Simply days after 2016 lodge safety footage of Sean “Diddy” Combs beating on his then girlfriend Cassie Ventura was made public, a mannequin is now claiming that Unhealthy Boy Leisure founder drugged and sexual assaulted in his New York recording studio 21 years in the past.
“Combs’ assault has altered the trajectory of (Crystal McKinney’s) profession, denying her a profitable and profitable profession within the modeling and movie industries,” the submitting at present in federal court docket by Crystal McKinney says.
The winner of MTV’s Mannequin Mission contest in 1998, then 22-year-old McKinney met the ‘Lacking You’ performer at a Males’s Trend Week dinner in 2003 and was invited to his close by studio, the grievance states. Already having been given fairly a bit to drink, the plaintiff says she was inspired to partake of some “very highly effective” pot by Diddy – one thing a number of different accusers have detailed as an M.O. of the Unhealthy Boys Leisure founder.
“Seeing Plaintiff was very intoxicated, Combs demanded Plaintiff comply with him and he bodily led Plaintiff to the lavatory,” the go well with particulars. After McKinney initially refused to carry out fellatio on Combs, the rapper “shoved her head all the way down to his crotch” and compelled her to present him oral intercourse.
McKinney asserts that she handed out quickly afterwards solely to regain consciousness behind cab later.
Representatives for the a lot accused and far sued Combs didn’t reply to request from Deadline for touch upon McKinney’s go well with. If and after they do, this publish will likely be up to date.
Calling herself a “girl of religion,” McKinney explains within the submitting that she felt she had a “ethical obligation” to make her encounter with Combs public after so many different girls have alleged the mogul attacked them through the years.
First reported by TMZ, McKinney’s motion is in search of a variety of unspecified damages. Whereas the greater than 20 yr outdated claims would normally be useless because of the statute of limitations, the previous mannequin is shifting ahead underneath the Massive Apple’s Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Act, which allows the submitting of civil fits underneath an prolonged timeline.
Since Ventura filed her shortly settled go well with on November 16, 2023, half a dozen different authorized actions have been filed accusing Combs of sexual assault and different misconduct. A minimum of a kind of filings alleges intercourse trafficking of a minor, and one other is from a producer on Combs’ most up-to-date album.
Combs has denied all claims — regardless that he later corrected himself with a video apology for the beating of Ventura in 2016 in an LA lodge, as soon as the video went large.
Nonetheless, on March 25 this yr, the FBI and Homeland Safety brokers raided his LA and Miami houses. A federal spokesperson referred to as the raids a part of an “ongoing investigation.”