A fourth woman has accused Sean 'Diddy' Combs of sexual assault, claiming that she was raped by the rapper and two other men at his studio in New York in 2003, when she was just seventeen.
The allegations come in a lawsuit filed with the courts in New York. Combs was sued last month by three women accusing him of sexual assault, including his former partner Cassie Ventura. That particular lawsuit was immediately settled, but the others continue to go through the motions.
In the new lawsuit, an unnamed woman says that she met a friend of Combs in Michigan in 2003, and he invited her to join him and the rapper in New York. She was then flown to New York by private jet where she met Combs at his studio. There she was given "copious amounts of drugs and alcohol" before Combs and two other men took turns raping her.
A legal rep for the plaintiff told the BBC: "As alleged in the complaint, defendants preyed on a vulnerable high school teenager as part of a sex trafficking scheme that involved plying her with drugs and alcohol and transporting her by private jet to New York City where she was gang raped by the three individual defendants at Mr Combs' studio. The depravity of these abhorrent acts has, not surprisingly, scarred our client for life".
The lawsuits filed against Combs last month were prompted by New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provided a one year window in which the alleged victims of sexual assault could file new legal proceedings, even if alleged incidents occurred sufficiently long ago that lawsuits would usually be barred by the statue of limitations.
Combs denies all of the allegations that have been made against him. He said in a statement yesterday: "Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy".
"Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday", he went on. "Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth".