The lawsuits contain allegations Combs has largely and vehemently denied.
Sean "Diddy" Combs was for decades among the most influential entertainers and music entrepreneurs in the business, along the way becoming fabulously wealthy by turning hip-hop stardom into luxury business branding.
Separately, federal authorities, led by Manhattan prosecutors assigned to the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, have quietly been pushing forward on a probe into Combs as the subject of an ongoing investigation into alleged human trafficking. As part of that investigation, a grand jury and investigators have been probing some of the accusations that have been made in some of the civil suits against Combs, among other things.
Combs “vehemently” denied the allegations. A day after filing, Ventura’s suit was settled with both parties saying it had been resolved “amicably.” Days later, the suit said, Combs tracked Gardner and the friend down where they were staying because he was "worried" his actions would be exposed to his girlfriend. Combs was "irate and began assaulting and choking" Gardner "to the point that she passed out."
Attorneys for Combs have sought to dismiss Jones' suit, claiming the music producer’s complaint is an “attempt to dress up a run of the mill commercial disagreement as a salacious RICO conspiracy” to siphon money from the rap mogul. An attorney for Combs, Erica Wolff, mocked Jones’ lawsuit as more than 100 pages of “countless tall tales, shameless celebrity namedrops, and irrelevant images” that lacks “a single viable claim” against Combs.
The suit alleged McKinney met Combs at a Fashion Week event at Cipriani Downtown, where he "was flirtatious, bordering on leering," plied her with alcohol, and later that night requested her presence at his studio. The suit claims Combs offered Cardello-Smith a drink that, he believes, was spiked, that he passed out, and woke up to Combs having anal sex with a woman and telling him, "I did this to you too." Then checking himself in the bathroom, Cardello-Smith alleges he found himself bleeding.
English said she "has lived her adult life with the memories of being trapped in a cycle of sex trafficking she never asked to be a part of and was chosen because Defendant Combs knew he could groom her." The suit also named Tamiko Thomas, a woman accused of facilitating Diddy's alleged sex trafficking operation. The woman identified as Thomas, for her part, has denied what she calls English's "false accusations and ensures that she is the wrong ‘Tamiko.
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