Another woman has have come forward to accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault, alleging the hip-hop mogul sexually assaulted her four times between 1995 and the early 2000s, according to court documents filed Thursday.
April Lampros claimed that she met Combs in early 1994 while she was a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and that he “love bombed” her before his attempts to woo her ” “does not manifest itself as an aggressive, coercive and abusive relationship based on sex,” according to the lawsuit filed in New York County Supreme Court.
Lampros is the seventh person to accuse Combs of sexual assault in the past six months after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed an explosive sex trafficking complaint against him in November. While Lampros claims her last physical encounter with Combs was in the early 2000s, she claims her relationship with Combs came back to haunt her in 2023 when she learned Combs allegedly recorded a sex tape of her and allegedly shown to several people, according to the lawsuit.
A representative for Combs did not immediately respond to rolling stonerequest for comment.
The two overlapped at Arista, the parent company of Bad Boy Entertainment at the time, where Lampros was an intern. As part of her filing, Lampros included a photo of herself with Combs, hanging out at his Florida home, and a handwritten Valentine’s Day card, signed “Puffy.”
In the lawsuit, Combs’ courtly manner allegedly disappeared one night when Lampros said she met him at a downtown New York bar in 1995. Although Lampros said she didn’t drink, she ultimately “succumbed to pressure” because of Combs’ comments. delirious and violent explosions. After a few sips, Lampros says she started to feel uncomfortable. She continued to feel like “the walls were closing in on her,” according to the suit, when Combs walked her to a hotel. Lampros claims Combs forced himself on her, ignoring her protests. “MS. Lampros was raped by Mr. Combs and she quickly passed out,” the lawsuit claims.
Combs allegedly assaulted Lampros a second time in a parking lot near her Manhattan apartment, physically forcing her to have oral sex, according to the lawsuit. When Lampros tried to distance himself from Combs, he allegedly tried to win her back with “gifts and empty promises,” before transforming into a “gangster persona” and “becoming angry, threatening and forceful.” Lampros claims that because of his threatening and harassing behavior, she felt “stuck” with Combs and had “no way out.”
“She believed that if she disobeyed him, he would take away her dream of pursuing a career in his world,” the lawsuit claims. “Mr. Combs would also threaten to blacklist her from the industry if she tried to bother him in any way. Ms. Lampros’ dreams and everything she worked hard for were in his hands.
In 1996, Lampros claims Combs sexually assaulted her a third time when he forced her and former girlfriend Kim Porter to take ecstasy and allegedly asked Porter to have sex with Lampros, according to the suit. Although Lampros claims she “vocally opposed the idea, Combs quickly reminded her that she had no control over the situation because he could cause her to lose her job,” the suit claims. Combs masturbated while he looked at the women, according to the suit, before sexually assaulting Lampros.
Lampros says she ended her relationship with Combs in 1998, but ran into him at an event at Rockefeller Center in the early 2000s, allegedly prompting Combs to beg him to see her again. Eventually, Lampros said she allowed Combs to come to her apartment where he began kissing and touching her against her will, according to the suit. But Lampros was able to stop the meeting and demand Combs’ departure.
More than two decades later, in 2023, Lampros claims an unidentified man approached a man Lampros was dating and said he had seen a sex video of Lampros and Combs in 1997. Lampros ” learned that Mr. Combs had apparently recorded them having sex without his knowledge. and showed it to several people,” the lawsuit claims.
“As a result of Defendant Combs’ conduct,” the lawsuit adds, Lampros “has suffered and continues to suffer harm, including physical injury, severe emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety and other consequential damages for which it is entitled to compensation for monetary damages and other reparations.
Following Ventura’s trial, Lampros and four other women and a man accused Combs of sexual abuse. Joi Dickerson-Neal claimed that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in 1991. She claimed that Combs filmed the incident and showed the video to others in an act described as “revenge porn.” Through a representative, Combs denied the allegation, saying “(this) 32-year-old story is made up and not credible.”
Liza Gardner claimed that she was 16 years old when Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her following an Uptown Records event in 1990. She further claimed that Combs then began “assaulting and choking” her until she almost “passed out” because he feared she would reveal what had happened. “These are fabricated allegations, falsely alleging misconduct dating back more than 30 years, and filed at the last minute,” a spokesperson for Combs said of Gardner’s lawsuit. “It’s nothing more than a money grab.”
A Detroit woman claimed Combs, former Bad Boy president Harve Pierre and a third man gang-raped her at Combs’ New York recording studio in 2003, when she was 17 . And in February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones sued Combs for sexual assault, harassment and failure to compensate him for his work on the Grammy-nominated film. The love album. Representatives for Combs have denied the allegations in both cases. And this week, model Crystal McKinney became the sixth person to sue Combs in the span of six months. She claimed Combs drugged her and forced her to perform oral sex on him in his New York recording studio in 2003.
Combs has denied any wrongdoing in each case. Yet he resigned as chairman of his media company Revolt TV last year as more than a dozen companies fled his e-commerce platform. In January, liquor giant Diageo released him in a private deal under which Combs will no longer co-own the DeLeón tequila brand and have no ties to Cîroc vodka.