Celebrity attorney Gloria Allred is defending her client Thalia Graves after bribery allegations surfaced against the “Diddy” accuser. Graves is accused of offering her ex-boyfriend $3 million to substantiate her lawsuit claims.
“It’s all too common for wealthy and powerful people and their supporters to seek to discredit, shame and humiliate accusers who have the courage to come forward,” Allred told TMZ. “The complaints speak for themselves. Our client looks forward to his court date.
Graves sued Dee Dee (real name Sean Combs) and his former bodyguard Joe Sherman in September. The lawsuit alleges the two men raped her in 2001.
“Plaintiff, then twenty-five years old, was dating an employee of Combs’s, and Combs used that relationship to lure Plaintiff into meeting him and Sherman alone,” Graves’ attorneys wrote. “Once they successfully quarantined, After arresting the plaintiff, Coombs and Sherman gave the plaintiff a drink, which may have contained drugs, which ultimately caused her to briefly lose consciousness. She woke up to find herself restrained. Combs brutally sexually abused and assaulted her anus and vagina. Sherman slammed the complainant onto a table, slapped her in the face, and inserted his penis into her mouth multiple times. Throughout the attack, neither man was intimidated by the complainant’s cries for help.
Graves said she learned that Dee Dee and Sherman recorded her rape in November 2023.
“Plaintiff could not believe that the defendant would record herself committing such a horrific crime and then proudly and widely disseminate that recording,” Graves’ lawsuit states. “She was distraught and fell into a deep depression. She once again considered ending her own life life.
Sherman denies raping Graves.
“This was a lie to me,” he told NBC New York. “I don’t know this lady.”
Didi was arrested in September on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation for prostitution. He remains behind bars.
