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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces new sexual assault allegation

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Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a university student in 1991 in a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Thursday, the second suit of its kind filed against the hip hop mogul in the past week.

The complaint against Combs, 54, was among a flurry of lawsuits filed this week against public figures under New York state’s Adult Survivors Act, ahead of the expiry of a special one-year window for such complaints. The law allows such lawsuits to be filed in court even if the statute of limitations have run out.

The lawsuit alleges Combs intentionally drugged and sexually assaulted Joi Dickerson-Neal, who was a Syracuse University student visiting New York City at the time of the alleged incident in January 1991.

Combs is also accused of videotaping the alleged crime and distributing the tape to others in the music industry.

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“The sexual assault, and public exposure of it, caused her to suffer overwhelming feelings of humiliation, embarrassment, violation, and constant apprehension about who all viewed it,” lawyers for Ms Dickerson-Neal wrote in the complaint.

Ms Dickerson-Neal is seeking unspecified compensatory damages for mental and emotional injury, distress, pain and suffering and injury to her reputation, according to the lawsuit.

A spokesperson for Combs said Ms Dickerson-Neal’s story is “made up and not credible,” and that the rapper never assaulted her.

“This is purely a money grab and nothing more,” the spokesperson said in an email.

The complaint against Combs comes a week after he settled a lawsuit by his former girlfriend, R&B vocalist Cassandra Ventura. Combs had strongly denied all the allegations.

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Combs, a three-time Grammy winning rapper and producer, was accused of more than a decade of abuse including allegations that he subjected her to brutal beatings, plied her with drugs, and forced her to have sex with sex workers while he masturbated and filmed them.

Ventura met Combs in 2005 when she was 19 and he was 37.

She was signed to his label, Bad Boy Records, after she began a relationship with him.

She claimed in the lawsuit that Combs began a pattern of control and abuse soon after, alleging he had oversight of her car, housing, clothes and even her medical records.

Combs and Ventura reached a settlement the day after the lawsuit was filed.

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