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Sean 'Diddy' Combs faces new sex assault allegations in woman's lawsuit

By Dave Collins law. Fame and wealth do
Associated Press not protect Sean ‘Diddy’
(AP) - Sean “Diddy” Combs Combs from serious allega-
was hit with new sexual as- tions of sex trafficking and
sault allegations Friday as abuse.”
a woman filed a lawsuit in On Tuesday, another wom-
New York saying she was an sued Combs, alleging
repeatedly raped and that the music mogul and
drugged at the music mo- his head of security raped
gul's homes and became her and recorded it on vid-
pregnant after one of the eo at his New York recording
encounters. studio in 2001.
It's the latest of several Combs remains jailed with-
similar lawsuits by women out bail in New York on the
against Combs, who also federal charges alleging he
was arrested last week on ran a vast network that fa-
a federal sex trafficking in- cilitated sexual crimes and
dictment. committed shocking acts
The lawsuit was filed against of violence, using blackmail
Combs, his companies and and other tactics to protect
several associates and Combs and those close to
seeks undisclosed damag- him.
es for physical injuries, se- He pleaded not guilty to
vere emotional distress, hu- racketeering conspiracy
miliation, anxiety and other and sex trafficking. His attor-
harms. A lawyer for Combs, ney said he is innocent and
his company and one of Sean Combs arrives at the Pre-Grammy Gala And Salute To Industry Icons at the Beverly Hilton will fight to clear his name.
his representatives did not Hotel on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Earlier this month, Combs
immediately return emails (Photo by Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP, File) admitted that he beat his
seeking comment Friday. including monthly in 2021 told Combs it was positive, Joseph Ciaccio, also alleges ex-girlfriend Cassie in a hotel
The woman in the latest law- and 2022. she says. A Combs associ- Combs and his associates hallway in 2016 and apolo-
suit, identified by the pseud- “At every visit, (Combs) ate repeatedly demanded tracked her location and gized after CNN released
onym Jane Doe, accuses would make her ‘perform she get an abortion, and monitored her conversa- video of the attack.
Combs of sexually assault- a show’ for him and would she had a miscarriage, she tions. She says Combs dis- Combs, 54, is one of the
ing her while she was un- ply her with alcohol and asserts. couraged her from working best-known music execu-
conscious from drugs, and substances until she passed This past July, Doe says, and gave her an “allow- tives, producers and per-
it alleges Combs and his ac- out — she would wake up Combs “commanded” ance” that he used to con- formers across hip-hop,
quaintances recorded sex- with bruising and injuries but her to go to his home in trol her. having won three Grammys
ual encounters without her with no recollection of how Miami, where she alleges “Powerful figures in the en- and worked with artists such
permission. She says that she she sustained her injuries,” Combs shoved two pills in tertainment industry have as Notorious B.I.G., Mary J.
met Combs overseas in fall the lawsuit says. her mouth. She says that long exploited aspiring art- Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith
2020 and that the assaults In a July 2022 encounter the next morning, she felt ists and fans," Napoli said in Evans and 112. He founded
and harassment continued with Combs at his Los An- ill and confused and could a statement. "Recent high- Bad Boy Records in 1993,
through July this year. geles home, the woman al- not remember what had profile lawsuits aim to hold the influential fashion line
Doe says she often was co- leges in the lawsuit, she was happened the night before, these celebrities account- Sean John, a vodka brand
erced and harassed into forced to ingest drugs she and that the bedroom was able, potentially transform- and the Revolt TV network.
traveling to Combs' homes believes included ketamine in disarray. ing industry practices and He sold off his stake in the
in New York, Los Angeles and blacked out. She later Doe, being represented by providing justice for vic- latter company in June of
and Miami and other cities, took a pregnancy test and attorneys Marie Napoli and tims. No one is above the this year.q

Footage of motorcade racing JFK to the hospital after he was shot

sells for $137,500 at auction

President John F. Kennedy's first lady Jacqueline Ken- sixth floor. The assassination
motorcade speeding down nedy but capturing other itself was famously cap-
a Dallas freeway toward a vehicles in the motorcade tured on film by Abraham
hospital after he was fatally as it traveled down Lemmon Zapruder.
wounded sold at auction Avenue toward downtown. Carpenter's footage from
Saturday for $137,500. The film then picks up after I-35, which lasts about 10
The 8 mm color home film Kennedy has been shot, seconds, shows Secret Ser-
was offered up by RR Auc- with Carpenter rolling as vice Agent Clint Hill — who
tion in Boston. The auction the motorcade roars down famously jumped onto the
house said the buyer wishes Interstate 35. back of the limousine as the
to remain anonymous. The shots had fired as the shots rang out — hovering in
An undated image released by RR Auction shows home film The film has been with the motorcade passed through a standing position over the
footage of President John F. Kennedy's motorcade speeding family of the man who took Dealey Plaza in front of the president and Jacqueline
down a Dallas freeway to the hospital after he was fatally it, Dale Carpenter Sr., since Texas School Book Deposito- Kennedy, whose pink suit
wounded on Nov. 22, 1963. he recorded it on Nov. 22, ry, where it was later found can be seen. The president
(RR Auction via AP, File) 1963. It begins as Carpen- that assassin Lee Harvey Os- was pronounced dead af-
By James Stengle DALLAS (AP) — Newly ter just misses the limousine wald had positioned himself ter arriving at Parkland Me-
Associated Press emerged film footage of carrying the president and from a sniper’s perch on the morial Hospital.q