Light up:Sean Combs Accused Of Sexually Assaulting 17-Year-Old In Latest Lawsuit

Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, the artist and entrepreneur also known as Diddy, was accused of rape, sexual assault and trafficking in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, the fourth sexual assault suit against Combs in less than a month as the singer’s legal troubles mount—though Combs has denied the allegations.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York by an anonymous plaintiff, lists Combs, his music company Bad Boy Entertainment, an unnamed assailant and Harve Pierre, the former president of Combs’ record label, Bad Boy Records, as defendants.

The plaintiff, listed as Jane Doe, alleges in the suit she was “gang raped” by Combs, Pierre and the unnamed assailant, as a 17 year old in 2003, alleging defendants violated New York’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law.

The plaintiff alleges she met Pierre and the unnamed defendant at a lounge in Detroit, where Pierre convinced her to board a private jet to New York City, and proceeded to sexually assault her in a bathroom lounge.

When they arrived at the studio, the plaintiff said Combs and Pierre drugged her and gave her alcohol, and then raped her.

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Combs denied the allegations in a statement to Forbes, saying he “did not do any of the awful things being alleged.” Combs also called the allegations “sickening,” accusing plaintiffs in multiple lawsuits of “looking for a quick payday.” Pierre did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment.

Combs, a three-time Grammy Award winner formerly known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, Puffy and Diddy, made it to the national spotlight in the early 1990s as a singer, rapper and record producer with his record label Bad Boy Records. Last month, Combs was accused of rape and sexual assault in a handful of lawsuits, including a $30 million suit filed by singer Casandra “Cassie Ventura,” who accused Combs of rape, sex trafficking and abuse. The suit was settled one day later for an undisclosed sum of money. Combs was also listed in a lawsuit by a woman named Joi Dickerson-Neal, who alleged Combs drugged her, sexually assaulted her and filmed that assault during an encounter when Ventura was a college student in 1991—Combs denied the allegations in that suit, which also listed Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises as defendants. Combs was also accused of sexual assault in another lawsuit filed by an anonymous plaintiff, who alleged Combs and singer Aaron Hall of raping them and their friend in the early 1990s. Combs’ attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told Forbes Combs “vehemently denies” the sexual assault allegations filed by Ventura, and accused her of blackmailing him by demanding $30 million.

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The three suits filed last month were filed in the waning days of New York’s Adult Survivors Act, a law that took effect late last year that had allowed adult sexual assault victims one year to file a lawsuit regardless of whether the initial statute of limitations had expired. The law, which expired late last month, was also used in sexual assault lawsuits against Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler and former Grammy Awards head Neil Portnow.