And yet another scandal has hit the legendary rapper and music tycoon Sean “Diddy” Combs. Former fashion student April Lampros came out with an accusation that Combs sexually assaulted her over twenty years ago.
Lampros, 51, filed a lawsuit under the Supreme Court of New York County claiming that Combs had physically abused and sexually assaulted her numerous times starting from 1995 up to the early 2000s. She claimed that he had physically mistreated her eight times while they were dating, one of which knocked her to ecstasy at the hands of Combs’ former girlfriend, Kim Porter, and forced her to sleep with Porter.
DIDDY is once again sued by a woman who accuses him of raping and drugging her during a party.
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Lampros, even went on to say that Combs had promised her mentorship and a possible fashion career opportunity. But, whatever started off as a mentor-mentee relationship became Lampros’ nightmare. Combs’s kind gestures became an aggressive, coercive, and abusive sexual relationship.
The complaint recounts a sordid chain of events. In 1995, for example, Lampros explains that Combs had dragged her out drinking in a bar and later in a hotel, where Combs essentially forced himself upon her, despite her repeated attempts to get him to stop. She awoke the next morning, naked, bruised, and bewildered.
On another occasion, Combs made Lampros perform fellatio on him in a parking garage outside his Manhattan apartment, with a parking attendant as witness. As per the complaint, due to the violent acts of Combs, Lampros was traumatized, morally injured, humiliated, and physically hurting.
Lampros tried to back away from Combs, but the latter reportedly turned “angry, threatening, and forceful.” The complaint further states that Combs had transformed into a figure from the mob, striking fear within Lampros.
The suit also alleges that one 1996 night, Combs forced Lampros and one of his ex-girlfriends to take ecstasy at his apartment and then demanded the two have sex. When Lampros protested, Combs threatened that he could make her lose her job. The lawsuit says that Combs then masturbated and raped Lampros.
Lampros broke up with Combs circa 1998. But they met thereafter, between the end or close of 2000 and early 2001. In that meeting, Combs is said to have violently grabbed Lampros and forced himself onto her, kissing and touching her against her will.
Such alleged incidents have caused the claimant Lampros to suffer and continue suffering damages, including bodily injury, severe emotional distress, humiliation, and anxiousness.
More recently, Lampros attests she was told that Combs recorded them in the past without her knowledge while they were having sex and had shown it to many others. She further alleges that Combs had an explosive temper and would often threaten to put out on her if she didn’t do things the way he wanted her to do such as talk to other men or didn’t take his telephone messages.
The suit has been filed by Lampros’ lawyer Tyrone Blackburn who is also representing some others who have filed suits against Combs. Other defendants named in the law-suit are Bad Boy Records, Arista Records and Sony Music Entertainment. The complaint has accused Arista Records of facilitating the sexual abusive act by positioning Combs as an authoritative figure and not taking measures to save Lampros.
Combs’s reputed most recent lawsuit was filed two days after the former model and winner of the 1998 contest-centered MTV show the Model Mission, Crystal McKinney, accused Combs of drugging and rape.
Combs is the target of a federal investigation headed by a Department of Homeland Security unit that probes human trafficking crimes. However, Aaron Dyer, attorney for Diddy personally, commented,
“With not one finding of criminal or civil culpability with any of these claims. Mr. Combs is an innocent man who’s always fought to clean his name every single day.”
As this case unfolds, it’s a chilling reminder of the power plays in the entertainment world. It is thus bringing out the issue of accountability for powerful people and that every other person, regardless of his status or position, will be handled with the due respect and dignity accruing to him.
This isn’t the first such allegation against Combs either. Lampros happens to be the Seventh person to report Combs for sexual assault in the last six months.
