Crystal McKinney who accused Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs of se*ual assault claims to have kept her unwashed clothes that she wore on the night the rapper allegedly attacked her.Â
She claimed to be drugged and assaulted by Combs in 2003, per lawsuit.
HOW IT ALL STARTED
McKinney first gained attention as a model aged 17, when she won MTV’s first ‘Model Mission’ beauty pageant in 1998.
Her early success led her to be invited to a Men’s Fashion Week event in 2003 in New York City, where she claimed in her lawsuit that she was referred to Diddy to help her career.
She reportedly met Diddy because she was told he could ‘advance her modeling career’, but was plied with marijuana and alcohol before being forced to perform oral s*x on the rapper.
HOW DIDDY TRICKED HER
‘Once seated, Combs made a very public display of coming on to Plaintiff in a se*ually suggestive manner which continued throughout the dinner,’ the lawsuit said, adding that he would constantly refill her glass of wine.
After leaving the restaurant, the rapper told her to call him later, and she said she met up later that night at his studio in Midtown Manhattan.Â
McKinney said she arrived to find Diddy drinking and smoking weed with friends, and she joined them.
After becoming intoxicated on both substances, she said she had enough, but Diddy allegedly continued to ply her with more.Â
DIDDY LEFT HER PANICKED
She alleged that at some point, Diddy pulled her into a back room, before forcing her to perform oral s*x on him as she protested, which left her feeling ‘panicked and physically sick’, the lawsuit claimed.Â
The model said she passed out at the studio, and woke up in the back of a taxi heading to the designer’s apartment.Â
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Citing a person named only as ‘the designer’ in the lawsuit, she said they arranged for her to meet the rapper, and gave her a full makeover to impress him.
McKinney said she kept the clothes ‘due to the traumatic events to occur later’, and never washed them before storing them ‘in her closet where they remain in a plastic wrap.’
Now, she believes Diddy ‘blackballed’ her from the industry following the incident, and saw her career crumble.
She attempted suicide in 2004 due to the alleged incident, and said she was constantly reminded of it through the years as Diddy ‘was an inescapable presence in music, television and film.’