Diddy Faces New Sex Trafficking Allegations
It is looking more and more bleak for Diddy. Diddy faces new sex trafficking allegations in another lawsuit filed this week.
Diddy Faces New Sex Trafficking Allegations
According to ABC News, a lawsuit was filed on Wednesday (July 3) by a former adult film actress. Adria English, who performed under the name Omunique, says in the lawsuit she “has lived her adult life with the memories of being trapped in a cycle of sex trafficking she never asked to be a part of and was chosen because Defendant Combs knew he could groom her.”
According to this latest lawsuit, English met Diddy while she was working as a dancer at a club in New York. Her then-boyfriend, an aspiring model, auditioned for Diddy’s clothing company, Sean John, and was told he could work if English agreed to dance at parties Diddy hosted in the Hamptons and in Miami. The lawsuit states: “Plaintiff did not agree to a lifetime of aftermath of being used as a sexual pawn for the pleasure and financial benefit of others.”
English claims she was forced to drink alcohol and consume drugs and was then “passed off” to be sexually assaulted. The lawsuit also names a woman who English claims facilitated Diddy’s alleged sex trafficking operation. The complaint compares her to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for recruiting and grooming sex abuse victims for the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The woman “was to Defendant Combs as Ghislaine Maxwell was to Jeffrey Epstein,” the lawsuit said. It added that without the “woman using her inherent goodwill as a woman to gain the trust of another woman, coordinating and acting as an avatar for Defendant Combs, Defendant Combs would be unable to execute his corrupt sex trafficking organization.”
Diddy’s Lawyer Responds to the Allegations
Diddy’s attorney, Jonathan Davis, denied the allegations in a statement to ABC News. “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone,” the statement said. “We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason and without any proof. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail against these and other baseless claims in court.”
This is the tenth lawsuit racked against the rap mogul alleging physical abuse and sex trafficking. Diddy settled a lawsuit in November that was brought by his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura accusing him of sex trafficking and sex assault.
Diddy apologized in a video statement uploaded to his social media (which has since been deleted) in May after surveillance footage surfaced that appeared to show him beating Cassie in a hotel lobby. Without mentioning the surveillance footage specifically, the Bad Boy Records founder stated his actions in the footage were “inexcusable” and that he took “full responsibility.” Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to pursue charges against the father of seven after the video’s release. He has denied the sexual misconduct allegations in the lawsuits.
