Sean 'Diddy' Combs named in lawsuit alleging sexual assault at a 2006 'black party'
Sean "Diddy" Combs has been named in two new civil lawsuits Friday – one of which accuses him of sexually assaulting a 23-year-old woman who'd won a radio station contest to attend one of his New York City parties in 2006.
In a lawsuit filed in New York federal court, LaTroya Grayson alleged she'd attended Combs' "black party" on Oct. 16, 2006, and woke up in the hospital the next morning with no recollection of the previous night.
The filing, which includes photos of purported receipts and plane tickets as well as pictures allegedly taken at the party, states that she drank "less than" two drinks that were passed around by servers and woke up at Saint Vincent's Medical Center of New York.
Grayson "believed she was drugged, assaulted, robbed with no memory of how she arrived at the hospital as her last memory was being at Diddy's Black Party," the complaint states.
At the hospital, Grayson claims, she found "her shirt was ripped, her underwear was missing, she was not wearing any shoes and the money she had traveled with was stolen. The only money Plaintiff had remaining was a twenty-dollar bill."
She alleges that the following day an "anonymous female caller" threatened her against pursuing Combs for the alleged assault. Based on this call, Grayson says, she learned Combs "was involved" in the assault.
Nearly a month before the lawsuit's filming, The Mirror published an interview with Grayson about the alleged assault.
Diddy's lawyers deny 2006 sexual assault claim
In a statement shared with Paste BN Friday, Combs' attorneys said: "Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone or engaged in sex trafficking. Ms. Grayson admits she has no memory of the events alleged in her complaint, does not know who was supposedly involved, and has never spoken to Mr. Combs.
"Her allegations against him are pure fiction. As we’ve said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every baseless lawsuit and lawyer-driven money grab. He has faith in the judicial process, in which fact will be separated from opportunistic fabrications like these."
In her lawsuit, Grayson says she and her half-sibling won a radio station contest, hosted by Tulsa's 105.3 KJAMZ FM, to partake in an all-expenses paid trip to one of Combs' parties in New York City. She claims Atlantic Records "facilitated the event" and arranged for her travel, accommodations and transportation.
After her alleged assault, she says she experienced vaginal pain but did not "report her assault to law enforcement because she was scared and confused."
Grayson accused Combs and the other defendants – including his Bad Boy Entertainment label, Atlantic, the Tulsa radio station and Delta Airlines – of participating in a RICO enterprise, claiming they were "100% liable" for Combs' alleged actions. She also alleged negligence, sexual assault and battery and violation of the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act.
Paste BN has reached out to Atlantic Records, Delta Airlines and KJAMZ for comment.
Jane Doe claims Diddy sexually assaulted her ahead of fatal stampede at City College
Also on Friday, a Jane Doe living in Louisiana, who is represented by attorney Tony Buzbee, filed a lawsuit in the same court accusing Combs of sexually assaulting her in 1991 after they met at a charity basketball game at New York's City College.
In the filing, which was obtained by Paste BN, she claims to have been invited to the ill-fated event – where nine people died in a stampede – by a rapper. When he could not be located, she was allegedly introduced to Combs in his makeshift dressing room. That was where he sexually assaulted her while his bodyguard "was standing watch" on the other side of the door, she claims.
Doe seeks compensatory damages for her injuries and emotional distress, as well as punitive damages for the alleged assault.
Her lawyer, Buzbee, has filed nearly two dozen lawsuits from alleged victims, including minors, who accuse Combs of sexually assaulting them in a three-decade span. He has been engaged in a legal feud with Shawn Carter, known as Jay-Z, this month, since he filed an amended lawsuit on behalf of a client who claims the music mogul and Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000, when she was 13 years old.
Carter has vehemently denied the allegation. In response to the lawsuit's original filing in October, Combs' representatives said Buzbee's "barrage of filings were clear attempts to garner publicity" and that Combs "has never sexually assaulted anyone—adult or minor, man or woman.”
Combs, is currently in jail after being denied bond multiple times and has a trial start date of May 5, 2025. He has maintained his innocence amid more than two dozen mounting civil lawsuits over the past year that have accused him of rape, trafficking and sexual abuse from the 1990s to 2022.
In September, he pleaded not guilty to racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers free, confidential, 24/7 support to survivors and their loved ones in English and Spanish at: 800.656.HOPE (4673) and Hotline.RAINN.org and en Español RAINN.org/es.