Diddy is facing yet another lawsuit — this time for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting a young model during Men’s Fashion Week more than two decades ago.
The suit, first picked up by TMZ, is from a woman named Crystal McKinney. In addition to Diddy, it names Bad Boy Records, Sean John Clothing, and Universal Music as defendants.
According to the complaint, viewed by HipHopDX, McKinney was a model who began working at 17, in 1998.
She claims that, back in 2003, she met Diddy at a fashion event, where he “made a very public display of coming on to Plaintiff in a sexually suggestive manner.”
Following the dinner, they went back to his studio.
There, she took a hit of a joint Diddy and friends were sharing that she claims was “very powerful,” saying that it was laced.
She claims one of Diddy’s friends told her: “You’ve never had weed like this before.”
The complaint continues, with McKinney alleging that Diddy “physically led” her to a bathroom.
Then, she claims, Diddy forced her to “perform oral sex on him.”
After that, she continues, she passed out and awoke in a cab.
“As her consciousness returned, Plaintiff realized that she had been sexually assaulted by Combs,” the complaint reads.
Following the alleged assault, McKinney says Diddy “blackballed” her from modeling. She attempted suicide the following year.
McKinney claims that, following the news of the flood of similar suits against Diddy, she “knew she had a moral obligation to speak up.”
HipHopDX has reached out to Diddy’s representatives for comment, but have not heard back as of this writing.
This is not the only alleged assault from 2003 that Diddy is currently facing down in court. Late last year, a different woman sued him over a separate alleged assault from that same time frame.
In that suit, originally filed in late 2023, the woman claims that Diddy, then-Bad Boy president Harve Pierre, and a third man raped her after she was plied with drugs and alcohol. The alleged incident, she says, took place in 2003 when she was still in high school.
The embattled Bad Boy mogul denies the charges.
He addressed the matter in a recent legal filing, which read in part: “Mr. Combs and his companies categorically deny Plaintiff’s decades-old tale against them, which has already caused incalculable damage to the reputations and business standing of the Combs Defendants, even before any evidence has been presented.
“Plaintiff cannot allege what day or time of year the alleged incident occurred, yet purports to miraculously recall the most prurient details with specificity.
“This case should be dismissed now, with prejudice, to protect the Combs Defendants from further reputational injury and before more party and judicial resources are squandered.”
