A safety guard who claimed he was drugged and sexually assaulted by Sean “Diddy” Combs at one of many music mogul’s White Events has spoken out for the primary time concerning the alleged encounter.
“Nothing may give me again the particular person I used to be earlier than that night,” the previous safety employee mentioned in a sit-down interview with CNN on Tuesday evening. The person, who filed his lawsuit as a John Doe in October, had his face hid and his voice altered to take care of his anonymity.
The person is the primary accuser to provide an on-camera interview about their alleged assaults. Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones opened as much as Rolling Stone earlier this yr concerning the drugging, groping and sexual harassment that he claimed to have skilled whereas working with Combs on the Grammy-nominated album The Love Album: Off the Grid.
The John Doe is being represented by attorneys Tony Buzbee and Andrew Van Arsdale, who made headlines after they introduced they have been representing greater than 120 women and men in claims towards Combs and his associates in October. As of December, they’ve filed 20 civil fits, together with a declare from a 13-year-old who accused Combs and Jay-Z of raping her throughout a VMAs afterparty in 2000. (Jay-Z has vehemently denied the accusation and has filed an extortion lawsuit towards Buzbee.)
In his CNN interview, the safety employee claimed for the primary time that an unnamed movie star was a witness to the alleged assault, saying they “noticed what occurred and located it amusing.”
When reached for remark, Combs’ representatives referred Rolling Stone to a press release they made on the time of the person’s filings, saying it was part of an try and “garner publicity.” “In courtroom, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs has by no means sexually assaulted anybody — grownup or minor, man or lady,” the assertion added.
The New Jersey-based former safety guard claimed he met Combs in the course of the Dangerous Boy govt’s annual White Get together bash in 2007. Employed by a personal safety agency, Doe alleged that Combs paid him particular consideration, providing him safety work for an additional occasion and handing him two drinks all through the occasion.
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Doe believes these drinks have been spiked with GHB and ecstasy, in accordance with his lawsuit. “I wasn’t in a position to stand,” Doe instructed CNN, including that it felt like he had upwards of a dozen drinks. “It was simply a tremendous stage of incapacitation that I had by no means skilled earlier than, and I felt powerless.”
Feeling “extraordinarily unwell” by the second drink, Doe claimed that he was leaning towards his truck for help when a seemingly involved Combs approached him and requested how he was doing. Nevertheless, the person’s lawsuit alleged, Combs all of a sudden “forcibly pushed” him into an open van, held him down and sexually assaulted him. Though the person claimed he cried for assist, Combs allegedly overpowered him and repeatedly tried to appease him by saying “you’ll be alright.”
Afterwards, the person claimed that he instructed his supervisor about what occurred, however the boss dismissed him. “After that, he didn’t discuss to me once more, he minimize me out of all the pieces,” Doe instructed CNN. “I used to be completely blacklisted after that. I needed to discover a totally different discipline.”
The person mentioned he suffers lasting trauma from the alleged assault, claiming he couldn’t carry himself to inform his then-wife concerning the encounter as a result of his disgrace. “The total gravity of it lives with me to at the present time,” Doe mentioned. “It impacts each single factor you do for the remainder of your life.”
CNN famous that it discovered inconsistencies with the person’s story — together with that his authentic criticism claimed that he had by no means been married. An amended criticism was filed on Tuesday evening, noting that whereas the person was married on the time, he “was too ashamed to inform his spouse after struggling by the assault.” The person’s authentic criticism additionally claimed the alleged assault came about in August 2006. Nevertheless, Combs’ White Get together was held in St. Tropez that yr, not in New York. The brand new criticism up to date the yr.
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Combs’ representatives identified the inconsistencies to Rolling Stone on Wednesday when requested for remark. “After Buzbee was uncovered this week for pressuring purchasers to carry bogus instances towards Mr. Combs, and after public information confirmed that — opposite to his allegations — there was no white get together within the Hamptons in 2006, Buzbee amended this criticism to stroll again the allegations and now declare a special day and wholly totally different yr,” his reps mentioned.