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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 girl whereas she labored onboard a yacht chartered by Diddy in 2022.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday within the Los Angeles County Superior Court, comes after Diddy’s houses have been raided as a part of an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation by federal authorities. During the raid, Christian and Diddy’s older son, Justin Combs, have been each handcuffed and detained however not arrested.
Beyond the federal investigation, Diddy’s authorized troubles lengthen to a number of sexual assault and rape lawsuits, which Diddy has dismissed as “character assassination” and an try at “a quick payday.”
Now, Christian, 26, is dealing with allegations of his personal made by Grace O’Marcaigh, who mentioned the rapper’s son drugged and sexually assaulted her in December 2022 throughout a yacht journey organized by Diddy.
According to NBC News, 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 known as O’Marcaigh’s lawsuit “manufactured lies and irrelevant facts.” The lawyer maintained Christian and Diddy’s innocence and mentioned they might file a movement to dismiss “this outrageous claim.”
In her lawsuit, O’Marcaigh mentioned she’d been employed to work onboard the yacht, believing it was “a wholesome family excursion.” Instead, O’Marcaigh claimed the voyage rapidly advanced right into a “hedonistic environment” with drug use and a “constant rotation of suspected sex workers.”
O’Marcaigh mentioned she was 25 years previous when the incident came about. She was employed as a yacht steward to serve dinner and drinks all through the evening.
She mentioned 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 evening, O’Marcaigh claims Christian, who she mentioned arrived on the yacht “heavily intoxicated,” insisted she take pictures of tequila with him. O’Marcaigh mentioned she suspected the tequila was spiked with medication, as she felt unusual after consuming the liquor.
In her lawsuit, O’Marcaigh offered the courtroom with transcriptions of audio clips she maintains are proof of Christian groping her regardless of O’Marcaigh not consenting. The audio, based on the lawsuit, was recorded within the yacht’s makeshift music studio, the place Christian and producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones have been working the evening of the social gathering.
(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 12 months. In the lawsuit, Jones mentioned he recorded hours of Diddy and his associates “engaging in serious illegal activity.”)
According to the transcriptions, O’Marcaigh requested Christian to cease touching her and declined to drink any extra alcohol. After continued pestering from Christian, O’Marcaigh advised him within the transcript that she needed to go away 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 mentioned Christian tried to power 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 mentioned the yacht firm failed to analyze when she reported the alleged assault to the ship’s captain. She was terminated in May 2023, following a number of months of obvious retaliation from the captain. She advised the courtroom she developed anxiousness, 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 mentioned after the lawsuit was filed. “It gives us no joy or pleasure in filing this suit against Christian Combs, who has clearly adopted his father’s pattern and practice of depravity.”
Her lawsuit is the primary to accuse Christian of sexual assault.
In an announcement to Global News, lawyer Aaron Dyer, who’s representing Christian and Diddy, took goal at Blackburn particularly.
“This is just another lewd and meritless claim from Tyrone Blackburn — just like what he filed in the Rodney Jones lawsuit, which he still has not served,” the assertion reads. “This complaint is filled with the same kind of manufactured lies and irrelevant facts we’ve come to expect from Blackburn. This is exactly why the federal judge in New York slapped him two days ago for a ‘pattern of behavior’ in ‘improperly [filing] cases in federal court to garner media attention, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and pressure defendants to settle quickly,’ and why he was referred to the disciplinary committee in the Southern District of New York.”
Diddy has been on the centre of 5 sexual assault lawsuits in as many months. The first noticed Combs’ longtime associate, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accuse the I’ll Be Missing You rapper of repeated rape and bodily assault spanning almost 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.
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