Diddy is being sued four times under the Gender-Motivated Violence Act

The once-adored mogul is still facing a growing number of lawsuits.

New cases against Diddy have been brought under the Gender-Motivated Violence Act. According to a number of sources, the troubled businessman is currently dealing with four fresh lawsuits alleging that Diddy drugged and sexually abused the plaintiffs over a range of occasions. As the GMVA window to sue their claimed abuser retroactively ends on March 1, 2025, all of the lawsuits were filed in New York.

The complainant in the first lawsuit is Aristalia Benitez, who initially interacted with Diddy in 1995. According to Benitez, she lived in New York City at the age of 20 when she first met Sean Combs. She was asked to and went to a party at a restaurant where the inventor of Sean John was while she was employed at Peppe Jeans. According to the lawsuit, she says that after accepting a “non-alcoholic drink,” Combs “allegedly forcibly groped and fondled [her] breasts, butt, and genital area under her clothes.”

According to Benitez, she felt discomfort in her groin area as she woke up from unconsciousness in the back of a taxi. After putting the night together, the woman says she acknowledged that she had been “vaginally penetrated by Defendant Combs” and a few of Combs’ companions at some time.

According to Justin Gooch, who was 16 when he allegedly recalled it, he was sexually assaulted in 1999. Gooch claims that he traveled to New York City to attend a party at the Tunnel nightclub while residing with his grandparents in New Jersey. The child claims to have encountered Diddy at this now-closed location, when the performer invited him to join him in a restroom stall. After giving Gooch ketamine, Combs allegedly “anally penetrated him without consent.” “That wasn’t so bad, was it?” Diddy reportedly asked the minor after the assault.

According to Leslie Cockrell’s lawsuit, the hip-hop legend attacked her in 1999 when she was just 24 years old. Cockrell took a beverage Combs handed her at one of Puffy’s well-known Hampton parties. According to the lawsuit, Leslie recalled seeing the residence “packed inside and outside with naked people who were engaging in sexual activities together” before he began to drift in and out of consciousness. Diddy was allegedly having sex with Cockrell without her consent when she woke up. The woman was then ordered by Combs to keep the events at the party a secret.

The fourth lawsuit against VH1 and Sean Combs was filed by Kendra Haffoney. According to her, in 2007, she worked at a Los Angeles designer shop. According to Haffoney, she was invited to an afterparty while working on the VH1 program I Want to Work for Diddy. She says she was led to a backroom at the event where Diddy and other unidentified associates were relaxing. As Diddy reportedly “guided her head down to have her perform oral sex on him,” Kendra says she began to feel dizzy. When Haffoney finally passed out, “her vaginal area felt sore,” and she woke up to discover Sean Combs at the foot of the bed. According to the designer, she was then asked to return to Combs’ estate, where the mistreatment persisted.

“No matter how many lawsuits are filed—especially by people who refuse to put their own names behind their claims—it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted, or sex trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor,” said Sean Combs’ representatives in a statement to Variety in response to the lawsuits. This lawsuit consists solely of a jumble of media headlines, snippets from other lawsuits, and unfounded rumors. Opportunists are rushing to submit last-minute, baseless claims in anticipation of tomorrow’s expiration of New York’s Gender-Motivated Violence Act deadline. In our society, anyone can bring a lawsuit for any cause, but that doesn’t mean the allegations are accurate. Mr. Combs is certain that he will win the case.