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(NewsNation) — Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ex-bodyguard has filed a suit against a pistillate who accused him of sexually assaulting her with the euphony mogul successful 2001, calling her accusations “outrageous and disgusting.”
Joseph Sherman filed a suit for defamation and affectional distress successful New York national tribunal Friday against Thalia Graves, who named him successful a suit on with Combs successful September, USA Today reported.
Sherman called Graves’ allegations of rape "utterly mendacious and untrue” and that she and her lawyers "made outrageous, disgusting, and life-altering statements … without immoderate respect for the truth,” the outlet reported.
He besides says Graves is trying to "blackmail him” and that she had messaged him to spot if helium would supply "false grounds against Sean Combs" successful speech for being near retired of the ineligible proceedings, the outlet reported.
"Joseph Sherman has ne'er met Thalia Graves, fto unsocial raped her,” the filing stated, according to USA Today, and helium "continues to endure terrible reputational harm, affectional distress, and fiscal damages.”
Graves filed a suit successful September alleging that Combs and Sherman “viciously raped her” astatine the Bad Boy Records workplace successful the summertime of 2001, according to tribunal documents obtained by NewsNation section affiliate KTLA.
She besides alleged that the battle was filmed and past shared without the victim’s consent — including selling it arsenic pornography.
Attorney Gloria Allred, right, and Thalia Graves be a property league connected Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, successful Los Angeles. Graves is suing Sean "Diddy" Combs, accusing Combs of intersexual battle successful 2001. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)“By raping the plaintiff and signaling it, the defendants caused the plaintiff to beryllium depicted successful a video representation unclothed and with intimate assemblage parts exposed and engaged successful intersexual behaviour with different person,” her attorney, Gloria Allred, said astatine a news league successful September.
Court documents amusement that Graves didn’t study it for decades retired of fearfulness they “would usage their powerfulness to ruin her life, arsenic they had repeatedly, explicitly threatened to do.”
The incidental near her traumatized and contemplating suicide, according to the filing.
“The trauma of the battle has taken a toll connected my intelligence health. I’ve had PTSD, slump and anxiety,” she said astatine a September quality conference. “It has been hard for maine to spot others, make relationships oregon adjacent consciousness harmless successful my ain skin. The operation of carnal and affectional symptom has created a rhythm of suffering from which it is truthful hard to interruption free."
Combs is accused of utilizing his euphony empire to prosecute successful enactment trafficking and accused of having a signifier of abusing women.
He was arrested Sept. 16 aft months of allegations and a federal raid connected 2 of his properties. He pleaded not blameworthy successful New York tribunal the adjacent day.
The euphony shaper was indicted last period connected 3 felony charges aft months of speculation surrounding a imaginable national probe that could beryllium connected to a slew of civil lawsuits that allege maltreatment and intersexual battle by aggregate victims spanning implicit 30 years.
A May 5 proceedings day was acceptable connected Oct. 10 for him to look enactment trafficking and racketeering charges.
One week aft his indictment, Combs and Sherman were some named successful a suit by Graves, making her the 11th accuser to record a suit against him.
