“Shortly thereafter, Combs entered the room naked,” the lawsuit alleges. “He then bent [Graves] over the table causing her feet to dangle above the floor, forcefully held her down, and anally penetrated her without her consent … [Graves] was unable to move, totally overpowered physically, in addition to being drugged and bound.”
Graves claims she screamed out in pain, but Combs ignored her and continued the alleged violent assault, smashing her head into the pool table when she tried to escape. Graves claims she lost consciousness again, and when she awoke Sherman allegedly slapped her multiple times and forced her to perform oral sex.
Some time later, Graves claims she woke up on a couch naked and alone. She alleges she was in “intense pain and [had] burning sensations in her vagina and anus” with bruising on her face and wrists. “Still dizzy and weak, Plaintiff called a livery driver that her family regularly hired and knew well,” her lawsuit alleges. Graves claims she was disheveled, crying uncontrollably and suffering from agonizing pain. (Neither Sherman nor a rep for Combs immediately replied to a request for comment.0
“The driver drove her to the hospital and tried to convince her to report the rape and get a rape kit, but she was unable to leave the car, ‘shaking and crying hysterically’ and terrified of what Combs would do to her and her family if she reported him,” the lawsuit claims. Graves informed her then-boyfriend of what happened, according to the lawsuit, but he discouraged her from going to the police, allegedly “telling her that it could negatively impact his own career.”
In the years since, Graves alleges that she has moved multiple times and that Combs and Sherman had threatened her to remain silent about the alleged assault. However, she maintains that she disclosed to close friends what happened.
In November 2023, a few days after Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her sex trafficking and sexual abuse lawsuit against Combs, Graves claims that her ex-boyfriend told her that Combs and Sherman had recorded the alleged rape and shown it to others. “He disclosed that Combs and Sherman had a pattern and practice of non-consensually recording women engaging in sexual acts and making those videos available to the public, including by selling tapes as pornography,” the lawsuit alleges.
Graves suffers from PTSD, severe depression, “suicidal ideation and intrusive thoughts, and has attempted to end her life,” her lawsuit says. Her experience has left her in “constant fear.” She is suing Combs, Sherman and eight of Combs’ companies under the New York City’s Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, as well as a state civil rights law for the alleged secret recording and distribution of the sex tape.
This is the latest civil lawsuit against Combs, who has been sued for allegedly sexually abusing at least seven others since Ventura
filed her graphic sex-trafficking complaint against him last November. Combs settled with Ventura for an undisclosed sum within 24 hours, but her 35-page complaint became the roadmap for the music mogul’s criminal prosecution and inspired others to file claims as well.