Diddy faces a new lawsuit in New York from a woman who claims a fake ride home turned into a rape when she was 16.
Diddy cases are now being detected on both coasts, and one recent case in New York looks like it will keep you up at night.
A woman who filed suit as Jane Doe is suing Sean Combs in Manhattan under the city’s Gender Motivated Violence Protection Act, alleging that he drugged and raped her as a 16-year-old girl walking home in lower Manhattan in the summer of 2000.
The lawsuit names Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises as co-defendants, along with two unnamed John Does who were allegedly Diddy’s employees that night.
The woman said that while she was walking home, Didi was in an SUV with two men and began talking to her and pushing the car, which she did not ask for.
She said it only once and eventually went in, hoping to be dropped off at her building around the corner. Instead, drivers kept passing her stops and Didi handed her a drink to calm down, after which she said she felt groggy and overwhelmed.
He then took her to a separate location where he raped her before she was left alone in the lobby of the building, court documents say.
Attorney Michael F. Rubin asked to have her proceed as Jane Doe, arguing the case involved child sexual abuse and legitimate concerns about public exposure. He wrote that Doe did not hide it from Dee Dee and that her identity could be shared with his defense during the discovery process.
According to the complaint, the DOE filed a similar case in 2025 but it was later dismissed without prejudice, which is why this refiling falls within the GVM Act’s extended window (ending July 29, 2027).
The New York lawsuit comes days after a male former child actor filed a separate lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that Puff Diddy sexually assaulted him at a 2007 Hollywood Hills social event when he was a minor.
In that lawsuit, the plaintiff alleged that Diddy lured him to a back room, gave him alcohol and beat him under the guise of career advice. Diddy’s rep, Juda Engelmayer, denied the claims to TMZ, calling them “false and ridiculous” and accusing the accuser of trying to get on the “money gravy train.”
Bad Boy Records and Combs Enterprises are both accused of negligent retention and negligent supervision in the Jane Doe lawsuit, which claims the companies had “actual and/or constructive notice” of prior sexual abuse allegations against Diddy and kept him in place regardless.
This is an important corporate liability angle, and the costs to defendants could far exceed any damages sought by the Department of Energy.
AllHipHop has been following Diddy’s increasing civil exposure in prison, where he is serving a 50-month federal sentence after being convicted in 2025 of two prostitution-related transportation charges.
The DOE is seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees and a jury trial.
