Sean Combs, his longtime business partner Harve Pierre and a third, unidentified man allegedly “gang-raped” a 17-year-old girl in Combs’ Manhattan recording studio in 2003 after the high school student was smuggled across state lines and given “copious amounts of drugs and alcohol.” had been taken care of, according to an explosive new lawsuit filed on Wednesday.
The new plaintiff, named Jane Doe – the fourth woman to accuse Combs of sexual assault in three weeks – claims the men took turns raping her in a bathroom at Daddy’s House Recording Studio when she was in high school and Combs was 34 years old.
Combs vehemently denied Doe’s allegations in a statement released shortly after the lawsuit was filed. “Enough is enough. Over the last few weeks, I have watched silently as people have tried to attack my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. I have had disgusting accusations made against me by people looking for a quick payday. Let me be clear: I have done none of the terrible things I am accused of. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth,” Combs said in the statement to Rolling Stone.
The new lawsuit alleges that Jane Doe was out with a friend at a Detroit-area lounge two decades ago when Pierre singled her out, complimented her on her looks and insisted that he was “friends” with Combs . Pierre allegedly told the teen that Combs would like to get to know her and called Combs on his phone so the music mogul could personally invite her on an impromptu trip to New York aboard a private jet.
The 14-page lawsuit alleges that the private jet eventually took the teenager to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, where a waiting SUV took her, Pierre and the third unidentified man to the studio where Combs was working with an artist finished. The file, obtained by Rolling Stone, contains several color photos allegedly taken that night at Daddy’s House Recording Studio, including one of the teenager sitting on Combs’ lap. The filing alleges the teen was plied with “copious amounts” of intoxicants while Combs, Pierre and the third man “incessantly” hit on her and groped her body.
“Mrs. Doe did not consent to sex with Mr. Combs, but he continued thrusting. At some point, Mr. Combs turned Ms. Doe around so that she was facing him. He told her that he couldn’t orgasm and asked her to squeeze his nipples as hard as possible to help him “come to orgasm.” He then turned her around again and proceeded to rape her,” the lawsuit states.
The lawsuit, which includes a “trigger warning” in bright red letters on the front page, alleges that the teenager kept losing consciousness when she looked in the mirror above the sink and realized the unknown man was returning from the plane ride Combs had replaced her and was now raping her from behind. According to the filing, Combs watched the assault from a chair outside the bathroom. Doe claims the unknown man ignored her pleas to stop but eventually moved out of the way so Pierre could take his turn. She claims Pierre first forced her to engage in “non-consensual vaginal sex” and then “forcibly forced her to give him oral sex.”
“Ms. Doe recalls that Mr. Pierre was sweating and that she had difficulty breathing,” the lawsuit states. “When Mr. Pierre was finished, he left Ms. Doe alone in the bathroom. Ms. Doe fell into the fetal position and lay on the floor. Her vagina hurt.”
Once the teenager recovered enough to walk with assistance, she was taken to the airport and flown back to Michigan, according to the lawsuit, which also names Daddy’s House Recordings and Bad Boy Entertainment as defendants. She has very limited memory of the return flight and only knows that she was sitting in her car sometime early in the morning,” it says.
The lawsuit further alleges that Combs and his associates spent a lot of time in Detroit and that Combs had many connections in Michigan – most notably with the Black Mafia Family, “a drug trafficking and money laundering organization that was rumored to be the nucleus of Bad Boy.” . (Attempts to reach Pierre were not immediately successful Wednesday.)
Attorney Douglas H. Wigdor filed the new lawsuit on behalf of the teen after previously representing R&B singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura in her landmark Nov. 16 lawsuit against Combs, accusing him of serial sexual assault and accused of drug trafficking. Cassie claimed that Combs raped her, forced her to engage in non-consensual, drug-fueled sex with other men while he watched, and “often punched, kicked and stomped” her.
A day later, the two announced a settlement. Combs’ attorney said the pact was not an admission of guilt. “Just to be clear, the decision to settle a lawsuit, especially in 2023, is in no way an admission of wrongdoing,” Combs’ attorney Ben Brafman said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “Mr. Combs’ decision to settle the dispute in no way undermines his blanket denial of the allegations. He is pleased that they have agreed to a settlement and wishes Ms. Ventura the best.”
Wigdor began the new Jane Doe’s latest lawsuit by citing Cassie’s case. He claimed that Ventura’s allegations were quickly confirmed by others and acted as a catalyst for other accusers to speak out in solidarity. He wrote that it was “triggering” for Doe to read Cassie’s claims of being forced to have sex with other men against her will, but that she now understands “that she, too, was a victim of sex trafficking and that Mr Combs forcing women to engage in non-consensual sex was not an isolated incident or unique to Ms. Ventura.”
In a statement to Rolling Stone, Wigdor alleges that Combs, Pierre and the third unidentified defendant “exploited a vulnerable high school teenager as part of a sex trafficking scheme that included supplying her with alcohol and taking her to New York City on a private jet.” bring her to where she was gang raped.” He says that “the heinousness of these heinous acts scarred Doe for her entire life.” The lawsuit alleges that Doe “suffered financial damages, physical injuries, pain and suffering, and severe psychological and emotional distress entitling her to compensatory and punitive damages.”
Pierre, who met Combs at Howard University before working for him at Bad Boy Records, was the subject of another lawsuit filed Nov. 21 under the Adult Survivors Act. An unidentified assistant alleged that Pierre groomed, molested and sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions in 2016 and 2017. (Pierre did not respond to a request for comment on the lawsuit.)
The new Jane Doe lawsuit, filed Wednesday, was filed under a New York measure called the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act. The measure only applies to gender-based violence claims within the city’s five boroughs. It expires on March 1, 2025.
The three previous lawsuits against Combs were filed under the state’s Adult Survivor’s Act, which expired last month. Afte