As if Sean “Diddy” Combs wanted one other lawsuit thrown his means, that’s precisely what he received on Thursday (April 3). However not like earlier fits, this one seems to contain a few of the most high-profile names but.
In line with USA Right this moment on Thursday, Joseph Manzaro is suing the Dangerous Boy mogul over claims of sexual assault. He’s additionally submitting claims of human trafficking, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, racketeering and intentional infliction of emotional misery. Different defendants within the go well with embrace Eric Mejias, Brendan Paul, Emilio Estefan (husband to Latin singer Gloria) and Adria English.
Within the 64-page go well with, Manzaro alleges he was drugged and brought to a Miami dwelling owned by Gloria Estefan again in 2015 for Christian “King” Combs birthday. Nevertheless, per his timeline, it seems he was first taken to Mejias’ dwelling the place he observed a “greasy substance resembling Vaseline.”
After allegedly witnessing a drug deal go down between Mejias and Diddy’s alleged drug mule Brendan Paul, Manzaro was later taken to Estefan’s dwelling for King Combs’ birthday as a result of Diddy allegedly needed him there for a “freak-off” occasion.
As soon as there, Manzaro claimed he bumped into LeBron James in a hallway and later Jay-Z and Beyonce who have been allegedly current in one other space within the dwelling. Nevertheless, the star studded assembly was lower than excellent as Manzaro claimed he was made to stroll round with a “cock masks” tied to his face and later “forcibly paraded by a number of rooms” earlier than being pressured to strip down bare and put right into a bathe the place he was forcibly washed by girls.
Afterwards, Manzaro alleges he was pressured to put on a “small thong bikini backside and a black leather-based masks with a rubber dam forcibly inserted and zipped closed over his head” whereas performing “degrading and non-consensual acts.”
As famous by PEOPLE, neither Bey, Jay or James are named within the go well with. Nevertheless, reps for the Los Angeles Lakers star and Jay-Z have denied Manzaro claims, alleging that their respective shoppers weren’t even in Miami on the time of the incident and pointed to “ primary web searches” and “simply findable public actions” that assist their timeline versus Manzaro’s. Beyonce has but to reply whereas reps for the Estefans additionally vehemently deny the claims.
Attorneys for Diddy have additionally denied this newest go well with, saying in a press release:
“This criticism demonstrates the wicked lengths plaintiffs will journey to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday. No sane particular person studying this criticism might credit score this story. Mr. Combs seems ahead to having his day in court docket the place these lies – and the perverse motives of those that instructed them – will probably be revealed.”
On account of the ordeal, Manzaro claims he’s skilled “ongoing marketing campaign of focused harassment,” from Mejias which included loss of life and kidnapping threats. He additionally claims that within the years following, he’s needed to cope with “catastrophic bodily accidents, together with extreme inside trauma, everlasting groin injury, sexual maiming and a number of inguinal hernias.”
Manzaro is looking for compensatory, treble and unspecified punitive damages “in an quantity ample to punish” Combs and others in an try to “deter them and others from participating in comparable misconduct sooner or later.”