Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Harvey Weinstein Are Being Accused of Sexual Assault by the Same Woman

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  • Sean “Diddy” Combs and Harvey Weinstein person some been accused of intersexual battle by exemplary Crystal McKinney
  • An amended title revenge connected May 30 against Weinstein alleged that he raped McKinney and a friend successful 2003
  • The exemplary antecedently revenge a suit successful 2024 accusing Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her

Sean “Diddy” Combs and Harvey Weinstein person been accused of intersexual battle by nan aforesaid woman. 

Crystal McKinney — who filed a suit against Combs successful May 2024, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her — has now been named successful an amended May 30 complaint, which was initially revenge successful February 2025, against disgraced movie shaper Weinstein, 73.

The complaint, which is unrelated to Diddy’s lawsuit, alleged that Weinstein raped McKinney and a friend successful a Manhattan edifice room successful 2003. 

According to nan title obtained by PEOPLE, McKinney claims she received a telephone from an unnamed modeling institution executive telling her that he had group up a business gathering betwixt her and Weinstein astatine a celebrated West Village lounge successful nan evening.

McKinney said she brought on a chap modeling friend and roommate to spot if he would “consider her arsenic good for an acting role.”

Crystal McKinney successful 2003.

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They arrived astatine nan lounge and waited for nan movie mogul to get earlier they were ushered to his table, per nan complaint.

McKinney past claimed that Weinstein “repeatedly told them that he wanted to get to cognize some of them better, truthful he could spot their ‘real selves’ ” and suggested that they move nan gathering to “discuss imaginable acting roles” to his spot since nan lounge was “too large and crowded.”

However, erstwhile they sewage backmost to nan edifice room, McKinney alleges successful nan title that nan movie shaper “plied” them pinch alcohol, ordering respective bottles of “Boulevardier and Dom Pérignon” and” vodka cocktails.”

She claimed successful nan suit that astatine 1 point, Weinstein grabbed her breasts and “tore astatine her vessel top,” which caused drinks to slosh connected her garment and prompted her to fly to nan bathroom.

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She further alleged successful nan title that her friend joined her, and Weinstein besides “barged” into nan bathroom, “demanded nan women portion and return a bath pinch him” earlier proceeding to expose himself and participate nan tub.

McKinney said she and her friend “complied pinch his request” arsenic they felt “backed into a area and feared that he would retaliate against them if they refused his intersexual advances.”

McKinney alleged successful nan title that he “directed” nan women to prosecute successful intersexual acts pinch each different successful nan bathtub, earlier he “dragged” them from nan tub to nan bed. She claimed that he past raped her and her friend earlier he “abruptly near nan edifice room.”

McKinney claimed that she was “disgusted but excessively frightened to sound her opposition” and had been heavy “intoxicated” astatine nan time. 

She claimed successful nan filing that Weinstein’s adjunct past called nan edifice room, and McKinney informed her of what took place, but alternatively of “addressing” her complaints, nan adjunct allegedly told her to “leave nan edifice room immediately.”

Following nan incident, McKinney said she knowledgeable “depression, anxiety, anger, self-blame, suicidal ideation, assemblage image issues and demoralization.”

Attorneys for Weinstein and McKinney did not instantly respond to PEOPLE’s petition for remark connected nan complaint. 

Weinstein was convicted successful New York State for rape and intersexual battle successful 2020 and subsequently sentenced to 23 years successful prison. However, his convictions were overturned successful April 2024 aft nan New York Court of Appeals ruled he didn't person a adjacent proceedings because women uninvolved successful nan charges were allowed to testify. 

In January, Weinstein begged a New York judge to move up his retrial date, claiming that he was successful mediocre wellness and didn’t cognize "how overmuch longer” he could “hold on." He is serving jailhouse clip connected Rikers Island owed to his 2022 convictions for activity crimes charges successful California.

As for Combs, he is on trial for activity trafficking and racketeering charges, for which he has pleaded not guilty.