NOTE: The next article accommodates disturbing content material. Please learn at your individual discretion.
In a brand new lawsuit that names Sean “Diddy” Combs as a defendant, Diddy’s youngest son Christian “King” Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting a lady whereas she labored onboard a yacht chartered by Diddy in 2022.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday within the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, comes after Diddy’s houses had been raided as a part of an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation by federal authorities. Through the raid, Christian and Diddy’s older son, Justin Combs, had been each handcuffed and detained however not arrested.
Past the federal investigation, Diddy’s authorized troubles prolong to a number of sexual assault and rape lawsuits, which Diddy has dismissed as “character assassination” and an try at “a fast payday.”
Now, Christian, 26, is dealing with allegations of his personal made by Grace O’Marcaigh, who stated the rapper’s son drugged and sexually assaulted her in December 2022 throughout a yacht journey organized by Diddy.
Based on NBC Information, which obtained the authorized submitting, Christian has been accused of sexual assault, sexual harassment and infliction of emotional misery. Diddy has additionally been sued for premises legal responsibility, in addition to for allegedly aiding and abetting Christian within the assault.
O’Marcaigh is looking for unspecified damages.
A lawyer for Christian referred to as O’Marcaigh’s lawsuit “manufactured lies and irrelevant information.” The lawyer maintained Christian and Diddy’s innocence and stated they’d file a movement to dismiss “this outrageous declare.”
In her lawsuit, O’Marcaigh stated she’d been employed to work onboard the yacht, believing it was “a healthful household tour.” As an alternative, O’Marcaigh claimed the voyage shortly advanced right into a “hedonistic surroundings” with drug use and a “fixed rotation of suspected intercourse staff.”
O’Marcaigh stated she was 25 years outdated when the incident befell. She was employed as a yacht steward to serve dinner and drinks all through the night time.
She stated she suspected some bottles of alcohol onboard had been laced with medication. O’Marcaigh alleged she noticed a number of ladies fall over, panic or change into unconscious after just one drink.
At one level within the night time, O’Marcaigh claims Christian, who she stated arrived on the yacht “closely intoxicated,” insisted she take photographs of tequila with him. O’Marcaigh stated she suspected the tequila was spiked with medication, as she felt unusual after consuming the liquor.
In her lawsuit, O’Marcaigh supplied the court docket with transcriptions of audio clips she maintains are proof of Christian groping her regardless of O’Marcaigh not consenting. The audio, in accordance with the lawsuit, was recorded within the yacht’s makeshift music studio, the place Christian and producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones had been working the night time of the get together.
(Jones has filed his personal lawsuit towards Diddy, whom he has labored with, accusing him of sexually harassing, drugging and threatening him over the span of a yr. Within the lawsuit, Jones stated he recorded hours of Diddy and his associates “participating in severe criminality.”)
Based on the transcriptions, O’Marcaigh requested Christian to cease touching her and declined to drink any extra alcohol. After continued pestering from Christian, O’Marcaigh instructed him within the transcript that she needed to depart to carry out different duties.
O’Marcaigh exited the makeshift studio however was later approached by Christian once more, who requested for her to rearrange someplace for him to sleep onboard. When she introduced him to the yacht cinema to sleep, O’Marcaigh alleges Christian blocked her contained in the room, groped her once more and eliminated his clothes.
O’Marcaigh stated Christian tried to drive her to carry out oral intercourse, and the alleged assault solely stopped when one other individual entered the room.
The lawsuit consists of pictures of bruises on O’Marcaigh’s forearms, allegedly from when Christian grabbed her within the cinema.
O’Marcaigh stated the yacht firm failed to research when she reported the alleged assault to the ship’s captain. She was terminated in Might 2023, following a number of months of obvious retaliation from the captain. She instructed the court docket she developed nervousness, suicidal ideation, an consuming dysfunction and seizures following the alleged incident with Christian.
O’Marcaigh’s lawyer used information of the compounding allegations towards Diddy to bolster the lawsuit towards Christian.
“Like father, like son,” Tyrone Blackburn stated after the lawsuit was filed. “It offers us no pleasure or pleasure in submitting this swimsuit towards Christian Combs, who has clearly adopted his father’s sample and apply of depravity.”
Her lawsuit is the primary to accuse Christian of sexual assault.
In an announcement to International Information, lawyer Aaron Dyer, who’s representing Christian and Diddy, took purpose at Blackburn particularly.
“That is simply one other lewd and meritless declare from Tyrone Blackburn — identical to what he filed within the Rodney Jones lawsuit, which he nonetheless has not served,” the assertion reads. “This criticism is full of the identical type of manufactured lies and irrelevant information we’ve come to count on from Blackburn. That is precisely why the federal decide in New York slapped him two days in the past for a ‘sample of habits’ in ‘improperly [filing] circumstances in federal court docket to garner media consideration, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and strain defendants to settle shortly,’ and why he was referred to the disciplinary committee within the Southern District of New York.”
Diddy has been on the centre of 5 sexual assault lawsuits in as many months. The primary noticed Combs’ longtime accomplice, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accuse the I’ll Be Lacking You rapper of repeated rape and bodily assault spanning practically a decade.
The swimsuit was settled the day after it was filed, although Combs’ lawyer launched an announcement claiming the settlement didn’t imply admission of any wrongdoing.
Should you or somebody is experiencing abuse or is concerned in an abusive state of affairs, please go to the Canadian Useful resource Centre for Victims of Crime for assist. They’re additionally reachable toll-free at 1-877-232-2610.
© 2024 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.
