Bad Boy Records co-founder becomes latest figure to sue Diddy, claiming “forced compliance” with sex acts

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for alleged sexual harassment and “forced compliance with degrading sexual acts”.Kirk Burrowes, who established the powerful label that was home to The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans and Lil Kim alongside Combs in 1993, filed the lawsuit on Friday (February 28), outlining what he describes as a workplace filled with sexual and physical abuse.As reported by Rolling Stone, Burrowes claims that Combs’ abusive behaviour went on to morph into physical violence, blackmail, blacklisting and financial extortion.Diddy’s representatives have not responded to the suit, but his team have spoken out several times this week in response to other lawsuits, asserting: “No matter how many lawsuits are filed…it won’t change the fact that Mr.

Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone”.Burrowes alleges that Combs groped his crotch and buttocks and forced him to watch Combs engage in sex acts with co-workers at their Manhattan offices.

He outlines an alleged incident in 1995 when Combs greeted him in the nude and “demanded that he watch as [Combs] masturbated”, and another where he allegedly “prevented him from leaving by removing his keys, pinning him down onto a bed and simulating intercourse until he ejaculated”.Burrowes was fired from Bad Boy in 1997, and he claims that a year prior, Combs burst into his office wielding a baseball bat in an attempt to force him to sign over his 25 percent stake in the company “or face violent repercussions”.Last September, Diddy was arrested and charged with crimes including sexual trafficking and racketeering.

He has since been held in a federal jail in his hometown awaiting trial, which is set to begin on May 5.Diddy has been denied bail on multiple occasions while.