Diddy Accuser Details Alleged Assault at 2007 White Party
On Tuesday, a man who claims Sean “Diddy” Combs drugged and sodomized him in 2007 sat down for an in-person interview with CNN, making him the first of the embattled producer’s alleged victims to do so. John Doe — whose name, face, and voice were concealed — told CNN he was blacklisted from his security job after the alleged assault, which he says an unnamed celebrity witnessed and found “amusing.”
According to Doe’s civil complaint, which was filed in October and obtained by CNN, he was working for a private security firm in 2007 when he was hired to work at a Diddy party. At the event — which, according to CNN, was held at Combs’s East Hampton estate — Doe says Combs gave him two alcoholic beverages he believes contained GHB and ecstasy. “It was just an amazing level of incapacitation that I had never experienced before,” Doe told CNN. He says Combs expressed what Doe “initially interpreted as concern” before pushing him into an empty vehicle, holding him down, and sodomizing him. “I was screaming; I was telling him to stop,” Doe said. “It was incredibly painful, and he was acting like it was nothing, and he seemed to be disconnected from it …Nothing could give me back the person I was before that evening.”
Doe says he struggled to leave the party afterward because of the pain he experienced and the drugs in his system. He says he reported the alleged assault to his supervisor. “He just dismissed it and said, ‘I’ll talk to him,’” Doe recalled. But, he said, his supervisor never spoke to him again. “I was totally blacklisted after that,” said Doe, who is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages. He told CNN the alleged assault contributed to the end of his marriage and left him with emotional and mental health issues.
Doe’s suit is one of at least 20 civil suits against Diddy from accusers represented by Houston-based personal-injury lawyer Tony Buzbee. CNN noted several inconsistencies between Doe’s complaint and Tuesday’s interview. According to CNN, the original suit states that Doe had never been married and that the alleged assault took place in 2006, when Diddy’s White Party took place in St. Tropez, not the Hamptons. Following the interview, Doe’s attorneys filed an amended complaint with those details updated.
Through his legal representatives, Combs has denied the allegations in Doe’s civil suit. After Doe’s CNN interview, the mogul’s attorneys dug into Buzbee and the inconsistencies in the account. “After Buzbee was exposed this week for pressuring clients to bring bogus cases against Mr. Combs,” Combs’s attorneys wrote in a statement to CNN, apparently referencing an amended civil lawsuit against Combs and Jay-Z, “and after public records showed that — contrary to his allegations — there was no white party in the Hamptons in 2006, Buzbee amended this complaint to walk back the allegations and now claim a different day and wholly different year.”
Combs is currently in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges. His trial is set for May.
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