Three men accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of rape and sexual assault in separate lawsuits filed Thursday that allege the rap impresario plied them with doctored drinks and then attacked them while they were unconscious.
The lawsuits, filed anonymously in New York state Supreme Court by lawyer Thomas Giuffra, involve incidents alleged to have happened from 2019 to 2022. All allege that Combs raped and sexually assaulted them.
One of the men, a longtime employee of Combs, told NBC News that he was raped in a New York hotel where he met Combs to discuss a “substantial amount of money” he was owed from his off-the-books job.
The man said that he worked for Combs from 2006 to 2018 running errands and that while they weren’t “buddy, buddy,” he also didn’t expect to be victimized when he met with him in early 2020. But inside the room, the man said, Combs served him a drink, and in “two minutes, I start to feel, like, just very tired, very sleepy.”
When he came to, he said, Combs was raping him, and when he tried to stop him, he said, Combs told him: “I’m almost done.”
“The phrase that just rattles in my brain all the time is ‘I’m almost done,'” he said. “Just stop, just stop moving. I’m almost finished. Like, I’m almost done.”
Giuffra told NBC News that the way the men allege Combs went after them was “very consistent, frighteningly consistent, exactly consistent. He would hit them with the drinks, knock them out.”
And when they woke up, “he’d be raping them,” Giuffra said.
The new complaints are the latest in a wave of lawsuits filed against Combs in recent months — all with the complainants withholding their names — accusing him of assault and rape under similar circumstances going back to the 1990s. Combs has been behind bars since September, when he was arrested by federal agents and accused of engaging in a yearslong scheme to sexually abuse and exploit women.
Prosecutors said Combs, among other things, used his business empire to coerce victims into elaborate, drug-fueled “freak offs” with male sex workers that he arranged, directed and recorded.
Combs, 55, who is being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, has pleaded not guilty to charges of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
His lawyers have said he is innocent of all charges. He has been denied bail three times ahead of his criminal trial, which is scheduled to start in May.