The man who co-founded the Bad Boy Entertainment with Sean Combs in 1993, Kirk Burrowes, presented a new cause on Friday evening, accusing Combs of having created a highly toxic and psychologically manipulative work environment, characterized by serial sexual harassment, physical attacks and “forced submission to degrading sexual acts”.
In its 18 -page complaint, obtained by Rolling Stone USBurrowes claims that Combs subjected it to unwanted sexual advances, nudities, acts of sexual exhibitionism and sexual aggressions during the period in which they were launching the record label destined to become the home of Superstar such as Christopher Wallace, aka The Notorious Big, Faith Evans, Lil 'Kim, Craig Mack and Mase. Burrowes says that abusive behaviors are then degenerated in physical violence, blackmail, extortion and ostracism in the music sector.
Speaking with Rolling Stone US For an investigation into the alleged story of violence of Combs, published last May, Burrowes had already declared that the music magnate, now offending in New York, “never forgets a wrong”. “If he sees a thread pulled in a sweater, he will continue to pull,” he said.
According to the new cause intended by Burrowes, Combs would have frequently groped him in the grove and buttocks and forced to attend sexual acts with employees, interns, emerging artists and third parties in the offices of the Bad Boy Entertainment in Manhattan. Burrowes says that Combs would have summoned him with false pretexts through the office intercom, and then finding himself entering the room while Combs received oral sex or other sexual favors. According to the complaint, Burrowes believes that Combs orchestrated these meetings to bring down their resistance and impose his submission.
During a business trip in 1995, Combs would have organized a meeting in his hotel suite, and then accommodate Burrowes completely naked and «demand that [Burrowes, nda] He looked at him as he masturbated, “he reads in the complaint. Later, that same year, Combs would physically immobilized Burrowes in an apartment in Midtown, “preventing him from leaving him by subtracting his keys, blocking him on a bed and simulating a sexual relationship to ejaculars”, reports the legal document.
Burrowes states that abuse and intimidation reached culmination in 1996, when Combs would have raided in his office, brandishing a baseball bat, forcing him to sell his 25% share of the Bad Boy, “under the threat of serious physical consequences” (Burrowes was fired in 1997; in 2003, he filed a cause against the Combs for the accident with the bat. But his accusations were rejected because they fell in prescription).
Burrowes has filed its new cause by referring to the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, a New York law that entered into force in 2000 with an initial seven-year prescription term. An amendment from 2022 introduced a two -year retroactive window, allowing people to present civil cases even if their complaints had expired. This window is destined to close on 1 March 2025. During this reopening period numerous causes were presented against Combs, with over a dozen complaints deposited only last Friday.
The new cause of Burrowes, presented by the lawyer Tyrone Blackburn, comes after a separate legal action filed this week against Janice Combs, mother of Sean Combs, for her alleged role in the loss of the 25% share of the Bad Boy by Burrowes. According to the complaint filed on Friday, Sean Combs would have expressed him from the bad boy to punish him with his resistance to abuse, and then sabotaged his career. “In 2006, more sources informed the complaint that Combs had used its influence to make sure that no great record label or management agency assumes it, forcing it to economic instability”, reads the legal document.
Burrowes tells of being living in a “welfare hotel” in Midtown Manhattan between 2013 and 2014, when he would have randomly embarked in Combs on the street. According to his complaint, one of the associates of Combs would have threatened his life while the same Combs would drag him into a forced embrace and grabbed him the buttocks. “According to the information available, Combs would have orchestrated this meeting as an intimidating tactic to reaffirm its continuous domination and control over the ability of the sunshine to exist within the music industry and the public sphere”, reports the cause.
In an official declaration, the Combs legal team rejected the accusations of Burrowes. “This last cause intended by Kirk Burrowes, presented by no less that Tyrone Blackburn, is another frivolous attempt to reopen a case that has been repeatedly rejected by the courts in the last 30 years,” said lawyers. “Despite the repeated archives, Burrowes and Blackburn they insist in making the court waste time and resources, recurring accusations already rejected and now even involving the eighty -year -old mother of Mr. Combs.”
Combs, 55 years old, is currently located in a federal detention center in Brooklyn pending a process, scheduled for May, with accusations of criminal association aimed at racket and sexual traffic. According to an expanded incrimination filed last month, Combs would have forced at least three women to carry out commercial sexual acts dating back to 2004. The prosecutors claim that Combs was the head of a “criminal organization” also involved in the distribution of drugs, kidnappings and arsoned fires. If condemned for all charges, he risks life imprisonment.
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