Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed on Tuesday by Crystal McKinney, a former model and winner of MTV’s 1998 Model Mission competition show. According to the complaint, filed in New York and obtained by CNN, McKinney claims that she was “drugged and sexually assaulted” in 2003 by Combs following a Men’s Fashion Week event in New York City. McKinney, who was 22 years old at the time, first met at a dinner, where he came on to her “in a sexually suggestive manner” and told her to call him later, the complaint alleges.
McKinney “felt confused but hopeful that Combs would fulfil his promises to help her career,” and Combs invited her to his recording studio later that night, the complaint continues. At the studio, Combs offered McKinney marijuana, which she claims was “laced” with “a narcotic or other intoxicating substance.” The complaint alleges Combs saw McKinney was “very intoxicated” and demanded her to follow him as he “physically led” her to the bathroom.
In the bathroom, he “began kissing her without her consent” and later “forced her to perform oral sex on him,” according to the complaint. After the assault, McKinney claims she felt “more and more woozy and then lost consciousness,” later waking up in a taxicab heading back to the apartment belonging to the designer she was working with at the time. “As her consciousness returned, Plaintiff realized that she had been sexually assaul.
