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Sean “Diddy” Combs Faces New Sex Trafficking Charges in Latest Trial

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Sean “Diddy” Combs faces new sex trafficking allegations in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former porn star.

Adria English, who performed under the name Omunique, claims in the lawsuit that she “has lived her adult life with memories of being trapped in a cycle of sex trafficking that she never asked to participate in and was chosen because Defendant Combs knew he could groom her.”

This is at least the tenth lawsuit filed against the rap mogul for physical abuse and sex trafficking. Combs settled a lawsuit in November filed by his ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura who accused him of sex trafficking and sexual assault.

Combs apologized in a video statement in May after surveillance footage emerged showing him attacking Ventura at a Los Angeles hotel in 2016, saying his actions in the footage were “inexcusable” and that he took “full responsibility.” Los Angeles County prosecutors declined to file charges against Combs after the video surfaced. He has denied allegations of sexual misconduct in the lawsuits.

According to the latest complaint, English met Combs while she was working as a dancer at a New York club. Her boyfriend at the time, an aspiring model, auditioned for Combs’ company, Sean John, and was told he could work if English agreed to dance at Diddy’s parties in the Hamptons and Miami, the complaint says.

“Plaintiff did not agree to spend his entire life being used as a sexual pawn for the pleasure and financial benefit of others,” the lawsuit says.

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In this Sept. 15, 2023, file photo, Sean “Diddy” Combs attends an album release party in New York City.

English claims she was forced to drink alcohol and take drugs and then “spellbound” into sexual assault, according to the complaint.

The complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York, also names a woman who English says facilitated Diddy’s alleged sex trafficking operation. The complaint compares her to Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted and sentenced to prison for recruiting and grooming victims of sexual abuse for the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The woman “was to Defendant Combs what Ghislaine Maxwell was to Jeffrey Epstein,” the complaint says. It adds that without “the woman using her inherent goodwill as a woman to gain the trust of another woman, coordinating and acting as an avatar for Defendant Combs, Defendant Combs would be unable to build his corrupt sex trafficking organization.”

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Jonathan Davis, Combs' attorney, denied the allegations in a statement to ABC News.

“No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it will not change the fact that Mr. Combs never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone,” the statement said. “We live in a world where anyone can sue for any reason and with no evidence. Fortunately, there is a fair and impartial judicial process to uncover the truth and Mr. Combs is confident that he will prevail against these and other baseless accusations in court.”

The woman accused in the lawsuit of facilitating the alleged sex trafficking operation did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

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