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Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in a new lawsuit of “luring” a woman to one of his parties, where he sexually assaulted and drugged her nearly two decades ago, the new lawsuit alleges.
U the latest lawsuit against the music mogulLatroya Grayson accused Diddy from assault and violence after she won a radio contest in 2006 and received an all-expenses paid trip to New York to attend one of his “legendary” parties, the civil suit filed Dec. 20 said.
Grayson and her brother took part in a radio contest that won an all-expenses-paid vacation for two to New York City to attend the rapper’s “White Party.” Her sibling won, and the couple flew Delta Airlines from Oklahoma to New York to attend the “legendary” event, which later changed themes to “Black Party.”
After waiting 45 minutes to enter the party with the other pageant winners, Grayson was allowed in — but she and her sibling were separated, and she only later found out her brother wasn’t allowed in. “Individuals were not admitted to the party based on their position in line, but based on their attractiveness and attire,” the suit says.
While inside, Grayson, “who was by himself,” met celebrities, as well as someone who also claimed to be Diddy’s assistant.
There was no bar inside the building. Instead, waitresses offered visitors “ready drinks”; after downing less than two of these drinks, grayson felt nauseous and tried to go to the bathroom. She woke up at Saint Vincent’s Medical Center in New York — with “no memory or recollection of how she ended up in the hospital,” the suit says.
When she woke up, she noticed that she was not wearing underwear or shoes, that her shirt was torn and that she had $20 on her, but the rest of the money she was traveling with had been “stolen”.
She believed she had been drugged, assaulted and robbed, the lawsuit states.
That day, less than 24 hours after landing in New York for a party, she had to catch a flight back to Oklahoma.
The filing includes photos of Grayson at a party along with hospital records.
Back home, she received a call from a New York area code from an anonymous female caller who allegedly “threatened” Grayson. Any attempts to do anything about her attack would be futile, with the 23-year-old “just wasting her time” because Diddy was a “celebrity,” the woman reportedly said.
When Grayson asked how the caller got her phone number, the woman hung up. When Grayson tried to return the call, the number was disconnected, the suit says.
The anonymous caller’s comments were “even more shocking and traumatizing” as Grayson learned that not only had she been “viciously attacked”, but that Diddy “was involved” and that seeking justice for her injuries was out of the question because of his celebrity status, the complaint states.
In the week after the party, she “felt constant pain inside and outside her vagina,” concluding that she had had “rough intercourse” — even though, according to the lawsuit, she had no recollection of having intercourse at all.
However, she did not seek medical help or report the incident to the police, she said, because she was “scared and confused” by her memory lapses and the caller’s threats.
The attack and the fear that followed sent Grayson into a “headwind of anxiety and depression.”
She couldn’t hold down a job for more than a year after returning from a trip to New York City and struggled to maintain romantic relationships. Diddy “changed trajectory [Grayson’s] life,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit accuses Diddy of assault and battery.
It also accuses beleaguered music mogul, his media company Bad Boy Entertainment, Atlantic Records, Delta Airlines, KJAMZ 103.5 FM radio station and others for engaging in racketeering, negligence, infliction of emotional distress, as well as violations of the city’s Law on the Protection of Victims of Gender-Based Violence.
The lawsuit also accuses Bad Boy Entertainment, Atlantic Records and KJAMZ of negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention.
She “felt betrayed” by defendants Atlantic and KJAMZ because they “failed to protect her despite creating, promoting and financing the competition” that led to her alleged injuries and “lured her to an unsafe place without warning.”
The rapper is currently in federal prison in New York on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Diddy denied it all misdemeanor charges.