Sean “Diddy” Combs hired attorney Bobbi Sternheim, who represented Jeffrey Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell, to defend him in a gang rape case. According to court documents obtained by AllHipHop, Sternheim informed a New York court she was Diddy’s lawyer on Thursday (February 15).
Last year, a woman identified as Jane Doe accused Diddy and others of gang-raping her when she was 17 years old. She sued the Hip-Hop mogul, former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre, the record label and Daddy’s House Recordings.
Jane Doe said Diddy, Pierre and a third man raped her at a New York studio in 2003. Her lawsuit also noted she was the victim of sex trafficking.
“While at the studio, Mr. Combs and his associates, including Mr. Pierre, plied Ms. Doe with drugs and alcohol,” the lawsuit alleged. “As the night wore on, the 17-year-old Ms. Doe became more and more inebriated, eventually to the point that she could not possibly have consented to having sex with anyone, much less someone twice her age. While at the studio, Ms. Doe was gang raped by Mr. Combs, the Third Assailant and Mr. Pierre, in that order.”
Jane Doe’s complaint revealed gruesome details of the rape.
“Mr. Combs then watched on as Third Assailant, who Ms. Doe had not even realized had begun to have sex with her, raped Ms. Doe as she told him to stop,” the lawsuit explained. “After Third Assailant was finished, Mr. Pierre took his turn at raping Ms. Doe and then violently forced her to give him oral sex, during which Ms. Doe was choking and struggling to breathe. When Mr. Pierre finished, he left Ms. Doe in the bathroom alone. Ms. Doe fell into the fetal position and lay on the floor.”
It continued, “Finally, after a period of time, Ms. Doe regained her bearings. However, she could barely stand up following the gang rape and had to be helped to walk out of the building and back into a car. She was taken back to an airport and flown back to Michigan. However, she has very limited recollection of her transport home and only remembers being in her car sometime early in the morning.”
Jane Doe was one of the women who sued Diddy for sexual assault after he settled a rape lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend Cassie. He denied the allegations and claimed his accusers were “individuals looking for a quick payday.”
