Dawn Richard Sues Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: ‘Abuse And Exploitation’

As a participant in Diddy’s widespread MTV collection Making the Band again in 2004, Richard claims in courtroom paperwork obtained by TMZ that Combs allegedly referred to as contestants “fats,” “ugly,” “b****es” and “hoes.”

She additionally alleges to have seen Combs’ ex Kim Porter leaving a studio crying with bruises throughout her face in 2005. Years later, Richard claims she witnessed Diddy throw Ventura towards a wall, choke her, and drag her up a flight of stairs in his Los Angeles residence.

Daybreak goes on to say that she noticed Combs throw a “scalding” scorching pan of eggs on Cassie whereas yelling at her, and in one other occasion, allegedly punch Ventura within the face and try and strangle her along with his naked fingers.

In line with the lawsuit, Richard and her Soiled Cash bandmate Kalenna Harper tried to assist Cassie by urging her to depart, which led to Combs allegedly threatening them, saying: “Y’all b****es don’t get in my relationship,” “Simply generate profits and shut the f**okay up,” and “You b****es need to die as we speak?”

As for the abuse she allegedly suffered, Richard claims Combs pressured her to rehearse for 48 hours with out sleep, inflicting her to lose a considerable quantity of weight and develop rashes throughout her physique. From 2009 to 2011, Daybreak additionally alleges Combs sexually assaulted her quite a few occasions, touching her close to her breasts and butt whereas she was undressed in a altering room.

“Mr. Combs incessantly smacked Ms. Richard’s naked buttocks and sometimes commented on her physique, noting that though she was ‘too skinny,’ she had an ‘a**’” the lawsuit reads.

In her lawsuit, Daybreak Richard is in search of compensatory damages; a financial judgment for psychological ache, anguish, and emotional misery; punitive and exemplary damages; and for him to cowl her attorneys’ charges.

Danity Kane and P. Diddy attend MTV’s “Making The Band 4: The Closing Chapter” reside finale at The Hudson Theatre on April 23, 2009 in New York Metropolis. Supply: Jerritt Clark / Getty

In fact, this is only one of a number of lawsuits Combs is at present going through.

The Unhealthy Boy founder settled Ventura’s rape and abuse lawsuit towards him simply someday after she filed it in Nov. 2023.

Months later, video surveillance of Diddy brutally attacking Cassie in a lodge in 2016 was launched to the general public. On the time, he issued an apology however claimed the incident was out of the peculiar.

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