Rap mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a university student in 1991 in a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Thursday.
This is the second suit of its kind filed against the hip-hop icon in the past week.
The lawsuit claims Combs intentionally drugged and sexually assaulted Joi Dickerson-Neal, who was a Syracuse University student visiting New York City at the time of the alleged incident in January 1991.
He is also accused of videotaping the crime and distributing the tape to others in the music industry.
"The sexual assault, and public exposure of it, caused her to suffer overwhelming feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, violation, and constant apprehension about who all viewed it," lawyers for Dickerson-Neal wrote in the complaint.
Dickerson-Neal is seeking unspecified compensatory damages for mental and emotional injury, distress, pain, suffering, and injury to her reputation.
A spokesperson for Combs denied the allegations and added Dickerson-Neal's story is "made up and not credible," and that the rapper never assaulted her.
"This is purely a money grab and nothing more," the spokesperson said.
Combs, 54, founder of Bad Boy Records, is one of the most influential producers and executives in hip-hop, as well as the impresario of his own Sean John clothing line.
The complaint against Combs comes a week after he settled a lawsuit by his longtime partner, R&B singer Casandra Ventura, who once recorded for his label as Cassie, accusing him of physical and sexual abuse for over a decade. Combs had strongly denied all the allegations.
The suit is one of many filed this week against public figures under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which opened a one-year window to file sexual abuse claims that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations. The deadline to file the claims was Thursday.
The law allows such lawsuits to be filed in court even if the statute of limitations has run out.
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