Disturbing new allegations have surfaced towards Sean “Diddy” Combs and his bodyguard as a girl claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted by the pair in 2001, saying that was recorded with out and distributed her consent.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York federal courtroom, Thalia Graves alleges she was 25 when she met Combs, now 54, by her boyfriend, who labored at his Dangerous Boy file label.
The claims come days after Combs was indicted on intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees.
“The inner ache after being sexually assaulted has been extremely deep and laborious to place into phrases,” Graves stated throughout a press convention on Tuesday. “It goes past simply the bodily hurt brought about in the course of the assault. It is a ache that reaches into the very core of who I’m leaving emotional scars that will by no means absolutely heal.”
Graves says she turned “lightheaded, dizzy and bodily weak,” after accepting a glass of wine whereas in a automobile with Combs and Joseph Sherman, his bodyguard and head of safety, across the summer season of 2001.
When she awakened, Graves says she was in a Manhattan studio along with her arms tied behind her again. The lawsuit alleges Combs entered the room and raped her, smashing her head right into a pool desk when she tried to withstand.
Sherman additionally sexually assaulted her as she got here out and in of consciousness, in accordance with the go well with.
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The grievance states Graves discovered concerning the existence of a recording of the alleged assault in November 2023—across the similar time Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit with bombshell allegations, together with bodily abuse and Combs forcing her to have intercourse with male intercourse employees whereas he filmed it.
Graves says that she continues to undergo emotional hurt, together with psychological anguish, emotional misery, humiliation, and bodily injury.
In a press convention held by Graves’ high-profile lawyer Gloria Allred, she alleges Combs and one other defendant “printed and/or disseminated the movies with out the plaintiff’s data or consent on data and perception.”
When requested if the opposite individual alleged to be in Graves’ video is a celeb, Allred responded, “Not so far as I do know.”
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Thalia Graves Provides Emotional Assertion
Via tears, Graves made the next assertion at Tuesday’s press convention:
“A number of the hardest elements of this ache are the disgrace and guilt I’ve skilled that performs a damaging half in my day-to-day capability to perform correctly. Being blamed, questioned and threatened has typically made me really feel nugatory, remoted and typically liable for what occurred to me. My household points made the ache even worse. I used to be already going by a divorce on the time of the assault and didn’t get the assist I wanted. I used to be additionally confronted with disbelief and judgment.”
“This has put a pressure on my number of males in relationships the place they turn into aggressive and abusive which has made me really feel much more alone in my struggles. I’m going by spells of being so distant and withdrawn that it’s typically laborious to depart my home.”
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“The trauma of the assault has taken a toll on my psychological well being. I’ve PTSD, despair, and anxiousness. I’m emotionally scarred. It has been laborious for me to belief others, type wholesome relationships, or really feel secure in my very own pores and skin. Flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive ideas make my life really feel like a relentless wrestle. I additionally undergo with bodily issues, corresponding to power ache, and sexual discomfort.”
“The violation I’ve skilled in the course of the assault have had lasting results on my physique, inflicting ongoing well being issues and issues. The mixture of bodily and emotional ache has created a cycle of affected by which it’s laborious to interrupt free.”
“I wish to proceed on this journey towards restoration and therapeutic.”
“I’m glad that he’s locked up however that is a short lived feeling of aid.”
Graves didn’t take any questions from reporters after delivering her assertion.
Combs is presently being held on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn.
For those who or somebody you realize has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to https://www.rainn.org/
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