by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Sept 16 – In May 2024 Crystal McKinney sued Sean Combs for sexual assault under the NYC Gender Motivated Violence in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The suit recounts Combs inviting McKinney to Cipriani Downtown - in 2003 - then to his studio on West 44th Street where he drugged and assaulted her, according to the complaint.
On September 24, 2024, after Combs' arrest and detention in the MDC, Thalia Graves sued Combs and others alleging a 2001 rape, complaint on Patreon here.
On September 26 in Jane Doe v. Combs, plaintiff's counsel filed an affidavit by NYS Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal initially filed in a case against Leon Black, for the proposition that the state statute he sponsored, NYS CVA, was not intended to preempt the NYC law Doe is suing under.
On September 30, Judge Clarke denied Combs' motions as moot: "ORDER In light of Plaintiff's Amended Complaint and Defendants' renewed motion to dismiss, ECF No. [55], the motion to dismiss at ECF No. [41] and the motion for judgment on the pleadings at ECF No. [45] are hereby DENIED as moot. (ORDERED by Judge Jessica G. L. Clarke)(Text Only Order)."
Jump cut to September 4, 2025 - Jane Doe was required to list her name, Anna Kane, and now seeks to proceed to discovery including as to "third assailant." The lawyers for Combs, in the MDC facing October 3 sentencing, argued for a stay, saying the evidence is cold. Judge Clarke said she will rule afterward.
On September 8 she ruled "Plaintiff’s counsel is directed to file a letter (not to exceed 1,500 words) filing on Patreon here
On September 16, from Kane's lawyers, a proposal for "the following: 1. A list of all executives and employees of Bad Boy Records in 2003. This may lead to the need to take discovery from these individuals to ascertain whether they are the Third Assailant. 2. A list of all individuals with whom Mr. Pierre traveled to or from Michigan in 2003. This may lead to the need to take discovery from these individuals to ascertain whether they are the Third Assailant. 3. Discovery from the third party who has been identified to us as being, potentially, the Third Assailant."
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Inner City Press is covering the Combs cases. These include McKinney v. Combs, et al., 1:24-cv-3931 (Buchwald) and this one, Doe v. Combs, 23-cv-10628 (Clarke)
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