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A woman who met Sean “Diddy” Combs while a student at New York City’s Fashion Institute of Technology in the 1990s has become the seventh person in six months to accuse the music mogul of sexual assault. April Lamprose’s lawsuit against Mr Combs was filed by her attorney Tyrone Blackburn on Thursday in New York State Supreme Court and alleged multiple harrowing sexual assaults between 1995 and the early 2000s. Ms Lampros, now 51, recalled how her eyes filled with tears during one incident as an “inebriated” Combs grabbed her by the hair, yanked her to her knees, and forced her to perform oral sex on him in a public parking garage in Manhattan as a parking attendant watched, according to the lawsuit obtained by The Independent.

She was in “shock, morally depleted, embarrassed, and in physical agony because of Mr. Combs violently yanking her down to her knees and pulling her hair,” the suit alleged. Ms Lampros met Combs while she was an intern at Arista, which at the time was the parent company of the rapper’s label Bad Boy Entertainment.



The rapper “love-bombed her” but his advances later “manifested into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex,” according to the complaint, and “there were four terrifying sexual encounters Ms Lampros endured” at the hands of Combs. When the student attempted to distance herself from the rapper following the alleged assaults, he gave her “gifts and empty promises” before turning “angry, .

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