Aaron Hall, an R&B singer who was part of the group Guy, was named as a defendant in a complaint filed against Combs last November in the New York Supreme Court ahead of the expiration date for New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provided a one-year window in which people could bring cases of sexual assault outside the typical statute of limitations.
The plaintiff, named Liza Gardner, accuses Combs and Hall of sexually assaulting her and a friend in Hall’s apartment after a music-industry event hosted by MCA Records in 1990 when she was 16 years old. She says that Combs “coerced” her into having sex with him and that afterward, “Hall barged into the room, pinned her down, and forced” her to have sex with him too.
The plaintiff also alleges that Combs found her at her home and choked her until she passed out; he was worried his girlfriend would find out about the incident, the complaint says.
In one YouTube video cited in the complaint, Hall says in an interview that “Puffy” — what Combs was known as in the 1990s — had seen him have sex.
Hall couldn’t be reached for comment. His lawyer wasn’t yet identified in court documents as of April 8.