Three men sue Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for alleged drugging and rape

Three men sued Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New York on Thursday, alleging that the hip-hop mogul drugged and assaulted them.

The claims, filed anonymously in a state court, add to a wave of sexual assault cases against the rapper and producer, who is already facing federal sex trafficking accusations in New York.

One of the men alleges Combs drugged and assaulted him in 2020, when the two met at Combs’ suite at the InterContinental hotel in Times Square to negotiate monies owed to him as a longstanding employee of the entrepreneur.

Another alleges he met Combs in 2019 at a Manhattan nightclub and was invited to an afterparty at Combs’ Park Hyatt apartment, where he was drugged and raped.

The man claimed he tried to resist before the tainted drink knocked him out. He further stated that a man filming the bedroom assault handed him $2,500 after the attack.

At a summer party in 2020 at Combs’ estate in East Hampton, New York, the third individual alleges that Combs and his record label associates drugged and assaulted him.

According to Thomas Giuffra, a New York attorney who filed the cases on the men’s behalf on Thursday, Combs exploited his influence and fortune to exploit the victims before using intimidation and fear to keep them silent.

“This is a long overdue opportunity for the victims to take the power back after carrying the burden of the assaults in silence for several years,” according to his statement. “A lawsuit may not rectify the injustices inflicted upon them, but it empowers the survivors to reclaim the power and dignity that Sean Combs took away from them.”

Attorneys representing Combs, the 55-year-old founder of Bad Boy Records, said the allegations are unfounded.

“These complaints are full of lies,” the lawyers said in a statement, refusing to clarify. “We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him.”

The lawsuits include incidents from 2019 to 2022. The guys, all identified as John Doe, claim they were unknowingly handed drugged cocktails and then sexually abused by Combs and others.