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Sean Combs faces fourth sexual assault lawsuit in less than a month

The latest accuser says she was 17 years old when Combs and others allegedly raped her. Combs has denied the allegations.

Sean Combs in 2018. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images)
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A lawsuit was filed against hip-hop mogul Sean Combs on Wednesday alleging that Combs and others trafficked and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl in 2003. It is the fourth sexual abuse lawsuit involving Combs filed in less than a month.

The complaint was filed in Manhattan’s District Court on behalf of an unidentified woman, who is referred to in the lawsuit as Jane Doe. According to the lawsuit, she was in 11th grade when she met Harve Pierre, then president of Combs’s Bad Boy Entertainment, at a Detroit-area lounge 20 years ago. Pierre allegedly told the teenager that he was “best friends” with Combs before getting the influential producer, who was in New York at the time, on the phone.