Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sued by a woman who claims the rapper raped her and recorded the assault.
Alleged victim Thalia Graves says the 54-year-old music mogul and his head of security Joseph Sherman raped her at Bad Boy Records studios in New York in 2001, she said. Rolling Stone.
This is the latest legal filing against the rapper, who is in jail awaiting trial after being charged with extortion and drug trafficking last week.
Graves claims she was 25 and dating one of the rapper’s employees when Diddy lured her into a meeting, saying he wanted to “discuss her boyfriend’s alleged performance issues.”
According to her lawsuit, Diddy and Sherman “kidnapped” her and gave her a drink “likely laced with a drug that ultimately caused her to briefly lose consciousness.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sued by a woman who claims the rapper raped her and recorded the assault.
Graves says she woke up tied up and restrained before Diddy and Sherman sexually assaulted her, raping her anally and vaginally.
The woman has contemplated suicide, has been forced to undergo extensive psychological treatment and continues to suffer from severe depression following the alleged assault, the lawsuit adds.
Graves also claims he was unaware Diddy and Sherman had recorded the assault until November 2023, when they allegedly showed the footage to several men.
The suit claims Graves’ ex-boyfriend “revealed that Combs and Sherman had a pattern and practice of non-consensually recording women engaging in sexual acts and making those videos available to the public, including selling the tapes as pornography.”
Gloria Allred represents Graves and the two will hold a news conference later Tuesday.
Graves is the 11th person to publicly accuse Diddy of sexual assault.
The rapper is locked up in Brooklyn awaiting trial on allegations he presided over a sordid empire of sex crimes protected by blackmail and shocking acts of violence.
He has been in federal custody since his arrest Monday night at the Manhattan hotel.
Diddy, seen at right in court, headed to jail Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid sex crimes empire.
The music artist was seen making a prayer gesture while chatting with fans before being arrested.
On Tuesday, a federal magistrate denied his initial request for bail. On Wednesday, he and his lawyers faced a second judge, who will preside over his trial.
Diddy is accused of inducing female victims and male sex workers to perform drugged sexual acts, sometimes lasting several days, called “freak offs.”
Searches of his properties are said to have uncovered 1,000 bottles of baby oil, and prosecutors say the women involved in the sexual encounters were so exhausted from marathon sex sessions that they needed IV fluids afterwards.
The allegation also indirectly refers to an attack on his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, which was captured on video published earlier this year by CNN.
In court, Agnifilo acknowledged that Diddy was “not a perfect person,” saying he had used drugs and been in “toxic relationships” but was receiving treatment and therapy.
He maintained the case stemmed from a long-term consensual relationship that collapsed amid infidelity. He did not name the woman, but the details matched those of Diddy’s decade-long relationship with Cassie, whose legal name is Casandra Ventura.
The ‘Freak Offs’, Agnifilo argued, were an expansion of that relationship, and not a coercive one.
Prosecutors said the scope of the case was broader and said they had interviewed more than 50 victims and witnesses.
Like many aging hip-hop figures, the Bad Boy Records founder had managed to create a suave public image. The father of seven was a respected businessman whose annual party in the Hamptons was once a must-attend event for the high society elite.
But prosecutors said he facilitated his crimes using the same companies, people and methods that catapulted him to power. They said they would prove the charges with financial and travel records, electronic communications and videos of the “Freak Offs.”
Prosecutor Emily Johnson, who argued that Diddy should remain in prison, said the once-celebrated rapper has a long history of intimidating both accusers and witnesses of his alleged abuse. She cited text messages from women who said Diddy forced them into Freak Offs and then threatened to leak videos of them engaging in sexual acts.
Johnson relied on a text message from a woman who said Combs dragged her down a hallway by her hair. According to Johnson, the woman told the rapper, “I’m not a rag doll, I’m somebody’s daughter.”