According to an attorney representing one of his accusers, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs drenched a woman with a lubricant that was mixed with a date rape drug before he assaulted her alongside his bodyguard and another accomplice.
In an interview with NewsNation’s Banfield this week, Ariel Mitchell-Kidd detailed a “gruesome attack” she alleges her client suffered at the hands of Combs and his accomplices.
“Essentially, my client was raped by Mr. Combs, his bodyguard and a friend who invited my client to his home to set up this whole situation,” Mitchell-Kidd claimed. “The details are graphic in nature and the complaint lays out all the details and the graphic and just deplorable way my client was victimized that night.”
Mitchell-Kidd claims that Combs, 54, threatened her unnamed client “with a knife” and made “her take off her clothes” before dousing her in a “liquid substance.”
“He (took) what she believes is some type of liquid substance out of a bag — out of a fanny pack, to be specific — and he squirts it at her,” Mitchell-Kidd alleged. “And she originally thought it was like acid or something, but then she realized that it was some type of lubricant or oil.”
After being soaked in the substance, she felt “her body got more and more limp and she couldn’t figure out what was causing it.”
“It wasn’t as if she was forced any drugs,” the attorney continued. “She said she had a cup of water that she took a sip of, and she knew immediately it wasn’t just water, but she only took a sip, and she felt that whatever the liquid was being squirted on her had something in it which essentially debilitated her and her faculties.”
After numerous allegations from women accusing him of sexual assault, Combs was arrested on Sept. 16 in Manhattan and charged with racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking with the accusations stretching back decades.
According to a criminal indictment, Combs, who was denied bail and remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, is accused of using his “power and prestige” to induce female victims and male sex workers into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs” that the rapper arranged, participated in and often recorded on video. The events would sometimes last days and Combs and victims would often receive IV fluids to recover, the indictment said.
After raiding his homes in California and Florida, authorities uncovered drugs, guns with defaced serial numbers, and “more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant.”
During her appearance on Banfield, Mitchell-Kidd told guest host Brian Entin that she’s done her “own internal research” and believes that Combs laced the oil with a date rape drug like “GHB.”
“So, in order to get that to topically take into somebody’s body, you need a conduit, which is typically oil,” the attorney noted. “So, it seems to me that there were some types of drugs mixed into the oil, which is why he was dousing her in that oil prior, not only to make it easier to assault her, but that was what was lowering her defences.”
Following his arrest, Combs was hit with more sexual assault allegations as a woman filed a lawsuit in New York saying she was repeatedly raped and drugged at the music mogul’s homes and became pregnant after one of the encounters.
Another woman named Thalia Graves has alleged that Combs and his head of security raped her in the summer of 2001 at the Bad Boy Records studio in New York City.
A team of lawyers announced earlier this month that they would be filing 120 sexual assault lawsuits against Combs.
“The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” said Tony Buzbee, one of the lead attorneys, at a Houston news conference. “The wall of silence has now been broken.”
Of the 120 purported victims, 25 were minors at the time the alleged assaults. One individual alleged he was nine years old when he was abused, Buzbee said. The accusations stretch all the way back to 1991 and go up to this year.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to the charges and his mother, Janice Combs, as spoken out in her son’s defence, saying she is “devastated and profoundly saddened” by the accusations against her son.
“It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” Janice Combs wrote in a statement shared to Instagram by her lawyer, Natlie G. Figgers. “To bear witness what seems to be like a public lynching of my son before he has had the opportunity to prove his innocence is a pain too unbearable to put into words. Like every human being, my son deserves to have his day in court, to finally share his side, and to prove his innocence.”