Three men have filed separate lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Thursday, accusing the media mogul of raping them.
According to court documents obtained by HuffPost, each of the men claimed that Combs drugged them and then sodomized them between the years of 2019 and 2022. All three accusers, who were each identified as “John Doe,” are seeking a trial by jury and unspecified damages.
One Doe’s lawsuit claims that he unknowingly consumed a drugged drink before losing consciousness at a party at Combs’ house in East Hampton around the summer of 2020. Combs and his associates then “took turns anally raping” him, the lawsuit claims. Doe attempted to resist but was unable to do so.
In another suit, a Doe claims that he met Combs through a mutual friend at the Marquee New York nightclub in 2019. He was invited to join Combs and about 10 others at a suite in the Park Hyatt hotel for an afterparty, at which point he drank a drink that had been spiked. Doe claims that he lost consciousness and woke to Combs sodomizing him while a man and a woman recorded. The following morning, when the plaintiff woke again, Combs was gone but the man and woman remained. The man then gave the plaintiff $2,500 on Combs’ behalf.
The third Doe had worked for Combs since 2006, according to the suit. Around February 2020, he met with Combs at the InterContinental Times Square hotel to discuss missing payments. Doe claimed that Combs made him a spiked drink that put him to sleep. When Doe awoke, Combs was sodomizing him. Doe tried to resist, but Combs told him to “stop” because he was “almost done,” the lawsuit said.
Doe recounted the experience in an exclusive interview with NBC News published Thursday: “The phrase that just rattles in my brain all the time is, ‘I’m almost done.’”
The three suits were filed by attorney Thomas Giuffra, who told ABC News that more than 60 people have contacted him accusing Combs of assault. He added that he filed these three lawsuits in particular because he “was struck by the similarity.”
Guiffra told HuffPost that Combs got away with abusing the men because he was “a rich, powerful public figure.”
“After the assaults, he ensured their silence by threatening them and relying on their fear of his power,” Guiffra said. “This is a long overdue opportunity for the victims to take the power back after carrying the burden of the assaults in silence for several years. While a lawsuit will not undo the wrongs done to them, it enables the survivors regain the power and dignity that was stripped from them by Sean Combs.”
Through his laywers, Combs has denied the claims in the three lawsuits.
“These complaints are full of lies. We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him,” Combs’ attorneys told HuffPost.
The lawsuits are the latest in an ongoing series of civil cases — including a suit filed by his ex, singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, in November 2023, which Combs immediately settled — accusing the rap mogul of sexual assault and other crimes. Combs has vehemently denied those allegations.
In September, Combs was also indicted on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a federal investigation following raids on his homes. Since September, Combs has been behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Need help? Visit RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Online Hotline or the National Sexual Violence Resource Center’s website.