Three Men Accuse Diddy of Drugging and Rape in New Lawsuits

Sean “Diddy” Combs was hit with a new round of lawsuits on Thursday, in which three John Does claim in separate complaints that the embattled music mogul had drugged and raped them in incidents that allegedly took place between 2019 and 2022. The accusations echo the dozens of other civil lawsuits Combs is currently facing as well as the federal sex-trafficking charges for which he’s expected to stand trial next May.

Combs has denied all the allegations against him. “These complaints are full of lies,” his attorneys said in a statement. “We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him.”

The first John Doe met Combs at a Manhattan nightclub in 2019 and was invited to an after-party at a hotel suite, according to his lawsuit. There, Combs allegedly offered Doe a drink he now believes was laced. Doe claims that he lost consciousness and that when he came to, Combs was raping him while an unnamed man and woman sat on the bed videotaping the assault. Doe says he passed out again, and when he woke up the next morning, the man and woman were in the room but Combs was not. The man gave $2,500 to Doe “on behalf” of Combs, the complaint alleges, which Doe accepted before leaving the suite. “Out of fear and humiliation, Plaintiff never told anybody about the aforementioned incident, until now,” the lawsuit reads.

The second John Doe, who says he worked for Combs running errands between 2006 and 2018, says in his complaint that he met the rapper at a Manhattan hotel in February 2020 to discuss missing job payments. Doe claims that shortly after Combs gave him an alcoholic drink, he began feeling tired and the rapper suggested he take a nap on the couch. When he woke up, the lawsuit says, Combs was raping him. Doe says he tried to stop Combs, who allegedly responded, “I’m almost done.” The complaint further claims that Combs and members of his entourage attempted to intimidate Doe into staying silent after the assault. “After the rape, Defendant Sean Combs told Plaintiff that going to the police will make Plaintiff ‘look like an idiot’ and that because Combs is ‘Diddy,’ Plaintiff would never be able to substantiate his claims against Combs,” the complaint reads.

In the third complaint, another John Doe says that in the summer of 2020, an associate of Combs’s invited him to one of the mogul’s parties in the Hamptons, for which Doe flew from Florida to New York. Doe claims he began feeling ill after drinking alcohol at the party with Combs and others from Bad Boy Records. The complaint alleges Combs and some of his associates took turns raping Doe as he drifted in and out of consciousness for the rest of the night. “Plaintiff attempted to resist their sexual advances but was unable to do so,” the lawsuit says. “Plaintiff had not consented to this kind of sexual activity, or any, and had been incapable of consent while unconscious.”

The three men, represented by attorney Thomas Giuffra, filed their complaints in New York State Supreme Court. As of this writing, more than 30 civil lawsuits have been filed accusing Combs of a wide range of abusive behavior including rape, sexual harassment, nonconsensual pornography, and sex trafficking. “It was a usual thing. Come for a meeting, have a drink, you get woozy, you wake up to Sean Combs raping you, you get ushered out the door. I was struck by the similarity,” Giuffra told ABC News. “I was contacted by in excess of 60 people. I only chose to file these three so far because I vetted them out. They’re very consistent with the pattern that Sean Combs followed.”