Three more men stepped forward on Thursday to accuse rapper and music producer Sean “P. Diddy” Combs of drugging and raping them. The civil lawsuits follow four others filed by men last month, including one victim who was 16 at the time of his alleged assault.
“It was a usual thing. Come for a meeting, have a drink, you get woozy, you wake up to Sean Combs raping you, you get ushered out the door,” the men’s attorney Thomas Giuffra told ABC News last Thursday. “I was struck by the similarity,” he said.
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The incidents allegedly took place between 2019 and 2022. All three men say they were served drugged drinks and then sexually assaulted by Combs and his associates.
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Each is seeking a jury trial and unspecified damages from Combs, the 55-year-old founder of Bad Boy Records.
One man claims he met Combs in 2019 at a Manhattan nightclub and was invited to an afterparty at the singer’s suite at the Park Hyatt Hotel. He said he tried to resist before the laced drink left him unconscious. One of Comb’s associates, who recorded the incident in a hotel bedroom, paid him $2,500 after the assault, the man said.
Another claims Combs drugged and raped him in 2020 when the two met at Combs’ suite at the Times Square InterContinental hotel to settle debts the man was owed as a longtime employee of Combs.
The third individual claims he was drugged and raped by Combs and his record label associates during a summertime party at Combs’ East Hampton mansion. That mansion is the site of several alleged assaults at the singer’s now-infamous annual White Party.
The three new suits bring the total number of sexual assault accusations leveled at Combs to 21. Guiffra claims more than 60 individuals have contacted him over similar allegations.
“I only chose to file these three so far because I vetted them out. They’re very consistent with the pattern that Sean Combs followed,” Giuffra said.
Two of those alleged victims accuse Combs of assaulting them at his star-studded White Party, including a 16-year-old boy who says that, in 1998, Combs told him to drop his pants and then proceeded to fondle his genitals. Combs told the boy, who was trying to break into the music industry, that the assault was a “rite of passage.”
Another victim said he became “extremely ill” after drinking a beverage laced with narcotics at a White Party in 2006. Combs allegedly pushed him into van and raped him, the filing states.
In February this year, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr., who worked on Combs’ 2023 record The Love Album: Off the Grid, filed suit against the rapper, claiming, “Throughout his time living with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones was the victim of constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus,” among other indiscretions.
Combs’ attorneys denied the latest charges.
“These complaints are full of lies,” the lawyers wrote in a statement. “We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him.”
Combs is currently in custody at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial on federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking. He was denied release pending trial in May for the third time last week.
Those charges allege Combs coerced and abused female victims over a period of several years. Among other venues, assaults occurred at drug-fueled, elaborately produced sexual performances Combs called “Freak Offs”. The sex parties also recruited male sex workers as part of the entertainment, according to the indictment.
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