EXCLUSIVE: A New York lady says she was dosed with a date rape drug after which deserted on a Manhattan road after attending a Sean “Diddy” Combs live performance throughout a tour together with his former group, Diddy-Soiled Cash, and getting invited backstage.
The girl, who requested to not be recognized amid fears of retaliation from the billionaire mogul, advised Fox Information Digital she and a pal chatted up a safety guard at a Hammerstein Ballroom live performance on April 22, 2011, and received to fulfill the performer earlier than he stepped in entrance of the gang.
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She has employed Lengthy Island lawyer Bob Macedonio, who beforehand represented Combs’ hip-hop rival 50 Cent, to deal with her case.
This picture, supplied by the accuser, reveals her, a pal and two different girls after she says they have been invited backstage at a Diddy live performance in New York Metropolis on April 22, 2011. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)
“We’re investigating and potentially going to bring action,” Macedonio advised Fox Information Digital. “We are in the process of obtaining any and all police and medical records and interviewing witnesses.”
Her harrowing story was corroborated by her mom, who stated she met her on the hospital within the aftermath of the alleged drugging, however police stated they might not discover information of the incident.
“One of the girls I was close with was talking to (Combs’) security guard, and she got us backstage to speak to him and hang out,” the accuser advised Fox Information Digital. “We went down to this room that was covered in balloons and Ciroc from one wall to the other.”
“It taught me a lesson — now I cover my drinks everywhere I go and drink out of the bottle.”
She supplied pictures from the evening in query that share some similarities with archive pictures taken of Combs on stage throughout that efficiency. He has the identical haircut and goatee and seems to be sporting the identical sun shades and necklace.
The accuser remembers being taken to the aspect of the stage, backstage, the place individuals have been handing out vodka drinks.
“They handed us a drink, and literally that’s all I remember,” she stated. “I heard music, loud noise just coming from the stage, and then don’t remember anything else after that.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs of Diddy-Soiled Cash performs at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis on April 22, 2011. (D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)
She awakened on a Manhattan sidewalk, close to her parked automotive, hours later.
“I was like, what the f— happened?” the lady stated. Her pal, whom she has since misplaced contact with, additionally blacked out, she stated. “It’s very traumatizing not to remember.”
The accuser stated she tried driving residence to suburban Lengthy Island and felt so unwell she referred to as her mom and went to a hospital, the place she underwent a sexual assault examination.
Sean “Diddy” Combs gestures at a lady on this picture supplied by an accuser who says she was invited backstage by the mogul throughout a 2011 live performance on the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis. (Obtained by Fox Information Digital)
Her underwear had been torn open, and she or he stated she later gave it to police as proof. Though the lady stated she spoke with a police officer on the hospital, Suffolk County police stated they’d no file of it.
Checks discovered the presence of date rape medicine in her system, she stated, however no indicators of penetration.
The girl stated she discovered a bunch of unfamiliar numbers added to her cellphone and tried reaching out to piece collectively what occurred. She referred to as one and a person answered and invited her to Atlantic Metropolis, she stated. One other picked up, gaslit her and hung up.
“This guy was like, ‘Oh, you were fine,'” she stated. “I said, ‘No I was not fine, somebody slipped me something’…Nobody wanted to say anything.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs of Diddy-Soiled Cash performs at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York Metropolis on April 22, 2011. (D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)
Her lawyer requested her medical information from that evening earlier this 12 months, after information of a federal investigation into Combs emerged. Nevertheless, in a letter, the hospital stated her medical paperwork had been “purged,” “in accordance with state medical record retention requirements.”
A hospital spokesperson stated intercourse assault examination information, additionally referred to as SAFE or SANE information, are handled and saved in a different way than normal medical information. Macedonio stated he deliberate to have his shopper request the SANE information particularly.
“I remember getting a phone call… that she woke up, and that she didn’t know where she was or what happened,” the lady’s mom stated. “Her underwear was off.”
She raced to the hospital, she stated, accompanied her daughter for the SANE examination and stated she adopted up with police later, though the case went nowhere.
The accuser stated she determined to rent a lawyer after federal investigators raided Combs’ mansions in Miami and Los Angeles earlier this 12 months. He has since been arrested on federal intercourse trafficking expenses and is being held with out bail. On the identical time, he faces a slew of civil lawsuits involving related allegations.
Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted a minor in a brand new lawsuit filed Monday. (Getty Photographs)
“Not knowing what happened to me, that really messes with your brain,” the New York lady advised Fox Information Digital. “Now, to hear all this stuff that came out, it’s horrific, especially if this man did stuff to younger kids.”
“It taught me a lesson — now I cover my drinks everywhere I go and drink out of the bottle,” she stated.
This picture repeatedly seems in a number of the lawsuits towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, described as “an actual exemplary container” allegedly utilized by Combs and alleged conspirators “to insert GHB into alcoholic drinks.” GHB is a typical date rape drug. (Southern District of NY)
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Reps for Combs didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the lady’s accusations.
Combs is being held with out bail at a jail in Brooklyn on federal intercourse trafficking and racketeering expenses. He pleaded not responsible. The felony trial is predicted to start on Could 5.
Combs can also be going through greater than a dozen intercourse assault lawsuits, and attorneys for the victims count on to file many extra.
Should you or somebody has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
