Crystal McKinney, a former model, has become the latest individual to file a lawsuit against US rapper and business tycoon, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
She alleges that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by him in 2003.
The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday at the federal district court in Manhattan. McKinney, who is now the sixth person to accuse Diddy of sexual assault, detailed her encounter with the rapper. She stated that she first met Diddy at a Men’s Fashion Week event at Cipriani Downtown in New York.
In her lawsuit, McKinney, who was 22 at the time, claimed that Diddy invited her to a gathering in New York City where he and several men were consuming alcohol and marijuana. She was offered a joint, which she later suspected had been spiked with a narcotic or other intoxicating substance.
McKinney alleges that despite her insistence that she had had enough, Combs pressured her to continue consuming alcohol and marijuana and coerced her into following him to the bathroom. She alleges that Diddy then forced himself upon her, initiated unwanted physical contact, and demanded oral sex.
McKinney claims that she resisted, but Diddy forced her into performing oral sex. She lost consciousness and later woke up in a taxi, realizing she had been sexually assaulted.
Following the incident, McKinney alleges that she was ostracized from the modeling industry, fell into severe depression, and attempted suicide in 2004.
Motivated by the lawsuits filed by Cassie, Diddy’s ex-girlfriend, and other women, McKinney felt a moral obligation to come forward.
Diddy first came under scrutiny in November 2023 when Cassie accused him of rape, abuse, and human trafficking during their decade-long relationship. However, the lawsuit was settled out of court the day after it was filed.
Subsequent to his case with Cassie, Diddy faced another sexual assault lawsuit filed in the Manhattan supreme court. Joi Dickerson-Neal, a woman from Syracuse University, accused Diddy of drugging and raping her in 1991. On the same day, a third woman accused Diddy and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall of sexually assaulting her and a friend in New York City over 30 years ago.
In December, a fourth woman accused Diddy, Harve Pierre, the former president of Bad Boy Entertainment, and another individual of sex trafficking and gang rape when she was 17.
On February 26, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a former producer and videographer for Diddy, filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and drugging by the rapper.
The most recent lawsuit was filed on Tuesday by McKinney.
