Sara Rivers, a former member of the Bad Boy group “Da Band,” has filed a lawsuit against Diddy.
According to reports, Rivers is suing the disgraced media mogul for $60 million in anticipation of New York City’s Gender Motivated Violence Act window closing. The law allows “victims of gender-based violence to file civil suit against the organizations that may have aided the abuse, along with their abusers.”
The singer’s 148-page lawsuit lists over two dozens defendants including Diddy’s mother, Janice Combs. The suit claims that Rivers was a victim of sexual assault, harrassment, and was forced to work under “inhumane” conditions, at the hands of Diddy.
Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, is currently at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn since he was arrested in September. He is awaiting trial and has been charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. Diddy has plead not guilty to all charges.
Rivers also claims that she was sexually assaulted by Diddy in a hallway where he was close enough to “kiss her and graze her breast.” She also stated that Diddy had physically threatened the group members of Da Band.
Diddy was also accused of expressing abusive and aggressive behavior Rivers and her eating habits, her sleep schedule, and her struggles with bulimia. The lawsuit also cites the imfamous cheesecake episode of Making The Band, where the group members were forced to walk to Brooklyn from Manhattan to get Diddy a slice of cheesecake from Junior’s Restaurant. She called the move “uncompensated manual labor.”
The lawsuit also says that Diddy pressured Rivers to sign a $25,000 publishing contract and then blackballed her after the group broke up in 2004. One of Diddy’s rep responded to Sara Rivers’ lawsuit and said, “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone- man or woman, adult or minor.”
“We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. With the deadline for New York’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act expiring tomorrow, it’s clear that opportunists are rushing to file last-minute, meritless claims. Mr. Combs remains confident he will prevail in court.”
This lawsuit is an addition to the mounting ones that Diddy is facing.