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Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of “violently” raping a woman and filming the attack in 2001

Another woman filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, accusing the disgraced rapper of “brutally” raping her in 2001.

According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Thalia Graves claimed that the “I'll Be Missing You” musician and his security chief Joseph Sherman lured her to the Bad Boy Records studio in New York City and sexually assaulted her.

Graves, then 25, said she was dating one of Combs' employees when the music mogul asked her to meet at his studio.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been charged with sexual assault again. REUTERS
A dozen people have accused the rapper of sexual assault over the past year. Mark Von Holden/Invision/AP

When Graves arrived at the office, Combs and Sherman reportedly cornered her and gave her a drink “that was likely laced with a drug that eventually caused her to briefly lose consciousness.”

Graves allegedly woke up bound and handcuffed, and the two men subsequently raped her vaginally and anally, according to documents obtained by TMZ.

The woman was suicidal and underwent extensive therapy for the alleged assault. Despite the treatment, Graves still suffers from severe depression, anxiety and panic attacks, according to doctors.

Thalia Graves filed a lawsuit against the imprisoned rapper on Tuesday. AP
She accused Combs of raping her in 2001. AP

However, fearing retaliation from Combs, who she said had threatened her, she never reported the alleged incident.

Graves said her trauma resurfaced in November 2023 after she learned that Combs and Sherman had allegedly recorded her “gruesome rape.”

While it is unclear how she learned about the alleged video evidence, Graves claimed that they showed the tape to numerous other men in an attempt to humiliate and degrade her.

Diddy's representatives did not immediately respond to Page Six's request for comment.

Graves claims that Combs and his security guard recorded the alleged assault. REUTERS
The disgraced rapper is said to have drugged her, according to the indictment. Getty Images

More than a dozen people have filed sexual assault lawsuits against Combs in the past year.

The rapper's ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, opened the floodgates in November 2023 after filing a high-profile lawsuit against her ex, accusing him of rape and physical abuse during their ten-year relationship.

Although the two reached a settlement less than 24 hours later, video evidence was released on May 17, 2024, showing Combs hitting the singer in a hotel hallway – corroborating some of Ventura's claims.

The Department of Homeland Security launched an investigation into the rapper after a growing number of complaints were filed against him. In March, authorities searched Combs' homes in Los Angeles and Miami and found firearms and over 1,000 bottles of baby oil.

The lawsuit was filed just a week after Combs was arrested on sex trafficking and organized crime charges. Getty Images,
His ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura was the first person to accuse him of sexual assault and abuse in November 2023. Billy Farrell/BFA.com

Combs was arrested last week and charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and prostitution.

In the 14-page, unsealed indictment, prosecutors alleged that for decades he “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him to satisfy his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his behavior.”

They accused the rapper of “creating a criminal organization whose members and accomplices were involved in sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.”

Combs, who pleaded not guilty, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison if convicted. He is currently being held without bail in a New York jail.