An ex-girlfriend of Sean Combs who claimed the mogul had been regularly pushing her to have “freak-offs” earlier than he allegedly drugged her at his Miami mansion in July — two months earlier than he was arrested — has refiled her civil lawsuit below her actual identify.
The lady, Chelsea Lovelace, filed her lawsuit in opposition to Combs on Sept. 27, 2024, slightly greater than per week after the 55-year-old was charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to interact in prostitution.
Lovelace, who met Combs in late 2020 and dated the mogul till final September, used a Jane Doe pseudonym when submitting the lawsuit, citing the delicate nature of the sexual abuse allegations and concern for her security. However in an announcement to Rolling Stone Thursday, Lovelace stated she was coming ahead together with her actual identify as a result of she needed to decide on “therapeutic over hiding.”
“There was a time I really believed we shared one thing actual. In my coronary heart, for a time I believed he genuinely cared about me,” Lovelace says. “That we each cared for each other in a approach that meant one thing. However over time, that phantasm shattered. And with it, so did elements of me. What I as soon as thought was love and loyalty, rapidly become manipulation, management and abuse. I used to be not seen as an individual with a soul, however as a pawn in a a lot bigger recreation.
“I didn’t need to imagine it. I wrestled with God, with my coronary heart, with my very own silence. Submitting this lawsuit — first as Jane Doe, and now as myself — shouldn’t be an act of revenge. It’s an act of launch,” she continues. “Of standing in my reality. Of selecting therapeutic over hiding. That is about dignity. That is about accountability. That is concerning the numerous instances I advised myself to be quiet and keep loyal—till silence turned too heavy to bear.”
Within the 18-page grievance, Lovelace alleged she met Combs in fall 2020 and the 2 rapidly started a relationship. The couple noticed one another at the least as soon as a month, with Combs organizing Lovelace’s journey to affix him in varied cities, together with Miami, Los Angeles, and New York.
She alleged every time she visited Combs, he would make her “carry out a present” for him.
(Talking beforehand to Rolling Stone in January for an investigation into Combs below the pseudonym “Nicole,” Lovelace stated these exhibits would come with Lovelace slathering herself in warmed child oil and interesting in sexual exercise with Combs that stretched hours.)
Lovelace claimed Combs as soon as sexually assaulted her at his Los Angeles dwelling in April 2022, and all through their four-year relationship, “would constantly stress [her about] including different women and men into the bed room regardless of [Lovelace] being clear that she didn’t need others concerned,” her lawsuit alleged.
In additional unsettling allegations that mirror the testimony at Combs’ legal intercourse trafficking trial from ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura and one other ex-girlfriend utilizing the pseudonym “Jane,” Lovelace claimed Combs routinely gave her alcohol and illicit medication, together with ecstasy, to “compel [her] into participating in intercourse acts with out her consent.”
Combs would allegedly “compel” Lovelace to take these illicit substances till she handed out, as soon as forcing her to take ketamine and one other time shoving two unknown drugs into her mouth — each situations leading to her blacking out. She stated she’d usually get up coated in bruises, as soon as with chunk marks on her toes, with no recollection of how she sustained the accidents.
Lovelace alleged that Combs was controlling, discouraging her from working and having his workers incessantly try to contact her when he couldn’t attain her. Lovelace additionally alleged that she feared Combs could possibly be monitoring her communications when she wasn’t with him.
Throughout her final in-person go to in July 2024, Lovelace beforehand advised Rolling Stone, Combs allegedly requested her about inviting over a person. He was in a state of desperation, she claimed, each begging and insisting that the following time they had been collectively, she would discover a man to deliver into the bed room. “I used to be out and in [of consciousness] that evening,” Lovelace stated. “However I do bear in mind I used to be similar to, ‘I’m simply gonna say sure so he leaves me alone, and I’m by no means coming again. I’m by no means coming again after this.’”
When she awoke from an evening of sexual exercise, her lawsuit alleged, she felt “ailing and confused and couldn’t bear in mind what occurred the evening earlier than and the bed room was in a disarray.”
Within the days main as much as Combs’ arrest, Lovelace beforehand advised Rolling Stone that Combs had been involved, wanting to speak and making an attempt to have her go to him in New York. “I really feel like he was attempting to get me to facilitate it, as a result of then, now I’m not a sufferer,” she defined. “I’m the doer.”
Lovelace’s lawyer, Joseph Ciaccio, stated that his agency, Napoli Shkolnik, “stands by our shopper’s courageous determination to publicly determine herself within the civil case in opposition to Sean Combs,” including, “Her option to step ahead speaks volumes about her energy and resolve. From the outset, our agency has maintained that nobody is above the legislation, particularly these in positions of energy, and that precept stays steadfast. We’re dedicated to pursuing justice on her behalf.”
Lovelace is in search of compensatory damages alongside lawyer’s charges and prices. “I imagine in God’s timing,” Lovelace says. “I imagine that gentle exposes what must be healed. And I imagine that the reality, even when it hurts, is the start of freedom. To those that have stood by me, prayed for me, and held area for my therapeutic — thanks. I’m nonetheless therapeutic. Nonetheless discovering my approach. However right this moment, I select to stroll ahead with my head held excessive and my voice intact.”
