Danity Kane's Dawn Richard Accuses Diddy of Sexual Assault

Cassie Ventura Breaks Her Silence connected Diddy Assault Video

Another accuser has sued Sean "Diddy" Combs for alleged intersexual battle and different abuse—this clip a erstwhile subordinate of Danity Kane.

Singer Dawn Richard alleges successful her lawsuit, filed Sept. 10 and obtained by E! News, that the rap mogul subjected her to "years of inhumane moving conditions which included groping, assault, and mendacious imprisonment." E! News has reached retired to Combs' lawyer for remark and has not heard back.

The 41-year-old began moving with the rap mogul successful 2004 erstwhile she competed connected MTV world amusement Making the Band for a spot successful his caller miss group, aboriginal named Danity Kane, and signed with his grounds label. In 2009, Richard became a subordinate of Combs' trio Diddy – Dirty Money.

The "Ride for You" vocalist lists respective alleged incidents of intersexual battle and different misconduct from the rapper, 54, successful the lawsuit. "Mr. Combs often held meetings with Ms. Richard wearing lone his underwear," it states, "despite Ms. Richard’s protests and repeated requests for him to enactment connected clothing."

The vocalist besides alleges successful her filing that portion she was moving with Diddy – Dirty Money, Combs repeatedly ordered her to portion down to her underwear, made demeaning remarks astir her assemblage and intruded into her changing country unannounced portion she was undressed and touched her without support "under the guise of showing the stylist what to do."

Richard besides alleges that successful 2010, Combs offered to wage for her to acquisition a bosom augmentation arsenic a Christmas acquisition and past touched her thorax without her permission.

Richard alleges she besides suffered intersexual harassment, sex favoritism and a hostile enactment situation by being exposed to "sex trafficking and enactment acts." She stated successful her suit that often portion they were signaling successful the studio, Combs would clasp "parties" and that she observed him and his colleagues "kissing, groping, and inappropriately touching" young women.

Richard's mendacious imprisonment assertion stems from an alleged 2010 incident. She said Combs' bodyguard locked her wrong a Bentley with nary interior doorway handles for much than 2 hours aft she and the rapper got into a confrontation, during which she says helium swung his fist toward her face.

Richard said she phoned her begetter for assistance and that aft helium arrived hours later, Combs' workfellow ordered the bodyguard to merchandise her and her dada confronted the Bad Boy Records founder.

"Once Ms. Richard’s begetter expressed that helium intended to interaction police," the suit says, "Mr. Combs warned him to 'think astir your family' and 'think astir your daughter’s career.'"

In her filing, Richard is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, arsenic good arsenic different costs for the station traumatic stress, anxiousness and different affectional suffering and fiscal losses she suffered arsenic a effect of Combs' alleged behavior.

Richard is 1 of respective radical who person sued Combs for intersexual battle and different misconduct successful little than a year. He has denied each the allegations from anterior lawsuits.

In November 2023, his ex-girlfriend Cassie, besides known arsenic Cassie Ventura, filed a intersexual abuse, enactment trafficking and artillery suit against the rapper. They settled the lawsuit 1 time later, with Combs' lawyer telling E! News successful a connection that this "does not successful immoderate mode undermine" his client's "flat-out denial of the claims."

This past May, surveillance footage showing the rap mogul physically assaulting Cassie successful a edifice hallway successful 2016 was leaked online. Two days later, Combs released an Instagram video successful which helium called his behaviour "inexcusable" and said helium was "truly sorry," without mentioning his ex.

In her lawsuit, Richard alleges that Combs "openly assaulted" Cassie successful beforehand of her and different radical "on aggregate occasions." She said she offered Cassie enactment and encouraged her to permission Combs, adding that helium aboriginal recovered retired astir the interactions and "became enraged, threatening Ms. Richard's life."

"It was not until Ms. Ventura’s bravery successful coming forward," the suit states, "that Ms. Richard realized her ain idiosyncratic suffering was tied to the galore years of maltreatment by Mr. Combs that had go normalized for her."

Richard filed her suit 1 time aft a Michigan justice ordered Combs to wage implicit $100 cardinal to inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, who sued the rapper for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting him successful 1997, according to tribunal records viewed by E! News. The default judgement was reached aft Combs failed to look for a virtual proceeding successful the case.

Cardello-Smith, 51, is presently serving clip successful situation connected 12 sentences related to transgression intersexual behaviour and 2 sentences related to kidnapping that stem from unrelated cases, tribunal records show.

Combs' lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, disputed the judgement, telling E! News successful a statement, "This antheral is simply a convicted felon and intersexual predator who has been sentenced connected 14 counts of intersexual battle and kidnapping implicit the past 26 years."

The lawyer continued, "His resume present includes committing a fraud connected the tribunal from prison, arsenic Mr. Combs has ne'er heard of him fto unsocial been served with immoderate lawsuit. Mr. Combs looks guardant to having this judgement swiftly dismissed."

E! News has reached retired to lawyers for Cardello-Smith for comment, but has not heard back.