Rapper and Music Mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Facing Multiple Civil Lawsuits Alleging Sex Trafficking and Rape

The Latest Allegations Against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

Sean “Diddy” Combs, a rapper and music mogul credited with helping launch the careers of some of the biggest stars in recent years, is now facing multiple civil lawsuits accusing him of sex trafficking, sexual abuse, and rape.

Combs, formerly known as Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, and a host of other names, has undergone a myriad of reinventions since the start of his career – but has since entered a new and unwelcome “era.”

Federal agents with US Homeland Security raided two of the rapper’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami on 25 March as he faces a string of varying accusations.

All the Allegations against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs:

Casandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura

R&B singer Cassie, whose full name is Casandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit in 2023 alleging that she was trafficked, raped, and beaten by Combs on many occasions over 10 years.

Her lawsuit claimed that Combs brought the singer into his “ostentatious, fast-paced, and drug-fueled lifestyle” not long after she met him, and signed her to his label in 2005 when she was just 19 and he was 37.

Ms Ventura said that the pattern of abuse began as soon as their relationship started and that, as she was trying to end it in 2018, he forced himself into her Los Angeles home and raped her.

The lawsuit against Combs was settled a day after she filed it for an undisclosed amount of money.

Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones

In the most recent lawsuit against Combs, filed on 26 February 2024 in New York, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones alleged he was “subjected to unwanted advances by associates of Diddy at his direction” and that he was forced to engage in relations with the sex workers Combs had hired.

The producer, who worked for Combs between September 2022 and November 2023, claimed Combs sexually harassed, drugged, and threatened him for more than a year.

He said he has video and audio evidence of Combs, his staff, and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.” The lawsuit identified Rapper 50 Cent‘s former girlfriend and the mother of one of his children, Daphne Joy, as one of the alleged sex workers.

The lawsuit also alleges that Combs regularly hosted “sex-trafficking parties” with underage women and illegal drugs and implies record label executives who looked the other way financially benefited from access to celebrities and dignitaries, including the British royal Prince Harry.

Prince Harry is not accused of any wrongdoing or of attending parties himself.

Joie Dickerson-Neal

In November 2023, Joie Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs drugged her, sexually assaulted her, and secretly recorded the assault while she was a college student in 1991.

She claimed that Combs pushed her to go to dinner with him, and she agreed “reluctantly” on 3 January 1991, which is when she alleges she was drugged, “resulting in her being in a physical state where she could not independently stand or walk.”

The suit also claims he recorded the assault and showed it to other people.

More Women Come Forward

Since November, three more women have come forward with lawsuits in the Southern District of New York alleging that they were sexually assaulted by Combs, according to NBC News.

Two of the women said they were teenagers at the time of the alleged assaults.

Anonymous Plaintiff

In November, an anonymous plaintiff accused Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall of raping her and a friend in 1990 or 1991 after meeting at an MCA Records event in New York, where the singers “were very flirtatious and handsy” and offered them drinks.

The suit alleges that Combs and Hall invited the women to Hall’s apartment for an afterparty, where the plaintiff “was offered more drinks and was coerced into having sex with Combs” and was “shocked and traumatized” afterwards, before “Hall barged into the room, pinned her down, and forced Jane Doe to have sex with him.”

After she spoke to her friend, the plaintiff allegedly found out she had also “been forced to have sex with Combs and Hall in another room.”

A few days later, Combs allegedly visited the plaintiff and her friend at a home where they were staying, where he became “irate and began assaulting and choking Jane Doe to the point that she passed out.”

Unnamed Accuser ‘Jane Doe’

In December, Combs was hit with another lawsuit, which claimed he had drugged and gang-raped a 17-year-old girl in 2003.

The plaintiff, identified as Jane Doe, accused Combs of plying her with drugs and alcohol at his New York studio and then raping her along with two associates.

The suit accused Combs of a “sex-trafficking scheme,” in which Jane Doe was flown by private jet from her home in Michigan to New York.

Combs’s Response to Allegations

Sean Combs has strongly denied all the accusations against him and vowed to “fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”

In a statement, he called the claims “sickening” and said his accusers were “looking for a quick payday.”

Combs’ lawyer, Shawn Holley, branded the events described in the lawsuit as “pure fiction.”