Hip hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former bodyguard drugged, bound and violently raped a woman in 2001 — in a vicious attack he filmed and showed to friends, a bombshell new lawsuit claims.
Thalia Graves sobbed and said she is “happy” the hip-hop mogul is behind bars during a press conference Tuesday announcing the legal action.
“It’s a pain that goes to the very core of who you are, leaving emotional scars that may never fully heal,” Graves said through tears. “Some of the hardest parts of this pain are the shame and the guilt I have experienced that plays a negative part in my day-to-day ability to be able to function properly.”
In court papers filed Tuesday, Graves accused Combs and ex-security head Joseph Sherman of “mercilessly raping” her inside the Bad Boy Records studio in Manhattan.
The two men lured Graves, who was 25 at the time and dating one of Combs’ employees, into the studio where they gave her a drink “likely laced with a drug” that caused her to briefly lose consciousness, the lawsuit alleges.
Graves “awoke to find herself bound and restrained” before the duo “proceeded to brutally sexually abuse and violate” her, the court papers claim.
During the horrific incident, Sherman “forcefully slammed [Graves] onto a table, slapped her,” and roughly forced her to perform a sex act, the filing claims.
“Both men were undeterred by [Graves’] cries for help throughout the attack,” the suit charges.
Graves “never recovered” and her emotional wounds were reopened on Nov. 27, 2023, when she discovered her attackers made a video that they showed “to multiple men, seeking to publicly degrade and humiliate both [Graves] and her boyfriend,” the court documents claim.
She was so “distraught” over the discovery that she “sunk into a deep depression” and “considered ending her life” — not for the first time, the filing alleges.
Graves, who now lives in Texas, never reported the depraved attack to police out of fear that Combs would use his power as a hip-hop industry kingmaker to “ruin her life,” says the suit, filed in Manhattan federal court.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/24/us-news/sean-diddy-combs-sued-by-woman-claiming-he-raped-her-recorded-sexual-abuse/