Colleen Shalby | Los Angeles Times (TNS) A former model has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault in a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in New York. The lawsuit alleges that in 2003, Combs assaulted model Crystal McKinney at his music studio after a Men’s Fashion Week dinner. According to the suit, Combs invited McKinney, then 22, to the New York City space, where he and a group of men were drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana.
McKinney said she was offered a joint, which she later came to believe had been laced with a “narcotic or other intoxicating substance.” After she “insisted that she had enough,” she said, Combs pressured her to continue drinking and smoking and “demanded” she follow him to the bathroom. There, the suit alleges, Combs “forced himself” on McKinney, kissing her without her consent and pushing her head down to his crotch.
Despite her refusals, she said, he then forced her to perform oral sex. Combs then led McKinney back into the studio, where she passed out, according to the lawsuit. When she awoke, she was alone in a taxicab headed back to the home of an unnamed fashion designer who had introduced McKinney and Combs earlier that night.
McKinney said that she realized she had been assaulted once she regained consciousness. McKinney’s attorneys were not immediately available to clarify whether her realization was in regard to the allegations of forced oral sex, or to some other event that occurred while she was unconscious. Combs.
