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On Tuesday, a person who claims Sean “Diddy” Combs drugged and sodomized him in 2007 sat down for an in-person interview with CNN, making him the primary of the embattled producer’s alleged victims to take action. John Doe — whose title, face, and voice have been hid — instructed CNN he was blacklisted from his safety job after the alleged assault, which he says an unnamed movie star witnessed and located “amusing.”
According to Doe’s civil grievance, which was filed in October and obtained by CNN, he was working for a non-public safety agency in 2007 when he was employed to work at a Diddy occasion. At the occasion — which, in keeping with CNN, was held at Combs’s East Hampton property — Doe says Combs gave him two alcoholic drinks he believes contained GHB and ecstasy. “It was simply an incredible degree of incapacitation that I had by no means skilled earlier than,” Doe instructed CNN. He says Combs expressed what Doe “initially interpreted as concern” earlier than pushing him into an empty car, holding him down, and sodomizing him. “I used to be screaming; I used to be telling him to cease,” Doe mentioned. “It was extremely painful, and he was appearing prefer it was nothing, and he appeared to be disconnected from it …Nothing might give me again the particular person I used to be earlier than that night.”
Doe says he struggled to depart the occasion afterward due to the ache he skilled and the medicine in his system. He says he reported the alleged assault to his supervisor. “He simply dismissed it and mentioned, ‘I’ll discuss to him,’” Doe recalled. But, he mentioned, his supervisor by no means spoke to him once more. “I used to be completely blacklisted after that,” mentioned Doe, who’s searching for unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. He instructed CNN the alleged assault contributed to the tip of his marriage and left him with emotional and psychological well being points.
Doe’s go well with is considered one of no less than 20 civil fits towards Diddy from accusers represented by Houston-based personal-injury lawyer Tony Buzbee. CNN famous a number of inconsistencies between Doe’s grievance and Tuesday’s interview. According to CNN, the unique go well with states that Doe had by no means been married and that the alleged assault happened in 2006, when Diddy’s White Party happened in St. Tropez, not the Hamptons. Following the interview, Doe’s attorneys filed an amended grievance with these particulars up to date.
Through his authorized representatives, Combs has denied the allegations in Doe’s civil go well with. After Doe’s CNN interview, the mogul’s attorneys dug into Buzbee and the inconsistencies within the account. “After Buzbee was uncovered this week for pressuring shoppers to convey bogus instances towards Mr. Combs,” Combs’s attorneys wrote in an announcement to CNN, apparently referencing an amended civil lawsuit towards Combs and Jay-Z, “and after public data confirmed that — opposite to his allegations — there was no white occasion within the Hamptons in 2006, Buzbee amended this grievance to stroll again the allegations and now declare a unique day and wholly totally different 12 months.”
Combs is at present in federal custody on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on sex-trafficking and racketeering expenses. His trial is about for May.
