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Dawn Richard of Danity Kane filed a lawsuit against Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, becoming the eighth person to accuse the rapper of sexual assault.
Richard also claims that she witnessed Diddy violently attack his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura on multiple occasions, and saw another one of Combs’ exes, Kim Porter, leaving a studio crying with bruises on her face.
In the lawsuit, filed in federal court on Tuesday in Manhattan, Richard states that she witnessed Sean Combs throw Cassie against a wall, choke her, drag her up a flight of stairs, punch her in the face, and fling a hot pan of eggs at her.
Dawn Richard claims in the lawsuit that when she tried to intervene, Diddy threatened her, saying things like “you want to die today” and “I end people.”
In July, a magazine editor claimed Combs once told her she would end up “dead in the trunk of a car” over some photographs taken for the publication.
Richard, who also sued former Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Harve Pierre, claims in her lawsuit that she observed young women who appeared “lethargic or passed out” at parties thrown by Diddy and that “Combs and his friends performed sexual acts on them” while they were in that vulnerable state.
Personally, she says Combs would walk into her dressing room and grope her buttocks and breasts and when she resisted he retaliated by deny her singing parts and turning off her microphone during performances.
He also, Richard’s lawsuit claims, made her rehearse 48 hours at a time without sleep and once locked her in a car with heavily tinted windows for two hours while she screamed for help, according to TMZ.
When she called her dad to come help her, he drove from Baltimore to New York only to be met by Diddy, who warned her dad, “Think about your daughter” and “think about your daughter’s career.”
The New York Times reports…
The suit is the latest against Mr. Combs to cite an amendment to a New York City law called the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Law as a means of reviving claims that fall outside of the statute of limitations. Mr. Combs’s lawyers have been mounting a legal challenge to the use of the amendment in court. The complaint also cites labor laws and a California sexual abuse law to seek liability for Mr. Combs causing “harmful and sexually offensive contact” to Ms. Richard.
On Monday, a judge ordered Diddy to a pay prison inmate $100 million in alleged assault lawsuit.
In March, Department of Homeland Security agents along with local law enforcement agencies performed raids on Sean Combs’ homes in Miami, Florida, and New York City.
So far, despite the raids and all of the lawsuits, Sean Combs has not been charged with any crimes.