Content material warning: This story discusses sexual assault.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is dealing with one other authorized battle.
The rapper is being sued by mannequin Crystal McKinney over claims that he drugged and sexually assaulted her at his New York Metropolis studio in 2003, in response to authorized paperwork obtained by E! Information Might 21.
Within the paperwork, McKinney, who has modeled for manufacturers like Tommy Hilfiger and Macy’s, alleges that she was invited by an unnamed designer to a Males’s Vogue Week dinner at Cipriani Downtown, the place she was instructed that she’d be launched to Combs to probably advance her profession. Forward of the occasion, the mannequin, then 22, mentioned she was instructed to vary her look by dyeing her hair and shopping for a brand new outfit to make sure that the Unhealthy Boy Data founder discovered her enticing, per the go well with.
And whereas Combs did promise to assist her “make it large sooner or later” throughout the dinner, in response to the submitting, the 54-year-old additionally allegedly made “flirtatious” remarks in direction of McKinney earlier than inviting her to his studio later that night time to “get to know her higher.”
Whereas at his studio, per the submitting, Combs and an affiliate then pressured her to smoke and drink till she felt like she was “floating,” regardless of her beforehand insisting she had had sufficient. Combs then allegedly demanded McKinney comply with him into the lavatory, the place he “started kissing her with out her consent” and compelled her to carry out oral intercourse on him. She mentioned she misplaced consciousness shortly after and awoke “in shock” to search out herself in a taxi again to the designer’s condo, per the lawsuit.