Sean “Diddy” Combs must pay $100 million in damages in a sexual assault case

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A man who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting him at a party nearly 30 years ago has won a $100 million default judgment in a civil lawsuit against the music producer and entrepreneur, the Detroit Metro Times first reported.

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Combs has been accused of sexual misconduct and sexual harassment by several women since November, all of which he denies. The allegations span decades, with the earliest dating to the early 1990s, when two people claimed they were either raped or sexually assaulted by Combs. His ex, singer Casandra Ventura, said she was raped and subjected to a years-long abusive relationship during the decade they were together, which ended in 2018. Ventura settled a day after filing her $30 million lawsuit against Combs. In February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a high-profile lawsuit accusing Combs of trying to get him to have sex with another man, running a “sex trafficking enterprise” and hosting house parties where he recruited women and underage girls to perform sex acts in exchange for money. Combs moved to dismiss that lawsuit last month.

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