Lawsuit naming Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs as co-defendant alleges his son sexually assaulted lady on yacht

LOS ANGELES — A lawsuit that names Sean “Diddy” Combs as a co-defendant alleges that his son Christian “King” Combs sexually assaulted a lady engaged on a yacht chartered by his father.
The swimsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket says that Sean Combs created the circumstances that led to the assault, and paid to cowl it up afterward. It’s the most recent in a collection of lawsuits accusing the producer and music mogul of sexual misconduct, and it comes amid a federal intercourse trafficking investigation that led Homeland Safety brokers to raid his houses in Los Angeles and Miami final week.
Grace O’Marcaigh, who labored as a crew member and a bartender on the boat, says that in late December of 2022, Christian Combs pressured her to drink tequila that she believes was spiked with different medicine. He groped her breasts and genitals and tried to pressure her to carry out oral intercourse, the swimsuit alleges.
The AP doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused except they arrive ahead publicly, as O’Marcaigh has accomplished. She additionally consented to being named by way of her attorneys.
Combs’ lawyer Aaron Dyer didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail looking for remark from The Related Press. Dyer stated after final week’s raids that Sean Combs “is harmless and can proceed to struggle each single day to clear his identify,” and that the investigation is “nothing greater than a witch hunt based mostly on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”
He informed the Los Angeles Instances that the most recent lawsuit is a “lewd and meritless declare” stuffed with “manufactured lies.”
Sean Combs, who chartered the yacht all through the vacations in 2022, “had full management of the employees and premises” and “turned what was bought as a healthful household tour right into a hedonistic surroundings,” the swimsuit stated. The courtroom submitting alleges he created circumstances the place her assault was not solely tolerated however inspired.
O’Marcaigh, who was 25 on the time, stated when Christian Combs, then 24, got here aboard late one night time, he appeared closely intoxicated, and commenced giving her inappropriate consideration.
She stated the 2 had been in a music studio on board the ship, the place producer Rodney Jones, who filed his personal lawsuit in February, was informed to be obtainable across the clock for Sean Combs to work on his subsequent album.
O’Marcaigh stated within the swimsuit that Christian Combs was insistent that she take pictures of tequila, and she or he drank out of obligation.
The swimsuit alleges he grew to become more and more aggressive along with her, violently grabbing her arm as she tried to get out of the scenario then groping her. The drinks made every thing blurry, unusually rapidly, the swimsuit says.
Microphones within the studio, the place Jones was informed to seize every thing, recorded their change, and the lawsuit features a transcript the place O’Marcaigh calls for that Christian Combs cease touching her.
The swimsuit alleges that he later continued the assault within the ship’s movie show, which was used as a spare sleeping space and the place she was looking for a spot to spend the night time as a result of the rooms had been all taken, earlier than one other crew member appeared and he stopped.
O’Marcaigh informed the yacht’s captain in regards to the assault the next morning, however she alleges that after Combs gave him a considerable amount of money the identical day, the captain didn’t meaningfully examine or take any motion.
The swimsuit says O’Marcaigh was ultimately fired in retaliation, and has since been unable to seek out work within the music trade the place she had deliberate to construct a profession. It says since 2022, she has suffered extreme emotional trauma.
The lawsuit seeks damages to be decided at trial.
Christian Combs can be a musical artist whose music “Can’t Cease Gained’t Cease” with Kodak Black topped Billboard’s Mainstream R&B Hip-Hop charts in 2022. He was at his father’s Los Angeles house throughout final week’s searches, throughout which he and his brother had been handcuffed, however weren’t arrested.
The producer Jones’ lawsuit, filed by the identical lawyer as O’Marcaigh’s in February, contains allegations that Sean Combs coerced him to solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have intercourse with them.
It was certainly one of a number of lawsuits which have introduced public scrutiny to the music and enterprise mogul, starting with a November lawsuit from his former protege and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, which alleged years of sexual abuse, together with rape. It was settled the next day.
Combs and his attorneys have denied the entire lawsuits’ allegations.
Combs, a three-time Grammy winner and the founding father of Dangerous Boy Information, is among the many most influential hip-hop producers and executives of the previous three a long time. He turned his hip-hop empire right into a broader enterprise empire that features private-label spirits, style, and a TV community.