Another woman has to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, alleging the hip-hop mogul assaulted her four times between 1995 and the early 2000s, according to court documents filed Thursday.
April Lambros claimed she met Combs in early 1994 while she was a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and that he “love bombarded” her before his attempts to woo her “evolved into an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship. for sex,” according to the lawsuit filed in New York County Superior Court.
Lambros is the seventh person to accuse Combs of sexual assault in the past six months, after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a bombshell sex-trafficking lawsuit against him in November. While Lambros claims her last physical encounter with Combs was in the early 2000s, she says her relationship with Combs came back to haunt her in 2023 when she learned Combs had recorded a sex tape of her and shown it to several people, according to the lawsuit.
A representative for Combs did not immediately respond Rolling rockhis request for comment.
The two overlapped at Arista, where Lambros was a boarder. (Arista was Bad Boy Entertainment's parent company at the time.) As part of her filing, Lambro included a photo of herself and Combs hanging out at his Florida home and a handwritten Valentine's Day card, with the “Puffy” signature.
In the suit, Combs' polite manners allegedly disappeared one night when Lambros says she met him at a bar in downtown New York in 1995. Although Lambros said she didn't drink, she eventually “bowed to the pressure” because of her “ Combs' “delusional” and violent outbursts. After a few sips, Lambros says she started to feel uncomfortable. She continued to feel “the walls closing in on her,” according to the suit, when Combs walked her back to a hotel. Lambros alleges that Combs forced himself on her, ignoring her protests. “Ms. Lambros was being rushed by Mr. Combs and soon passed out,” the lawsuit alleges.
Combs allegedly assaulted Lambro a second time in a garage near his Manhattan apartment, forcing her to perform oral sex, according to the lawsuit. When Lambros tried to distance herself from Combs, he allegedly tried to win her back with “gifts and empty promises,” before switching to a “mobster persona” and “becoming angry, threatening and violent.” Lambros claims that because of his threatening and disruptive behavior, she felt “stuck” with Combs and had “no way out.”
“He felt that if she disobeyed him, it would take away her dreams of pursuing a career in his world,” the lawsuit states. “Sir. Combs would also threaten to blacklist her in the industry if she tried to mess with him in any way. Mrs. Lampros' dreams and everything she worked hard for was in the palm of his hand.”
In 1996, Lambros alleges that Combs sexually assaulted her a third time when he forced her and his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter to take ecstasy and allegedly asked Porter to have sex with Lambros, the suit alleges. Although Lambros claims she was “vocally opposed to this idea, Combs quickly reminded her that she had no control over the situation, as it could cause her to lose her job,” the lawsuit alleges. Combs masturbated while watching the women, according to the suit, before allegedly sexually assaulting Lambros.
Lambros says she ended her relationship with Combs in 1998, but ran into him at a Rockefeller Center event in the early 2000s, allegedly prompting Combs to beg to see her again. Eventually, Lambros says she allowed Combs into her apartment where he began kissing and touching her against her will, according to the suit. But Lambros was able to stop the meeting and demand Combs leave.
More than two decades later, in 2023, Lambros alleges that an unidentified man approached a man Lambros was dating and said he had seen a sex video of Lambros and Cobbs in 1997. Lambros “was told that Mr. Cobbs apparently recorded them having sex without her knowledge and showed it to multiple people,” the lawsuit alleges.
“As a result of defendant Combs' conduct,” the lawsuit adds, Lambros “suffered and continues to suffer harm, including physical injury, serious emotional distress, humiliation, distress and other consequential damages for which she is entitled to an award of monetary damages and other relief.” .
In the wake of Ventura's lawsuit, Lambros and four other women and one man accused Combs of sexual assault. Joy Dickerson-Neal alleged that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991. She claimed that Combs filmed the incident and showed the footage to others in an act described as “revenge porn”. Through a rep, Combs denied the allegation, saying “[this] The 32-year-old story is fabricated and not credible.”
Liza Gardner claimed she was 16 when Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her after an Uptown Records event in 1990. She also alleged that Combs later began “assaulting and choking her” until she nearly to be “stoned” because he was worried that he might reveal what happened. “These are fabricated allegations that falsely allege misconduct from more than 30 years ago and were filed at the last minute,” a Combs spokesperson said of Gardner's lawsuit. “This is nothing but a money grab.”
A Detroit woman claimed Combs, former Bad Boy frontman Harve Pierre and a third man raped her at Combs' recording studio in New York in 2003 when she was 17 years old. And in February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones sued Combs for sexual assault, harassment and failure to compensate him for his work on the Grammy Award. The album of love. Combs' representatives have denied the allegations in both cases. And this week, model Crystal McKinney became the sixth person to sue Combs in six months. She claimed that Combs drugged her and forced her to give him oral sex in his recording studio in New York in 2003.
Combs has denied any wrongdoing in either case. But he stepped down as chairman of media company Revolt TV last year as more than a dozen companies left his e-commerce platform. In January, spirits giant Diageo cut him off in a private settlement under which Combs will no longer co-own the DeLeón tequila brand or have ties to Cîroc vodka.
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