A seventh sexual assault has been filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs. This one comes from a woman who was a college student at the time and claims that Diddy sexually assaulted her four times after they met in the mid-'90s, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday, Rolling Stone reports.
In the lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of New York County, April Lampros says she met the hip-hop mogul in early 1994 when she was attending New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. In the suit, Lampros claimed that Diddy "love-bombed her" and that evolved "into an aggressive, coercive, and abusive relationship based on sex."
Although Lampros says that her last physical contact with Diddy occurred in the early 2000s, the trauma reemerged last year when Diddy showed a sex tape of her to multiple people, the lawsuit claims, per the outlet.
Lampros worked as an intern for Arista Records, the parent company of Diddy's Bad Boy Entertainment. The lawsuit includes a photo of her with Combs at his home in Florida, as well as a Valentine's card that is signed "Puffy," a nickname that Combs once used.
The lawsuit documents a 1995 encounter at a downtown New York bar between Diddy and Lampros in which the non-drinker "succumbed to pressure" and drank alcohol due to Diddy's "delusional and violent outbursts." Lampros claimed she began to feel as if the "walls were closing in on her" after a few sips, according to the suit.
The lawsuit claims that Diddy took her back to a hotel where he forced her to have sex, despite her protests. "Ms. Lampros was being raped by Mr. Combs, and soon passed out," the suit says.
A second sexual assault allegedly occurred in a parking garage near Diddy's Manhattan apartment when he forced her to perform oral sex on him.
Although Lampros attempted to break away from Diddy, the suit claims he initially tried to woo her back with "gifts and empty promises," and then turned to a "mobster persona" and "became angry, threatening, and forceful." As a result of such behavior, Lampros said she felt "stuck" with Diddy with no escape route, Rolling Stone reports.
"She felt that if she disobeyed him, he would take away her dreams of pursuing a career in his world," the suit claims. "Mr. Combs would also threaten to blacklist her in the industry if she tried to mess with him in any way. Ms. Lampros' dreams and everything she's been working hard for were in the palm of his hands."
The lawsuit also details a third sexual assault that occurred in 1996 with Diddy's ex-girlfriend Kim Porter present. Diddy allegedly demanded that the two women take ecstasy and have sex. Although Lampros "vocally opposed this idea, Combs quickly reminded her that she had no control over the situation and he could make her lose her job," according to the lawsuit. Diddy allegedly masturbated while watching Lampros and Porter and then sexually assaulted Lampros, the lawsuit alleges.
Although Lampros finally ended her relationship with Diddy in 1998, she ran into him at an event at Rockefeller Center in the early 2000s. Diddy begged her to resume their relationship and she let him come to her apartment but told him to leave after he began to kiss and touch her against her will.
In 2023, Lampros learned that Combs had made a sex tape of the two of them in 1997 and "was told that Mr. Combs apparently recorded them having sex without her knowing and showed it to multiple people," the lawsuit alleges, per the report.
The lawsuit concludes that "as a result of Defendant Combs' conduct, Lampros "has suffered and continues to suffer harm, including physical injury, severe emotional distress, humiliation, anxiety, and other consequential damages for which she is entitled to an award of monetary damages and other relief."
Although Diddy settled his suit with ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura shortly after it was filed in November, four other women and a man have filed lawsuits against Diddy claiming sexual abuse.
Diddy has dismissed all the allegations, but recently issued a video apology after CNN released a video of him physically abusing Cassie. After one of the suits was filed, Diddy's spokesperson said, "These are fabricated claims falsely alleging misconduct from over 30 years ago and filed at the last minute. This is nothing but a money grab."
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