Another woman, April Lampros, has filed a lawsuit against American music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her.
Lampros, a fashion student in New York City over 20 years ago, is the eighth woman to file such allegations against Diddy, who has denied previous accusations.
In her lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of New York County, April Lampros claimed that Diddy offered to be her mentor in the fashion industry when she first met the rapper in 1995.
The 51-year-old claims that the rapper became aggressive and coercive, alleging that he assaulted her four times including when he forced her to take ecstas and have sex with his late girlfriend, Kim Porter while he watched and masturbated.
Lampros said she first met with Diddy at a SoHo Bar in 1995, and he allegedly got her drunk on alcohol before taking her to his room at the Millennium Hotel.
She described the night as if “the walls were closing in on her” as the music mogul, 54, allegedly began to force himself on her.
The lawsuit says; “After a night out in a Soho bar, where Lampros alleges Combs gave her too much alcohol, he took her back to his room at the Millennium Hotel, where she says she felt “the walls were closing in on her” as he began to force himself on her.”
The plaintiff claimed she was conscious when Diddy allegedly began raping her but she was unable to defend herself, and woke up the following day “nude, sore, and confused.”
“She woke up the next morning “nude, sore and confused.” For months she didn’t hear from Combs until he reached out again and began inviting her to VIP music industry events.
“The ‘naive’ college student took Mr Combs at his word and believed that the first rape was a possible mulligan and decided to give him a second chance,” Lampros’ attorneys wrote.
She then recalled heading to dinner with the rapper when he forced her to perform oral sex in the parking garage.
The filing says they were spotted by a garage attendant, but Diddy reportedly didn’t care.
After that incident, Lampros said she avoided Diddy, which led him to become angry and develop a “mobster persona,” and threatened to blacklist her from the industry.
In 1996, Lampros said she was “ordered” to Diddy’s apartment, where she was introduced to his now ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter who died in 2018 of pneumonia.
The plaintiff alleged that she was at Diddy’s apartment in Manhattan with Porter after they had returned from a nightclub. Combs told both women to open their mouths and forced ecstasy down their throats, the suit says.
Lampros claimed she was raped once again by Diddy who told her that she had no control when she tried to refuse his advances, the suit claims.
She claimed that after she cut ties with Diddy in 1998, she discovered he had secretly recorded their encounters and showed the recordings to others.
The plaintiff also alleged that Porter and Diddy got her fired from a restaurant where she was working after Porter saw her working there.
According to the suit, Porter called Lampros’ manager and falsely accused her of trying to poison Porter in a move that Lampros believes was retaliation.
Lampros alleged that Porter told the restaurant owner that she should be fired, or she would close the restaurant together with Diddy. Later that day, she was fired.
About two years later, Lampros said, Diddy told her he missed her when they ran into each other at an event. Diddy called Lampros for days after she refused to leave with him, asking whether she would see him at his apartment, she said in her suit.
Lampros “reluctantly” agreed for Diddy to come to her apartment to hear what he had to say, says the suit, which says he arrived with a security guard who was sitting in the stairwell.
During that interaction, Diddy grabbed her and forced himself on her, kissing and touching her without her consent, it alleges. She fought him off enough to reach for her door and ask him to leave, it says.
She is suing Diddy for battery, sexual assault, emotional distress, and gender-motivated violence.
Lampros said in a statement Thursday, “I’m confident that justice will prevail and the veil will be removed so no other woman will have to endure what I did.”
Her attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, filed the suit naming Diddy, Bad Boy Records, Arista Records, and Sony Music Entertainment as respondents.
Diddy has been slapped with seven different lawsuits accusing him of rape, sexual misconduct and other crimes.
This lawsuit comes just two days after another woman, former model Crystal McKinney, accused Diddy of drugging and sexually assaulting her.