Posted on: October 21, 2024, 06:49h.
Last updated on: October 21, 2024, 07:10h.
Las Vegas was the setting for one of seven new lawsuits charging Sean “Diddy” Combs with sexual abuse. It was filed on behalf of an unidentified Arizona woman who claims the rap mogul drugged and raped her at Planet Hollywood in 2014.
The alleged crime scene was Combs’ suite at the Las Vegas Strip casino resort, where he directed the plaintiff to an area with open bottles of alcohol. After two drinks, according to the court filing, the plaintiff felt disoriented, then woke up the next morning and “was horrified to realize she was raped by Combs.”
The civil complaint, alleging battery and false imprisonment, was one of seven filed Sunday against Combs in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee.
How It Began
The nightmare predicament began earlier that evening at a celebrity-studded Memorial Day pool party at Club Rehab at the former Hard Rock Hotel & Casino (now Virgin Hotels Las Vegas). Present at the party, according to the lawsuit, were Combs, Nicki Minaj, and Mary J. Blige and Lil’ Kim — both of whom Combs produced music for.
The plaintiff had been invited to Club Rehab by a promoter going by the alias “International Smoove.”
“Smoove made it clear that this was an exclusive celebrity party and plaintiff’s two friends were not invited, only plaintiff,” the lawsuit states. “Despite having some awkwardness with this prohibition, plaintiff, with the encouragement of her friends, decided to attend the party to network with the influential people there.”
Smoove then invited the plaintiff back to the after-party at Combs’ Planet Hollywood suite, where she recorded video of Combs before being offered a drink, which the lawsuit alleges was laced with the date-rape drug GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate).
“Plaintiff did as was suggested by Combs and took a few sips of what she thought to be vodka from one of the open bottles, but about 40 minutes after having 1-2 drinks from the Ciroc bottle, plaintiff began to feel nauseated and dizzy, slowly losing control of her motor functions,” the lawsuit states.
When the plaintiff told “Smoove” she didn’t feel well and needed to leave, according to the filing, he directed her to an empty bedroom in the suite and told her to lie down until she felt better.
“As soon as she awoke,” the complaint states, the plaintiff “saw Combs in the corner of the room, shirtless and yelling loudly and with animation at someone over the phone. He was the only person in the room with her and it was clear that someone else had been in the bed with her.”
According to the lawsuit, the woman waited for Combs to leave, then returned to the Rio, where her friends were staying. The complaint alleges that she then slept for two days, through several attempts by her friends to awaken her.
“In the aftermath of the assault, plaintiff struggled with intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed,” the lawsuit states. “Not a day goes by for plaintiff without thinking of the traumatic incident.”
Combs, 54, remains in custody in New York, where he is scheduled to stand trial in May 2025 on federal sex trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy charges.
