BBC Information, Los Angeles
ReutersNew allegations towards Sean “Diddy” Combs have surfaced, with a person accusing the imprisoned rapper of drugging and raping him in a New York nightclub in 2012.
In keeping with a court docket submitting, the person who used to be 17 on the time, paid a bouncer to go into the membership and used to be invited to Combs’ non-public desk, the place he used to be given more than one pictures of vodka.
The plaintiff claims that once eating the beverages, he “started to transform hazy and disoriented” and felt himself “dropping awareness and regulate of his frame”.
Combs has persistently denied the allegations made towards him in plenty of civil court cases, and has prior to now labelled them “sickening”. The BBC has sought reaction from his crew at the new allegations.
Referred to in court docket paperwork as John Doe, the plaintiff alleges he used to be resulted in a again room on the SoHo membership the place other people have been the use of medication and attractive with escorts.
He mentioned he realised the beverages he used to be given have been spiked and “impacting his colleges”.
In his observation, the plaintiff says he got here out and in of awareness and whilst he used to be acutely aware of what used to be going down, he may no longer forestall it.
The observation alleges the “defenceless” plaintiff used to be raped by way of Combs within the again room of the nightclub.
In a observation to the BBC based on separate federal felony fees, Combs’ attorney mentioned: “In court docket, the reality will succeed: that Mr Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked someone – guy or lady, grownup or minor.”
The brand new allegations come as every other rapper, Kanye West, suggested President Donald Trump to grant a pardon to Combs prior to his upcoming trial.
The 24-time Grammy winner voiced his give a boost to on X, posting an immediate plea to Trump: “FREE PUFF,” West wrote, adopted by way of every other publish tagging the president: “@realDonaldTrump PLEASE FREE MY BROTHER PUFF.”
In early February, a attorney representing accusers mentioned there have been plans to document greater than 10 further civil fits towards Combs.
Combs is lately going through greater than 30 civil court cases alleging sexual attack and misconduct.
He has been held in a New York prison waiting for a federal felony trial on intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
