A former model identified as Crystal McKinney has filed a lawsuit over allegations that the embattled US rapper and business mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, drugged and sexually assaulted her in 2003.
In a filing on
Tuesday at the federal district court in Manhattan, McKinney who is now the
sixth person accusing Diddy of sexual assault narrated what transpired between
her and the rapper.
She claimed that she
met Diddy when she attended a Men’s Fashion Week event at Cipriani Downtown in
New York.
According to the
suit, McKinney, then 22, said the rapper invited her to the New York City
space, where he and a group of men were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana.
McKinney said she
was offered a joint, which she later came to believe had been laced with a
“narcotic or other intoxicating substance”.
After she “insisted
that she had enough,” she said Combs pressured her to continue drinking and
smoking and “demanded” she follow him to the bathroom.
She alleged that the
rapper forced himself on her, began kissing her, shoved her head down to his
crotch, and commanded her to “suck it”.
She claimed that she
refused, alleging that Diddy “pushed my head down and forced oral sex”.
McKinney said she
lost consciousness but later woke up in a taxi, and realised that she had been
sexually assaulted.
She claimed she was
subsequently blackballed from the modeling industry, got severely depressed and
attempted suicide in 2004.
McKinney said she
“knew she had a moral obligation to speak up” following the lawsuits filed by
Cassie, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend, and other women.
The rapper first
made headlines in November 2023, when Cassie accused him of rape, abuse, and
human trafficking during their 10-year relationship. The lawsuit was, however,
settled out of court one day after it was filed.
Shortly after his
case with Cassie, Diddy was accused of sexual assault in a lawsuit filed in the
Manhattan supreme court. A woman named Joi Dickerson-Neal accused Diddy of
drugging and raping her when she was a college student at Syracuse University
in 1991.
A third woman, on
the same day, accused the rapper of sexual assault. The lady alleged that Diddy
and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a friend in New York
City more than 30 years ago.
In December, Diddy
was accused of sexual assault by a fourth victim. A woman accused Diddy, Harve
Pierre, the former Bad Boy Entertainment president, and a third individual of
sex trafficking and gang rape when she was 17.
On February 26,
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a former producer and videographer for Diddy, filed a
lawsuit alleging that the rapper sexually harassed and drugged him.
The latest was filed
on Tuesday by McKinney.