Note: This article contains references to alleged sexual assault that some readers may find disturbing.
A woman who sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in October claiming that, in 2000, she was drugged and raped by the disgraced rapper and another “male celebrity” when she was 13 years old, has refiled her lawsuit to name Shawn Carter, AKA Jay-Z, as the second individual who allegedly sexually assaulted her, according to documents viewed by Pitchfork and as first reported by NBC News. Jane Doe is suing both artists for compensatory damages for physical injuries and emotional distress, punitive damages, attorneys’ fees, and more.
Filed in New York federal court, the lawsuit claims that Jane Doe, when she was 13 years old, was dropped off by a friend at New York’s Radio City Music Hall to try to attend the MTV Video Music Awards around September 7, 2000. In an attempt to get into an afterparty, the plaintiff approached limousine drivers and struck a conversation with one who claimed he worked for Diddy. According to the lawsuit, the driver allegedly told her that Diddy “liked younger girls and said she ‘fit what Diddy was looking for.’” Doe claims the driver brought her to a large white house filled with celebrities where two men asked her to sign a nondisclosure agreement (NDA), but did not give her a copy of the document.
After allegedly accepting one drink from waitstaff and feeling woozy, Doe claims she found an empty bedroom to “lie down for a moment” in private. “Soon after, Combs entered the room, along with defendant Carter and a female celebrity,” reads the lawsuit. Doe claims that Diddy “threw” her towards a wall and, after she got up, then “threw” her onto a bed. In the refiled lawsuit, she alleges that Jay-Z removed her clothes, held her down, and raped her while the others watched. Then, she alleges, Diddy raped her while the two celebrities watched. When Diddy allegedly attempted to force her to perform oral sex, she claims she hit him in the neck, grabbed her clothes, and left the bedroom “holding her dress in front of her like a towel” and “[running] around the residence until she found the front door.” The lawsuit states that, once outside, she got dressed, walked until she found a gas station, and called her father to ask for help.