Sean ‘Diddy' Combs and Harvey Weinstein Are Being Accused of Sexual Assault by the Same Woman
Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Harvey Weinstein have both been accused of sexual assault by model Crystal McKinney
An amended complaint filed on May 30 against Weinstein alleged that he raped McKinney and a friend in 2003
The model previously filed a lawsuit in 2024 accusing Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting herSean 'Diddy' Combs and Harvey Weinstein have been accused of sexual assault by the same woman.
Crystal McKinney — who filed a lawsuit against Combs in May 2024, accusing him of drugging and sexually assaulting her — has now been named in an amended May 30 complaint, which was initially filed in February 2025, against disgraced film producer Weinstein, 73.
The complaint, which is unrelated to Diddy's lawsuit, alleged that Weinstein raped McKinney and a friend in a Manhattan hotel room in 2003.
According to the complaint obtained by PEOPLE, McKinney claims she received a call from an unnamed modeling company executive telling her that he had set up a business meeting between her and Weinstein at a popular West Village lounge in the evening.
McKinney said she brought along a fellow modeling friend and roommate to see if he would 'consider her as well for an acting role.'
They arrived at the lounge and waited for the film mogul to arrive before they were ushered to his table, per the complaint.
McKinney then claimed that Weinstein 'repeatedly told them that he wanted to get to know both of them better, so he could see their 'real selves' ' and suggested that they move the meeting to 'discuss potential acting roles' to his place since the lounge was 'too loud and crowded.'
However, once they got back to the hotel room, McKinney alleges in the complaint that the film producer 'plied' them with alcohol, ordering several bottles of 'Boulevardier and Dom Pérignon' and' vodka cocktails.'
She claimed in the lawsuit that at one point, Weinstein grabbed her breasts and 'tore at her tank top,' which caused drinks to slosh on her shirt and prompted her to flee to the bathroom.
Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.
She further alleged in the complaint that her friend joined her, and Weinstein also 'barged' into the bathroom, 'demanded the women strip and take a bath with him' before proceeding to expose himself and enter the tub.
McKinney said she and her friend 'complied with his request' as they felt 'backed into a corner and feared that he would retaliate against them if they refused his sexual advances.'
McKinney alleged in the complaint that he 'directed' the women to engage in sexual acts with each other in the bathtub, before he 'dragged' them from the tub to the bed. She claimed that he then raped her and her friend before he 'abruptly left the hotel room.'
McKinney claimed that she was 'disgusted but too frightened to voice her opposition' and had been heavily 'intoxicated' at the time.
She claimed in the filing that Weinstein's assistant then called the hotel room, and McKinney informed her of what took place, but instead of 'addressing' her complaints, the assistant allegedly told her to 'leave the hotel room immediately.'
Following the incident, McKinney said she experienced 'depression, anxiety, anger, self-blame, suicidal ideation, body image issues and demoralization.'
Attorneys for Weinstein and McKinney did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment on the complaint.
Weinstein was convicted in New York State for rape and sexual assault in 2020 and subsequently sentenced to 23 years in prison. However, his convictions were overturned in April 2024 after the New York Court of Appeals ruled he didn't receive a fair trial because women uninvolved in the charges were allowed to testify.
In January, Weinstein begged a New York judge to move up his retrial date, claiming that he was in poor health and didn't know "how much longer' he could 'hold on." He is serving jail time on Rikers Island due to his 2022 convictions for sex crimes charges in California.
As for Combs, he is on trial for sex trafficking and racketeering charges, for which he has pleaded not guilty.
Read the original article on People
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
New York Times
34 minutes ago
- New York Times
Reds beat Brewers on TJ Friedl's walk-off home run robbery
CINCINNATI — The question is absurd and has no correct answer, but what's better, a walk-off home run or a walk-off home run robbery? 'Granted, I don't have a walk-off catch, I don't know the experience with that, but I would say a walk-off home run is the (ultimate) thing you can do in a baseball game,' said Will Benson, whose first career big-league home run was a walk-off homer against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Advertisement Cincinnati Reds center fielder TJ Friedl has a pair of walk-off hits, both singles, not homers, but Tuesday he got the chance to walk off the game on defense, robbing Milwaukee Brewers pinch hitter Jake Bauers of a score-tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning in the 4-2 Reds victory. 'This is tops,' Friedl said after the victory. 'This tops my other walk-offs for sure. To end a game like that, you dream of that as an outfielder growing up and in your backyard robbing home runs.' Of course, either one will do. Tuesday's victory didn't need dramatics to make it feel significant, even if it didn't hurt. The win not only snapped the Reds' three-game losing streak but also the Brewers' eight-game winning streak. With the win, the Reds have a chance to take a series from the Brewers for the first time in 12 series. Since the start of 2023, the Brewers have won 23 of 32 games against the Reds and 30 of 41 games at Great American Ball Park since Sept. 24, 2019. Baseball seasons are long, with highs and lows, but sometimes patterns start to emerge. It's not just that the Reds have struggled to win games against the Brewers, it's how they've lost them, losing leads, costly mistakes, hard-hit balls finding gloves — just about everything that could go wrong had, and often it was against the team that's won the National League Central the last two years and made the playoffs in six of the last seven seasons. To make too much of one game is foolish, even in September, much less at the beginning of June. That said, Tuesday's win, featured a pair of opposite-field homers and a sacrifice fly to go along with Friedl's dazzling defensive play and starter Hunter Greene's pumping in strike one to all 23 batters he faced. The Reds, who still don't have a walk-off hit this year, have the fifth-most runs in baseball through the first six innings of games and the ninth fewest after the sixth inning. Advertisement Tuesday, the Reds not only took the lead in the seventh but also added on in the eighth inning with Benson's sixth home run of the season. All of that, though, was nearly lost when shortstop Elly De La Cruz made his 10th error of the season, tying him with Manny Machado of the San Diego Padres for the most in baseball. The Reds also lost Greene after five innings when he felt the hamstring that put him on the injured list earlier this year grab on the final pitches of the fifth. He is scheduled to have an MRI on Wednesday. As Caleb Durbin stood at second base after De La Cruz's attempted game-ending throw sailed well over the head of Spencer Steer at first and into the first-base camera well, it felt like another bad loss for a Reds team that started the season with a blown save on Opening Day. Too often this season, the team has managed to grab defeat from the jaws of victory. To make matters worse, Reds closer Emilio Pagán got behind Bauers 2-1 when the Brewers pinch hitter jumped on his four-seam fastball and hit it 106.2 mph with a launch angle of 26 degrees. It was, Friedl thought, about as well as you could hit a ball without its going out. Would it have gone out had Friedl's glove not gotten in the way? After seeing just one replay, Friedl said he wasn't sure, but he knew he got his glove over the wall and then felt the ball hit the webbing. It was a play the team had practiced just the day before, with outfielder coach Collin Cowgill shooting baseballs from a pitching machine for Friedl, Benson and Jake Fraley to practice catching at the wall. 'We literally worked on it yesterday,' Friedl said after Tuesday's victory. 'In 2023 when I robbed that one in center, we worked on it that day. Then it just so happens we worked on it yesterday. … Maybe we should work on it more often.' Is this the dagger? #ATOBTTR — Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) June 4, 2025 Friedl said he was so excited he initially forgot to show the ball to second base umpire Nic Lentz until he noticed Lentz staring at him. Reds manager Terry Francona, who might have said some words he wouldn't repeat in the postgame news conference while watching the flight of Bauers' ball, said he wasn't sure whether Friedl caught the ball until he saw his reaction. Advertisement 'You may have seen a grown man crying,' Francona said, referring to himself. It was the type of play that has seemed to go against the Reds so far this year. Just the day before, with the Reds trailing 3-2 in the fifth, Friedl led off the inning with a bunt single and took off to steal with Gavin Lux at the plate. With Friedl on the move, Brewers shortstop Joey Ortiz was standing next to the bag where he fielded the ball and threw on to first for a double play. Earlier this season, second baseman Matt McLain had what he thought was a go-ahead home run land just short in the ninth inning of a 3-2 loss in Milwaukee. That was the day after the Reds lost their third 1-0 game in a row with the only run scored by the Brewers unearned. 'It's still a long season, there are so many games left, but I feel like this is who we are and we can win in so many different ways,' said Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson, whose fifth-inning two-run home run tied the score at 2. 'I don't know, people will say it's a spark or whatever, but to end the game like that, it's obviously something to build off of.' Before Tuesday's game, Francona was asked whether he could tell when a team was about to go on a hot streak. 'Believe me, if there were a magical elixir, I would (get) it,' Francona said. 'I think there is a formula — normally you win a close game.' The Reds did that, and it wouldn't be the first time a Friedl walk-off sparked them. His first career walk-off came April 24, 2023, against the Texas Rangers. That not only snapped a six-game losing streak, but it was the first of a five-game winning streak, including a sweep of the Rangers, who would go on to win the World Series. In June of that same season, the Reds had back-to-back walk-off wins against the Dodgers, the second won on Benson's walk-off homer. The Reds would lose the next two games but then go on a 12-game winning streak. Advertisement Nobody is saying this Reds team will repeat that. To do that, they'd have to hope McLain started turning it around with a seventh-inning double that set up Connor Joe's go-ahead sacrifice fly. A good MRI on Greene's hamstring Wednesday wouldn't hurt, nor would another stellar outing by Andrew Abbott, who allowed just two earned runs over six starts in May, to take the team's first series from the Brewers since May 2022. 'It's reaffirming to realize that we can win those close games, we don't have to go out and score seven or eight runs and make all the spectacular plays,' Pagán said. 'Yes, we ended it with one tonight, but there's enough talent in here to just play baseball and go win games.'
CBS News
40 minutes ago
- CBS News
Long Beach and Inland Empire Job Corps centers close
A longtime federal program that provides job training, housing and second chances to hundreds of at-risk youth nationwide is shutting its doors in Long Beach and the Inland Empire today. "I'm kind of nervous going back out there," 20-year-old Jacob Moan said after visiting the Inland Empire Job Corps Center. "I got permission to go back with my family in Los Angeles. The thing is my whole family is gang-related except me, and I didn't want to deal with that." Moan is one of the hundreds of Job Corps students left in limbo. He has until Thursday to find another place to live. "I'll be in a motel for about two weeks until a bed opens up at the shelter," he said. "I don't know where I'm gonna go. It sucks." Dominik Rodriguez just graduated from the certified medical assistant program, but now wonders how he'll actually land a job and get money for his son. "Society just like gave up for people in my situation," he said. "It hurts." Last Thursday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced it would suspend operations at its 99 Job Corps centers due to budget constraints. The federally funded centers provide housing, job training and careers for students 16 to 24 years old. "Job Corps was created to help young adults build a pathway to a better life through education, training, and community," Secretary Lori Chavez-Deremer stated. "However, a startling number of serious incident reports and our in-depth fiscal analysis reveal the program is no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve." According to the Job Corps transparency report from 2023, the program had an average of 38.6%. The total number of serious incident reports at centers was 14,913. On average, one student costs the federal government more than $80,000 a year. "The transparency report that was released was generated by someone from DOGE, who doesn't know the program, who used statistics from 2023, which were statistics that were coming out of the pandemic," said Luis Ramirez, director of the Long Beach center. "We had just over 30% enrollment at the time." Ramirez added that the center went from helping 257 students to 37, all of whom have no place to go. "They're asking if they can come home and the situations are not possible for these students and parents," Ramirez said. "The students that did leave, we're hearing they are reaching out to community services and are struggling." Ramirez is one of the 140 staff members who will be laid off in Long Beach. "When you walk through our center, we're changing lives every day," Ramirez said.
CNET
an hour ago
- CNET
Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for June 4
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today's Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Mini Crossword stumped me right away, with 1-Across. But the other answers filled in smoothly, so that one became obvious eventually. Need some help with today's Mini Crossword? Read on. And if you could use some hints and guidance for daily solving, check out our Mini Crossword tips. The Mini Crossword is just one of many games in the Times' games collection. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands answers, you can visit CNET's NYT puzzle hints page. Read more: Tips and Tricks for Solving The New York Times Mini Crossword Let's get at those Mini Crossword clues and answers. The completed NYT Mini Crossword puzzle for June 4, 2025 NYT/Screenshot by CNET Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: Nickname that drops "-uel" Answer: SAM 4A clue: Paleontologist's discovery Answer: BONE 5A clue: Like San Francisco during the summer Answer: FOGGY 6A clue: "Bald" bird Answer: EAGLE 7A clue: Clothes tumbler Answer: DRYER Mini down clues and answers 1D clue: Damp Answer: SOGGY 2D clue: Consideration for a selfie taker Answer: ANGLE 3D clue: Sweet variety of lemon Answer: MEYER 4D clue: Animal hunted by the stranded kids in "Lord of the Flies" Answer: BOAR 5D clue: Org. for Jerome Powell, with "the" Answer: FED How to play more Mini Crosswords The New York Times Games section offers a large number of online games, but only some of them are free for all to play. You can play the current day's Mini Crossword for free, but you'll need a subscription to the Times Games section to play older puzzles from the archives.
