Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was sued twice in the same week by two different women, both of whom are accusing him of sexual assault. That makes eight lawsuits total.
An eighth person has filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the embattled mogul of sexual assault, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress and violation of the victims of gender-motivated violence protection law, according to court documents reviewed by The Times.
April Lampros, whose lawyers submitted the lawsuit Thursday in New York, is the seventh person to accuse Combs of sexual assault in recent months. She also sued Bad Boy Records and Arista Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, for allegedly enabling Combs’ behavior.
His representatives did not immediately respond Friday to The Times’ request for comment.
In her lawsuit, Lampros said she endured “four terrifying sexual encounters” with Combs in the mid-1990s and early 2000s. She was dissuaded from talking about her relationship with Combs because “he did not want anyone to know he was seeing her because she is a white woman,” the lawsuit said.
Lampros met Combs in early 1994 when she was a college student at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, according to the lawsuit. Upon learning of her interest in the fashion industry, Combs offered to mentor her, promising work opportunities.
Combs “love-bombed” her, she alleged, by repeatedly sending gifts and flowers and inviting her to events. The “kind gestures” then spun into an “aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex,” the lawsuit said.
In 1995, Lampros met up with Combs and an unnamed woman at a bar in New York‘s SoHo neighborhood, the suit alleges. The group “lightly drank” throughout the evening, which Lampros said she felt pressured to do so because of Combs’ “delusional and violent outbursts.
