Diddy Faces New Sexual Abuse Lawsuit From Ex-Stylist: ‘Turned His Dream Into a Nightmare’

Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a caller civilian maltreatment suit from his longtime stylist Deonte Nash, months aft the ex-employee testified against the hep hop mogul astatine his transgression trial.

In a lawsuit submitted Wednesday successful a Los Angeles court, Deonte Nash accuses Combs of assault, intersexual artillery and different wrongdoing – the latest of dozens of specified lawsuits filed against Diddy since maltreatment claims archetypal surfaced successful 2023.

The lawsuit from Nash, who besides served arsenic a stylist to Combs’ longtime woman and alleged maltreatment unfortunate Cassie Ventura, comes aft helium testified astatine the star’s blockbuster transgression proceedings successful May, and little than 2 weeks earlier the prima volition beryllium sentenced for his convictions connected prostitution charges.

“Though defendants person silenced him for years, Mr. Nash is nary longer consenting to springiness successful to this fearfulness for his beingness and is present lasting up to request justice,” his lawyers constitute successful the tribunal filings.

In his lengthy complaint, Nash says Combs turned his imagination of moving arsenic a personage stylist “into a nightmare that helium was forced to endure astir each azygous day” for the 10 years helium worked for the prima from 2008 to 2018.

“Combs … subjected Mr. Nash to a decennary of intersexual and carnal assault, intersexual and verbal harassment, trafficking, degradation and humiliation, threats to his beingness and well-being, stalking, control, and intelligence manipulation,” his lawyers write. “Combs utilized his powerfulness and threats of harm to compel Mr. Nash to bash his bidding and forestall him from leaving defendants’ control.”

At a enactment successful “2013 oregon 2014,” Nash says the prima exposed his penis and moved person to him until the stylist told him to stop. During different alleged incidental successful 2016, Nash says Diddy grabbed his manus and forced him to interaction his penis. In yet different incidental successful 2018, helium says the prima “grinded” connected his genitals successful a “sexually-charged” way: “Mr. Nash felt violated and offended by this unwanted intersexual touching.”

The suit besides claims Diddy subjected Nash to carnal violence, arsenic good arsenic “unreasonable demands and expectations” arsenic his stylist. He says helium yet had “no different choice” but to resign successful 2018, but that Combs past “continued to endanger Mr. Nash aft his employment ended.”

In a connection to Billboard connected Wednesday, Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff called Nash “another opportunist looking to nett disconnected his proximity to celebrity” who had filed a suit that was “riddled with falsehoods.”

“Mr. Nash’s tabloid-style accusations are insulting not lone to Mr. Combs but besides to the countless individuals who worked honorably and professionally wrong his companies,” Wolff said. “In court, the information volition prevail, arsenic it did successful his transgression trial: that Mr. Combs has ne'er sexually assaulted anyone—adult oregon minor, antheral oregon woman. Mr. Combs looks guardant to clearing his sanction again successful a tribunal of instrumentality wherever information matters.”

Combs was arrested and charged successful September 2024 with racketeering (RICO) and enactment trafficking violations implicit accusations that helium ran a sprawling transgression cognition aimed astatine facilitating freak-offs — elaborate events successful which helium allegedly forced Ventura and different women to person enactment with antheral escorts portion helium watched and masturbated.

At his blockbuster proceedings this spring, Nash took the witnesser basal for the prosecution, telling jurors helium had seen Diddy physically maltreatment Ventura and endanger to merchandise enactment tapes of her if she didn’t bash what helium demanded.

But erstwhile the verdict was handed down, jurors mostly cleared Combs, acquitting him connected the halfway RICO and enactment trafficking charges that could person seen him sentenced to situation for life. He was convicted lone connected 2 lesser counts of transporting Ventura and others crossed authorities lines for prostitution.

Combs is acceptable for sentencing connected those convictions connected Oct. 3. His lawyers asked the justice Monday to condemnation him to 14 months successful situation — a condemnation that would spot him released astir instantly connected clip served.

But adjacent if he’s released quickly, Diddy is facing dozens of cases similar Nash’s, accusing him of rape, intersexual assault, intersexual harassment and assorted different forms of intersexual abuse. Several person been dismissed successful caller months, including one case filed by Making the Band 2 cont...