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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Dani Anguiano

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and son Justin accused of rape in new US lawsuit

Man walks out of court
Justin Combs, right, in the blue sweater, exits court in his father’s sex-trafficking trial in New York. Photograph: John Lamparski/Shutterstock

As closing arguments got under way in the federal sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, the music mogul and his son Justin Combs were hit with a new lawsuit, accusing them of a “brutal gang-rape” in 2017.

In the suit filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, a woman alleges that Justin Combs used his father’s celebrity status to “lure [the] plaintiff, a young female, from Louisiana to Los Angeles where she was literally held prisoner for a weekend and repeatedly raped” by the pair and two other masked men, according to the complaint.

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