Sean "Diddy" Combs has once again been sued. The Bad Boy mogul has now been accused of sex trafficking and sexual assault by Adria English, a former adult film star who claims Diddy hired her to work as a "go-go dancer" at a party he threw in 2004. He has denied the claims.
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Diddy allegedly went on to hire her for more parties, where English alleges that her drinks were laced with narcotics and she was coerced into having sex with guests.
One of those guests was allegedly celebrity jeweller Jacob "the Jeweller" Arabo, with whom English claims she had "forced sexual intercourse" for a $1,000 USD pay bump. He's also named in the lawsuit — as well as several of Diddy's enterprises, two media companies and Tamiko Thomas, a woman she claims facilitated the sex trafficking and is described in the document as "the Ghislaine Maxwell to Diddy's Jeffrey Epstein."
The filing sees English claim that Diddy "groomed" her into sex trafficking when she attended more and more of his infamous white parties — particularly when he learned of her background in adult film, she alleges. The plaintiff says she initially met the mogul through her boyfriend, who had auditioned to model for Diddy's Sean John fashion label.
To get the job, English alleges that Diddy demanded that her boyfriend and another model perform oral sex on him. When her boyfriend refused, the mogul threatened to blackball the couple — until English's partner was offered another chance at the modelling gig if he convinced her to work as a go-go dancer at one of Diddy's parties in the Hamptons.
The subsequent alleged sex trafficking and sexual assaults resulted in emotional trauma, including intimacy issues and painful memories, for English. She's seeking unspecified damages.
"No matter how many lawsuits are filed it won't change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone," Diddy's attorney, Jonathan Davis, said in a statement to TMZ. "We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason and without any proof. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail against these and other baseless claims in court."
This is the seventh high-profile sexual assault lawsuit Diddy has faced in around eight months; the sixth saw him accused of forcing former model Crystal McKinney to perform oral sex on him in 2003 back in May. That same month, a video leaked of the mogul assaulting his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, who had first came forward with her rape, sex trafficking and physical abuse accusations last November, which were then settled out of court.
