A lady who is suing Sean Combs for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003 has filed a separate lawsuit in opposition to Harvey Weinstein.
In a lawsuit filed Friday, Might 30, in Manhattan Federal Court docket and obtained by Folks, former mannequin Crystal McKinney alleges that in 2003, Weinstein raped her and her pal in a Manhattan lodge room.
McKinney claims that an unnamed modeling govt organized a gathering between her and Weinstein for “enterprise alternatives.” She had been hoping to get into the movie business, and he or she introduced alongside her roommate who was additionally a mannequin who wished to work in movie. They met with Weinstein at a nightclub, in response to the swimsuit.
McKinney claims that Weinstein mentioned he was having points listening to them as a result of noise of the membership, so he invited them to his lodge room on the Ritz-Carlton Battery Park Resort. Based on the swimsuit, McKinney alleges Weinstein “plied” them with alcohol earlier than grabbing her breasts, which brought about drinks to spill on her shirt. She and her roommate went to the lavatory, the place she claims Weinstein “barged” in, uncovered himself, and compelled the roommates to have intercourse with one another in entrance of him earlier than raping them. (An legal professional for Weinstein didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.)
In a separate lawsuit filed in Might 2024, McKinney made allegations in opposition to Combs, claiming he drugged and sexually assaulted her. The swimsuit states that she met Combs at a dinner when she was 22 throughout Males’s Trend Week in 2003. In the course of the dinner at Cipriani Downtown, Combs allegedly behaved “in a sexually suggestive method” and “plied” her with alcohol.
Following the dinner, the lawsuit alleges Combs invited her over to his Manhattan recording studio. She went, believing it was a secure spot because it was an expert setting versus a private residence. Whereas there, she alleged that Combs handed her a joint that she believes was laced with a narcotic. Afterward, she mentioned Combs pressured her to carry out oral intercourse on him.
She then handed out shortly after, and he or she awakened “in shock to search out herself in a taxicab.” Combs has denied all allegations in opposition to him and is presently on trial after being arrested in September. (He’s pleaded not responsible to fees of intercourse trafficking, transportation to interact in prostitution and racketeering conspiracy.) If convicted as charged, he may spend the remainder of his life in jail. Certainly one of Combs’ accusers, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, has testified, claiming he emotionally, bodily, and sexually abused her for greater than a decade. Witnesses, together with Daybreak Richard and Child Cudi, have testified, backing her claims throughout the trial.
Weinstein is presently being retried on sexual assault and rape fees. Within the preliminary 2020 case, Weinstein was convicted on two out of 5 fees, one for a felony intercourse crime, the opposite for third-degree rape. He was sentenced to 23 years in jail, however in April 2024, an appeals courtroom overturned the conviction. The courtroom dominated that prosecutors shouldn’t have been allowed to let a few of Weinstein’s different accusers testify, when their allegations weren’t associated to the fees he confronted.
Weinstein was additionally convicted of rape and sexual assault, and sentenced to 16 years in jail in a separate California case. He has filed an attraction in that case, too.
