Embattled music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a 22-year-old aspiring model after meeting her at a New York restaurant and luring her back to his music studio with the promise of helping her career, a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan claims. The new lawsuit — the sixth complaint for sexual assault filed against Combs in six months — alleges Combs met plaintiff Crystal McKinney in 2003 after an unidentified fashion designer invited her to a dinner at Cipriani Downtown during Men’s Fashion Week. According to the lawsuit, the male designer carefully crafted McKinney’s look to please Combs and then ordered her to sit directly across from Combs at the table.
“Once seated, Combs made a very public display of coming on to plaintiff in a sexually suggestive manner which continued throughout the dinner,” the filings states. “Throughout their interactions, Combs was flirtatious, bordering on leering, as he leaned across the table towards her. Combs also plied Plaintiff with alcohol throughout the dinner as he repeatedly refilled her glass with wine.
” The lawsuit alleges Combs invited McKinney back to his Manhattan recording studio, and she believed it was safe to join him there because it was a professional setting as opposed to a personal residence. She claims Combs passed her a joint that she believes was laced with a narcotic and then led her to a bathroom as she felt increasingly intoxicated, like “she .
