Comedian Druski and football wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. have been named in an amended “gang rape” lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
In the lawsuit, initially filed in October, Ashley Parham accused Combs, 55, of sexual assault and battery, abuse, false imprisonment and kidnapping. The amended complaint, filed Friday, names Druski (born Drew Desbordes), Beckham, blogger Jacquelyn “Jaguar” Wright, Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, and eight others as co-defendants.
Parham claimed to have virtually met Combs in February 2018 when she met a man – now identified as Shane Pearce – at a bar who started a FaceTime call with the Bad Boy Records founder. She goes on to allege that after she claimed in the call that Combs had a hand in rapper Tupac Shakur’s 1996 killing, Pearce “set her up” to be assaulted by Combs the following month. The alleged assault took place in the Pearce apartment in Orinda, California — a city outside of Oakland — on March 23, 2018, she said.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sued by woman claiming he ‘violently gang raped’ her in 2018
During the alleged assault, Parham claims Druski, previously identified as John Doe, was instructed to assault her by Combs. She alleged the internet personality “doused” her in lubricant and jumped on top of her, “knocking the wind out” of her “due to his enormous size.” She claims Combs masturbated while recording the assault. She also accuses Pearce and Beckham of taking turns assaulting her during the ordeal.
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Druski, Odell Beckham Jr., Diddy respond to allegations: ‘Truly outlandish’
In a statement shared to social media and echoed by his reps to USA TODAY, Druski, 30, called the claim false.
“This allegation is a fabricated lie,” he wrote on X Sunday. “I wasn’t a public figure in 2018 — I was broke living with my mom without any connections to the entertainment industry at the time of this allegation, so the inclusion of my name is truly outlandish.”
He continued: “My heart breaks for actual victims of abuse, but I’m fully confident that the evidence will expose this falsehood and the individuals who are maliciously trying to game the legal system to pedal false narratives.”
Beckham, 32, replied to Druski’s post: “Boy I’ll tell u what. This world makes absolutely no sense. I am covered by God. He will prevail. … That name will be cleared. (It’s) stupid.”
USA TODAY has reached out to Beckham’s reps for comment.
“This new complaint – brought by an attorney who has already been sued for defaming Mr. Combs – demonstrates the depraved lengths plaintiffs will travel to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday,” said Combs’ team, who is suing one of the lawyers who filed Parham’s lawsuit, in a statement to USA TODAY Monday. “Mr. Combs was nowhere near Orinda, California on the day Ms. Parham claims she was assaulted there.”
Parham claims after the assault, in an effort to convince her not to report the incident, a person identified as “Big Homie CC” showed her footage on his phone of her sister’s home and that Combs called his mother, Janice, 84, who yelled at Parham to “not hurt her son” despite Parham telling the woman that she was “violently raped.” Janice Combs seemed unfazed, according to the lawsuit.
Police call Ashley Parham’s Diddy lawsuit claims ‘unfounded’
Parham then describes an argument that ensued between Big Homie CC and Combs after the Revolt TV founder allegedly said “he had gotten off from bigger crimes than this and referred to Tupac again,” with the other man “asking (Combs) to repeat what he said.”
Parham claims CC pulled a gun, and that she tried to grab it, but it went off. She alleges Combs then ran off, with Parham chasing after him with a knife she previously acquired after her assault, leading to a fight in which Parham grazed Combs’ abdomen. She says she escaped, and after shots were fired in her direction, she took cover in a neighbor’s home, who called the police.
In a statement, the sheriff’s office said: “A report was taken on March 23, 2018. We take these cases seriously, and detectives thoroughly investigated the accusations. It was later determined the claims were unfounded.”
She claims she told the neighbor about the assault, but that the neighbor didn’t know who Combs was. She alleges that a man showed up at the home “posing” as an officer from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, who gave the neighbor an envelope that she assumes included money. However, she says the sheriff’s office took a police report that day and has “refused to release any information related to the complaint.”
Parham says in light of the alleged transaction, she returned to Pearce’s apartment for her belongings and, because she was “catatonic and in the state of shock,” decided to sleep at Pearce’s home at his urging. Once she woke up, she says he gave her the rest of her belongings, and she left. She says she went to the hospital, where she received a rape kit and X-rays. Her treatment team called Walnut Creek Police, she claims, and she says she gave a report but did not name Combs. She says she filed a report to the Orinda Police Department the following month, again not naming Combs.
Last July, Parham says she called the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office to amend her complaint amid mounting lawsuits against the embattled media mogul, but aside from a call back from a detective, she says she received no response.
Kristina Khorram, whom Combs previously described as “my right hand” at Combs Enterprises, is also among the co-defendants accused of assisting Combs’ “predatory sexual behavior and proclivities by setting up (Parham) to be sexually assaulted and raped by Defendant Diddy as well as assisting in covering up the crime thereafter.”
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline offers free, confidential, 24/7 support to survivors and their loved ones in English and Spanish at: 800.656.HOPE (4673) and Hotline.RAINN.org and en Español
Contributing: KiMi Robinson
