Diddy and his mom Janice Combs, who has been vouching for him. However, things are not looking too good for him.

 

Liza Gardner has filed a new lawsuit against incarcerated rapper and hip hop mogul, Diddy, alleging he raped her when she was 16-years-old and he in his twenties. The lawsuit is a new version of one previously filed in New York. The lawsuit lists R&B singer Aaron Hall as a co-defendant, much like in the original filing. However, the new lawsuit includes music producer and Jodeci music group member, Devante Swing (Donald Degrate).

 

Gardner is suing Swing for "aiding and abetting" Diddy's crimes. She stated Swing, who at the time was 21-years-old and her guardian, as he signed her to a music deal and she was living in a New Jersey house he rented, did nothing to stop Diddy from raping her. Gardner states Swing was in the room, saw the rape happening and did not intervene. She also accuses Aaron Hall of raping her as well. Ironically, a few short years later rumors began circulating that Swing was raped in a burglary commissioned by someone in the music industry.

Sean Combs Rape Accuser Claims Jodeci Member ‘Aided and Abetted’ Assault

DeVanté Swing is accused of "aiding and abetting" the alleged sexual assault of Liza Gardner in a lawsuit that also names R&B singer Aaron Hall

October 9, 2024 - The explosive lawsuit that alleges Sean “Diddy” Combs and R&B singer Aaron Hall took turns raping a highly intoxicated 16-year-old girl at a private residence in 1990 has added Jodeci member DeVanté Swing as a co-defendant.

In a new, amended complaint filed in federal court in New Jersey, plaintiff Liza Gardner alleges Swing, born Donald DeGrate, was present at Hall’s New Jersey residence in 1990 when Combs allegedly pulled Gardner’s underwear to the side and “forcefully” raped her, leaving her “shocked and traumatized.”

“Unbeknownst to Ms. Gardner at the time, Defendant Swing was in the room when this assault took place and did not take any steps to prevent this abuse from occurring,” the amended lawsuit obtained by Rolling Stone states. The new filing follows after a woman submitted a sworn statement in the case last May stating she was a fellow minor accompanying Gardner that night and allegedly saw Swing “leaning against the wall or furniture or something, watching whatever Puffy was doing to Liza.”

In the new filing, Gardner alleges Swing was 20 or 21 years old at the time, a few months older than Combs. She says she had traveled to the New York area with Swing and a group of friends from her hometown in North Carolina and was staying with him in his New Jersey housing allegedly “subsidized” by Jodeci’s label at the time, Uptown Records, a subsidiary of MCA. The lawsuit says Combs was working as an A&R executive at Uptown and was assigned “the task of developing” Jodeci when he met Gardner at an MCA event in Manhattan that night and traveled back to New Jersey with her group to Hall’s residence...

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