Paras Griffin/Getty Images
On May 28, Rolling Stone published an investigation into Combs after interviewing his former friends, colleagues, and artists at his label, Bad Boy Records. The report featured new allegations against Combs, but he has not been sued in relation to these alleged incidents.
Three unnamed women who claimed they attended Howard University with Combs said they witnessed him assaulting a woman on campus.
The mother and two close friends of Shakir Stewart, a music executive who died in 2008, told Rolling Stone that Combs broke a chair over Stewart’s head in 2000. They said Combs attacked him because Stewart tried to date Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Kim Porter.
Kirk Burrowes, the former president of Bad Boy Records, and Felicia Newsome, the first manager of Bad Boy’s recording studio, claimed that Combs attacked an unnamed woman inside the label’s offices in 1994 and they had to pull the rapper off her.
Another woman, who went by the pseudonym of Anna, told Rolling Stone that Combs tried to solicit her for sex while she was working as a freelance graphic designer for Bad Boy Records in 2001.
Davis, Combs’ attorney, told Rolling Stone in a statement that the rapper refused to respond to the new allegations.
“Mr. Combs cannot comment on settled litigation, will not comment on pending litigation, and cannot address every allegation picked up by the press from any source, no matter how unreliable,” Davis said. “We are aware that the proper authorities are conducting a thorough investigation and therefore have confidence any important issues will be addressed in the proper forum, where the rules distinguish facts from fiction.”
Representatives for Combs did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.