serious emotional distress, humiliation and anxiety.”
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In the lawsuit, which according to CNN —who has had exclusive access to it— has not yet been examined by the county clerk, Combs is accused of crimes of assault, assault, infliction of emotional distress and violation of the law for the protection of victims of gender violence . “I trust that justice will prevail and that the veil will be removed so that no other woman has to endure what I suffered,” the complainant declared to the American television network. Lawyers for both Combs and the record labels have not responded to the allegations.
Lampros’ lawsuit joins the string of legal procedures that the artist named Casandra Ventura (or Cassie) initiated in November, when she sued him for a multitude of abuses committed, but who just one day later withdrew the complaint after an out-of-court settlement. They were joined at the end of that month by Joi Dickerson-Neal (she accused him of raping her and recording everything in 1991, when she was 19 years old) and Liza Gardner (who claimed that he abused her and a friend in 1990). ). In December came what may be the most serious, that of a fourth woman, anonymous, who accuses her of raping her “between the spring and autumn of 2003” when she was a minor, and that the president of her record company He took her on a private plane from Detroit, Michigan, to New York so that he and two other people could rape her. This can involve a crime of sex trafficking and, furthermore, involving minors. The last two lawsuits so far had been those of Rodney Jones Jr., Combs’ regular producer who claimed in February that he subjected him to non-consensual touching, and last Tuesday that of Crystal McKinney, in which she accuses Combs of abusing her in 2003, something that ended her modeling career. In addition, he has a federal investigation open in this regard, of which, for the moment, few details have emerged.
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