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Despite what happens at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ criminal sex-crimes trial, there’s a mountain of civil lawsuits waiting for him.

Diddy’s excess-driven lifestyle has been a signature component of his persona, and now it appears central to his downfall.

Many of the following alleged victims recall being given spiked drinks at his purportedly hedonistic soirees, including his infamous White Parties, alleged hotel “freak offs” as well as what should have been professional settings. Incidents allegedly took place during auditions for his artists’ music videos and for his MTV reality series “Making the Band.” Other accusers say Combs recorded the alleged assaults and shared the videos with others.

The alleged victims range from children and teens to adults, seemingly in Combs’ orbit by happenstance, or young men and women who sought to make inroads in the music industry, seeing association with the Bad Boy record executive as an opportunity to pursue their dreams, apparently quickly shattered.

Others include shortterm and longterm romantic partners. Combs’ alleged abuse of his partners may go as far back as his days at Howard University, when a fellow student recalled him beating a woman. Years later, his relationship with singer Cassie and his on-and-off romantic relationship with actress Kat Pasion may also show patterns of alleged abuse.

Aside from an apology video following the release of security footage in which Combs is seen beating Cassie, the music mogul has denied all of the allegations and claimed the video has been altered.

Four unnamed alleged victims, likely on the list thereon, are set to testify in his federal sex-trafficking trial, kicking off with opening statements May 12. The federal government has brought charges against Combs, including sex trafficking, which multiple victims affirm in their own allegations. Combs has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

To date, more than 70 lawsuits have been filed against Combs. In October, Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee announced he would represent 120 individual accusers. Alleged victims represented by Buzbee now account for about half of the lawsuits filed so far.

Here is a complete (and developing) list of his accusers.

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The following is a list of the people who have publicly accused Combs, from the first lawsuit filed by Cassie in November 2023 to the most recent suit in April 2025. The abuse is alleged to have taken place as early as 1991.

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  1. Cassie Ventura: Combs’ former longtime girlfriend and Bad Boy Recording artist who accused him of trafficking, raping and viciously beating her over the course of a decade, beginning a few years after signing to his label in 2006 and ending after he allegedly raped her in 2018. The “Me & U” singer’s lawsuit, settled just a day later, triggered the chain reaction of lawsuits and an investigation that ultimately led to federal criminal charges.
  2. Joi Dickerson-Neal: A then-college student who claimed Combs drugged, sexually assaulted and abused her in 1991, and recorded the incident on videotape, which was distributed to others in the music industry.
  3. Liza Gardner: Claimed Diddy and Guy singer Aaron Hall took turns raping her and a friend after meeting the pair at an MCA Records event in either 1990 or 1991. She initially filed her lawsuit anonymously.
  4. Anna Kane: A then-17-year-old who alleged Diddy and former Bad Boy Entertainment president Harve Pierre “gang raped” her. A year after her filing anonymously in December 2023, a judge ruled she had to reveal her identity.
  5. Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr.: “The Love Album” producer who claimed Combs groped, sexually harassed and assaulted him; facilitated others, including then-girlfriend Yung Miami’s cousin and Cuba Gooding Jr., to assault him; and has not paid him for “thousands of hours of work.”
  6. Grace O’Marcaigh: A steward who claimed Diddy’s son Christian Combs sexually assaulted and harassed her on a yacht the family chartered in 2022. The woman claimed Diddy aided and abetted his youngest son.
  7. Crystal McKinney: A 22-year-old model at the time, who claimed Combs assaulted her and forced her to perform oral sex at his New York City studio in 2003. She says he had her “blackballed” in the modeling industry.
  8. April Lampros: A former New York Fashion Institute of Technology student who alleged Diddy raped her on multiple occasions from 1995 to 2000 or 2001, including one instance in which she claimed he forced her and his then-girlfriend Kim Porter (who died in 2018) to take ecstasy and have sex together before he raped her.
  9. Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith: A longterm Michigan inmate who said Diddy allegedly assaulted him at a Detroit Holiday Inn afterparty. He received a default civil suit judgment in September, which was reversed a week later. The case has been dismissed multiple times, with Cardello-Smith filing an intention to appeal in March.
  10. Adria English: Alleged she was sex trafficked at Diddy’s notorious White Parties from 2004 to 2009. She filed her lawsuit in July 2024. Her lawyers have quit twice, citing their client’s “self-destructive activities” and “unreasonably difficult” conduct.
  11. Dawn Richard: Former Danity Kane and Diddy – Dirty Money singer who accused Diddy of stealing her work, withholding payment and subjecting her to “inhumane” working conditions over the course of their decade-long professional relationship, which allegedly included assault, groping, false imprisonment and multiple instances where she claimed to have seen the producer assault Cassie.
  12. Thalia Graves: Claimed Combs and his then-bodyguard, Joseph “Big Joe” Sherman, “viciously raped her” at the Bad Boy Records studio in New York City, and that Combs recorded and shared footage of the alleged 2001 assault. Sherman is suing her for defamation.
  13. Candice McCrary: A then-19-year-old college student who said Combs assaulted her after a Manhattan photoshoot in 2004. She originally filed her lawsuit anonymously, but her motion to proceed under the pseudonym was denied weeks later.
  14. Ashley Parham: Claimed Combs and others “violently gang raped” her at the Orinda, California, apartment of Shane Pearce, one of his associates, in 2018. Parham refiled her lawsuit months later to add comedian Druski, football wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr., Diddy’s mother Janice Combs and alleged associates to the lawsuit. As with other claims, Combs has denied the allegations, as have Druski and Beckham. California law enforcement officials called Parham’s lawsuit claims “unfounded.”
  15. Bryana Bongolan: A fashion designer who claimed Combs dangled her from a 17th-floor balcony at Cassie’s Los Angeles apartment in 2016, before slamming her into furniture and threatening to kill her.
  16. Latroya Grayson: Said she was hospitalized after Combs allegedly sexually assaulted her at a “black party” after she won a radio station contest to attend one of his New York City parties in 2006.
  17. Phillip Pines: Diddy’s ex-executive assistant, who claimed the Sean John founder made him assist in his sex-trafficking operation from 2019 to 2021.
  18. Sara Rivers: “Making the Band 2” alum and Da Band singer who accused Combs of sexual misconduct in a lawsuit filed in February 2025, on the same day she appeared on Peacock’s documentary “Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy.”
  19. Jourdan Cha’Taun: Former chef who worked for Combs from 2007 to 2010, and alleged the music mogul physically assaulted her during an argument at his home in an appearance on the docuseries “The Fall of Diddy.” Cha’Taun has not filed a lawsuit.
  20. Kat Pasion: A Canadian actress and former girlfriend of Combs on and off in the late 2010s, who claimed in the docuseries “The Fall of Diddy” that he subjected her to nonconsensual sex. Pasion has not filed a lawsuit.

  21. Yinka Adeshina: A woman who, according to a February 2025 lawsuit in which she is representing herself, was allegedly babysat by Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs. From 1972 to 1975, Adeshina claimed Diddy would orally sodomize and forcibly penetrate her, and allow friends to watch and join in. During this time Diddy – born in 1969 – would have been a toddler, but Adeshina claimed he’s “at least 12 years older” than he says.

  22. Aristalia Benitez: A 20-year-old New York University student who claimed Combs sexually assaulted her while she was unconscious at a party in lower Manhattan in 1995.
  23. Justin Gooch: A then 16-year-old who alleged Combs gave him drugs and sexually assaulted him at The Tunnel nightclub bathroom in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City in 1999.
  24. Leslie Cockrell: A then-24-year-old music scout who claimed Combs drugged and assaulted her at his party in the Hamptons in 1999.
  25. Kendra Haffoney: An “I Want to Work for Diddy” cast member who said Combs drugged and assaulted her at a 2007 party after she moved to New York to begin filming the first season of the series.
  26. Laquay Applewhite: As part of a February joint lawsuit with six other alleged victims – Billie Cummings, Ian Fearon, Latasha Forbes, Amad Jenkins, Fallon Matthews and an Alabama Jane Doe – she claimed Combs sexually battered and groped her at an industry party hosted at his Florida home in 2004.
  27. Billie Cummings: Claimed Diddy violently molested and sexually battered her during a New York music video shoot for The Notorious B.I.G. around 1995, when she was 14 or 15 years old.
  28. Ian Fearon: Alleged Combs violently forced him to masturbate and fellate him at his New York apartment around 2003, when Fearon was about 19 years old.
  29. Latasha Forbes: Claimed that Combs violently raped, sodomized and sexually battered her, and encouraged others to do the same, when she was 17 years old and at Bad Boy’s “premises” in New York around 1994.
  30. Amad Jenkins: Claimed Combs groped and sexually battered him at a Bad Boy launch party in Florida around 2004 or 2005, when he was about 18 years old.
  31. Fallon Matthews: Alleged Combs sexually assaulted and battered her in Illinois while she was intoxicated around 2014.
  32. Seven Güzel: An aspiring artist who alleged Diddy manipulated, groomed, drugged, abused and raped her on multiple occasions after first meeting in 2017 – including an alleged assault on a plane and an assault within earshot of his employees – in a February 2025 lawsuit. Güzel also said Combs videotaped her nude and shared the video with others, and prevented her from leaving on multiple occasions.
  33. Joseph Manzaro: Claimed Combs orchestrated the man’s abduction from his Florida home to a party at a Miami residence with multiple celebrities present, where the rapper drugged, humiliated and sexually assaulted him in a targeted revenge plot. Another accuser, Adria English, is a defendant.

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The extensive list of anonymous accusers includes alleged victims detailing assaults from over three decades, from 1991 to 2024:

  1. A Louisiana woman claimed Combs sexually assaulted her at his fatal City College charity game in 1991. She said he sexually assaulted her while his bodyguard “was standing watch” outside of the record executive’s makeshift dressing room.
  2. A woman who was 16 years old when she allegedly auditioned to be a backup dancer for Combs in 1993. She said in a February 2025 lawsuit that a man named “Kay” took her to a home near Long Island, New York, where she was allegedly drugged and Combs assaulted her. She awoke hours later in a car, bloodied and in pain. She said she didn’t report the incident out of fear, but after her parents learned of the assault, she allegedly received medical attention.
  3. A woman who said she was allegedly beaten and raped in 1995 at a promotional party in New York for the Biggie Smalls music video “One More Chance.” Her lawsuit was tossed out after she refused to reveal her identity.
  4. A barber who claimed Combs was a client before the mogul potentially drugged and sexually assaulted him at a recording studio in 1997, according to a February filing. The man alleged that Combs bribed him with cash on multiple occasions to keep him silent.
  5. A New York City woman who worked as a bottle service attendant during multiple alleged incidents with Combs. She alleged Combs’ associates drugged and raped her at his direction at a White Party in 1997, while he watched. And in a second incident in the “late 1990s,” she claimed after running into Combs at a Limelight nightclub party, she and a friend were taken against their will to a penthouse suite at the Trump Hotel, where they were drugged and forced into group sex.
  6. A New York City woman who said Combs forced himself onto her in a bathroom stall and shoved her against the wall at his former New York City restaurant Justin’s when she refused to perform sexual acts. According to her February 2025 lawsuit, a professional athlete had to intervene and pull him off in order for her to escape.
  7. A man who, at 16 years old, attended a 1998 White Party in the Hamptons hosted by Combs. At the party, the man alleged Combs instructed him to expose himself as a “rite of passage.” Combs then allegedly grabbed the man’s genitals.
  8. A Brooklyn, New York, man who was a clothing line operator and claimed Combs subjected him to physical, sexual and emotional abuse over the course of their professional relationship, including a groping incident at an East Hamptons White Party in 1998, according to his February 2025 lawsuit.
  9. A then-23-year-old model and radio station promotional employee who attended a VIP party hosted by Combs claimed the producer drugged and subjected her to four hours of “unwanted touching and groping” at his home around 1999.
  10. A California woman alleged Diddy forced her into group sex at a private “shadow party” in New York City sometime in the 1990s.
  11. A woman who was 13 at the time of her alleged drugging and rape at a party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. The woman claimed that a 30-year-old Combs and an unnamed male celebrity assaulted her while an unnamed female celebrity watched. She would go on to name Jay-Z as the male celebrity. She dropped her lawsuit months later “with prejudice,” meaning it cannot be re-filed in the future. Jay-Z has since sued her and her attorney, Tony Buzbee, for defamation.
  12. A woman who claimed Combs sexually assaulted her in 2000 when she was 16 years old and babysitting for a tenant in a lower Manhattan building where his romantic partner lived.
  13. A Maryland woman who Combs allegedly drugged and forced to give him, his friends and security oral sex in a SUV limo outside of a Club New Yorker Halloween party in 2001.
  14. A New York woman who alleged Diddy’s bodyguard Joseph Sherman, a friend’s love interest, offered her a ride after partying at a nightclub in 2001, then raped her at gunpoint after stopping at his NYC apartment. She names Diddy in the February 2025 lawsuit, claiming Sherman was “directed and encouraged by Combs.”
  15. A Texas man and aspiring actor who attended a music video audition to play a cop, when he said Combs and an unnamed bodyguard drugged and raped him in 2001.
  16. A woman who alleged Diddy’s associates, acting as promoters, picked her up in Times Square in 2002 and took her to his NYC hotel party. Per her February suit, she said she was drugged, led to a room with group sex and groped by two men who stopped after she loudly protested. She said they photographed her ID before she was allowed to leave.
  17. A 19-year-old DJ hired to work Combs’ Hamptons White Party in 2003 when he said he was drugged and Combs and three other men sodomized and raped him. The man said in his February lawsuit that upon attempting to exit, a security guard or associate said, “No one would ever find (your) body” if he spoke of the incident.
  18. A Texas woman who was 17 years old at the time of her alleged assault at a Fourth of July party in the Hamptons in 2004. According to her November filing, she drank a drugged alcoholic drink, later woke up to “throbbing pains in her vaginal and anal areas.”
  19. A California man who was 10 years old when he auditioned for Combs at a hotel in 2005. He claimed Combs, who would have been around 36 at the time, drugged and sexually assaulted the aspiring child actor and rapper.
  20. A Pennsylvania woman who alleged that after visiting Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in New York City in 2006, Combs sent her drinks that made her feel “woozy.” In her February 2025 lawsuit, she claimed he followed her into the bathroom, groped her and tried to force oral sex. She said she was able to escape when the door opened and distracted him.
  21. A man who worked as a security guard at Combs’ 2006 White Party in the Hamptons. The man claimed that he was given two drinks that were drugged, and Combs “forcibly pushed” him into a van, holding him down and sexually assaulted him.
  22. A Michigan man alleged in a February 2025 lawsuit that at 14, he ran into Combs, whom he knew through his father, at an NYC hotel in 2006 and was invited to a room party to play his music. In his February suit, he claimed he was given a drugged drink and later woke up to Combs raping him while a woman filmed.
  23. A man and former model who tried out for a music video at the Bad Boy Records office in Manhattan in 2006, when Combs demanded he take off his clothes and, after the man refused, Combs groped him, per the February 2025 filing.
  24. A then-18-year-old woman who attended a 2007 Hamptons White Party. The woman said in her February 2025 lawsuit that she attended with a friend who left her for 15 minutes. When the friend came looking for the woman, she was allegedly naked and surrounded by men. The friend was able to help her escape.
  25. A male entertainer and musician who said Combs trafficked and coerced him into performing strip shows from 2007 to 2012. The man also accused the record producer of drugging, raping and threatening him on multiple occasions.
  26. A man who worked as an advisor for Ecko Clothing who claimed he was struck and “orally” raped by the Bad Boy founder in a Macy’s store in New York in 2008.
  27. A man who was 17 years old when he said Combs and his bodyguard sexually assaulted him several times when he auditioned for MTV’s “Making the Band” in 2008.
  28. A then-18-year-old musician who alleged that at a 2009 industry party at the Beverly Hills Plaza Hotel, Combs approached him to discuss his music career. Per his February 2025 filing, he claimed he was drugged and taken to a room where Combs raped him and forced him into group sex.
  29. An Alabama woman who, according to a February 2025 lawsuit filed with six other alleged victims, Combs groped, sexually assaulted and raped during a 2010 “Making the Band” audition.
  30. A then-17-year-old who said he got into a SoHo nightclub in 2012, where he was invited to hang out with Combs, who gave him a shot of Ciroc he believes was drugged. In his February 2025 lawsuit, he said Combs raped him in a back room, with him regaining consciousness the next morning.
  31. A man who was hired as an escort to have sex with Diddy’s “female companion” in 2012. The record executive allegedly drugged, forcibly raped and pushed him to perform a series of “degrading” sexual acts on the woman.
  32. An Arizona-based woman who said Combs assaulted her at a Las Vegas party during Memorial Day weekend 2014.
  33. An aspiring male rapper and singer whom Combs allegedly drugged and forced into group sex at Q/C’s 20/20 in LA in 2015.
  34. A woman who was celebrating her 20th birthday at LA’s Club Playhouse in 2016, when Combs allegedly approached her, threatened her to take a drink that she believed was drugged and forcefully penetrated her with his fingers. The woman said she was able to leave the club shortly after.
  35. A Nevada man (who was also an alleged victim of Michael Jackson) and the man’s mother, whom Combs’ associates allegedly kidnapped from their Las Vegas home in 2018. They said they were drugged and beaten at a San Fransisco hotel, with Combs and his associates later raped them. Both claim to have been present during Ashley Parham’s alleged assault.
  36. A Florida woman who said she was 15 years old when her sex trafficker took her and other girls to a party hosted by Combs in 2020. The woman claimed she was drugged ahead of time, and that Combs paid for the girls to be at the party, where she was raped by around 20 of Combs’ guests. The woman alleged she also observed Combs raping a Latina girl, who she believed to be 12 or 13 years old, and later watched her be raped.
  37. A man who attended a New York party in 2021, where he was drugged and assaulted by mutiple men, including Diddy, he claimed.
  38. A rapper-producer who claimed Combs drugged and assaulted her at a house party in Manhattan in December 2022. The original lawsuit was dismissed and then refiled a day later.
  39. A Los Angeles businessman who claimed Diddy assaulted him at a Cîroc party in 2022.
  40. A male personal trainer who alleged Combs assaulted him at an award show afterparty in June 2022.
  41. A Florida man who claimed Diddy drugged and raped him at a 2022 afterparty in Miami.
  42. A Georgia man who alleged Diddy drugged and raped him at a New York City house party in 2022.
  43. A male musician who, while busking outside a “popular nightclub” in LA in November 2022, was invited to a party where he claimed Combs “drugged and forcefully raped” him.
  44. A Southern California man who worked as a photographer and production assistant on the set of a commercial in 2022 or 2023, when Combs allegedly invited him to his trailer. The Revolt TV founder allegedly forced the man to perform oral sex on him in exchange for making the man’s “career take off.”
  45. A woman alleging Diddy drugged and assaulted her in incidents through 2024, after first meeting him overseas in 2020. At one point she became pregnant, she said, and claimed Combs’ ex Yung Miami threatened her. The accuser alleges she eventually suffered a miscarriage.

Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Edward Segarra, Brendan Morrow, Anna Kaufman, Jay Stahl, Pamela Avila, Naledi Ushe, and Anika Reed, USA TODAY

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