Music mogul Sean “ Diddy ” Combs is facing a new lawsuit from a former fashion student April Lampros who says he sexually assaulted her multiple times between 1995 and the early 2000s. The allegations follow days after Combs, 54, took “full responsibility” for beating his ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura after CCTV video footage of the 2016 incident in a Los Angeles hotel hallway was released . In the new lawsuit – the seventh complaint of sexual assault filed against Combs in six months – Lampros said she met the rapper in 1994 while she was a college student at the Fashion Institue of Technology in New York.
The rapper “love-bombed her” and his advances later “manifested into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex,” according to the federal complaint filed in New York City. The lawsuit claims 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. It alleges that in 1995 Lampros met Combs at a bar in New York where she “succumbed to pressure” to drink alcohol after “delusional and violent outbursts”.
Lampros claims she began to feel like the “walls were closing in on her” after sipping her drink and Combs escorted her back to a hotel. The lawsuit alleges Combs forced himself on Lampros despite her protests. “Ms.
Lampros was being raped by Mr. Combs, and she soon passed out,” it says. The lawsuit claims Combs assaulted La.