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WATCH: Gloria Allred and alleged victim of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs hold press conference

Attorney and women’s rights advocate Gloria Allred is holding a press conference Tuesday to discuss her representation of an alleged victim of Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Allred and the victim, Thalia Graves, announced another lawsuit against the rapper alleging Combs and another defendant committed a “violation of New York City’s victims of gender-motivated violence protection law by viciously and violently forcing sexual contact (including) oral sex and sexual intercourse on the plaintiff,” Allred stated Tuesday.

“In addition, the complaint alleges in the second cause of action that defendant Combs and another defendant…by raping the plaintiffs and recording it,” she said. “The defendants caused the plaintiff to be depicted in a video image unclothed and with intimate body parts exposed and engaged in sexual conduct with another person.”

Combs and another defendant then allegedly disseminated the video without Graves’ knowledge, Allred continued, including by selling it as pornography.

Graves also spoke at the press conference, saying through tears that the internal pain after being sexually assaulted was “incredibly deep and hard to put into words.”

“It goes beyond just physical harm caused by the assault,” she said. “It’s a pain that reaches into the very core of who you are and leaves emotional scars that may never fully heal. Some of the hardest parts of this pain are the shame and the guilt I have experienced that plays a negative part in my day- to-day ability to function properly.”

On Sept. 16, Combs was arrested at a Manhattan hotel and charged with a slew of crimes. The indictment against him, which was unsealed the following day, describes him as the head of a criminal enterprise that engaged or attempted to engage in sex trafficking, forced labor, interstate transportation for purposes of prostitution, drug offenses, kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice.

He has pleaded not guilty to all crimes against him and has been denied bail twice.

The indictment comes after federal agents raided homes tied to Combs in Los Angeles and Miami back in March.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs arrest and indictment: A timeline of key events

All of this comes almost a year after the hip-hop mogul was sued by his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura for rape and abuse. She filed the lawsuit in November of 2023 and it was settled a day later. Combs vehemently denied the allegations. After this, more alleged victims of Combs have come forward.

In May of this year, surveillance video was released showing Combs physically attacking Ventura in a Los Angeles hotel. Following the video’s release, the Bad Boy Records CEO issued an apology to social media calling his actions “inexcusable.”

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