Rapper and record producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been sued by a model who said he fathered an unborn child with her and then used an associate to pressure her to have an abortion.
Amid ongoing allegations of sexual misconduct against the rapper, an unnamed woman has said that one of Combs’ associates told her to have an abortion after she became pregnant with his child. The woman said that the rapper drugged and assaulted her over a four-year period between 2020 and 2024, and that she became pregnant as a result of one of these encounters before suffering a miscarriage.
She said that Combs’ staff used “coercive and harassing language” to force her to see the rapper. According to reports, Combs forced her to take drugs and sexually assaulted her whilst she was unconscious. On one occasion, which she alleges took place in July 2022, the woman blacked out after being forced to take ketamine. After learning she had become pregnant, one of Combs’ associates tried to pressure her into having an abortion.
Combs accused of multiple crimes
Combs is not the first celebrity to be accused of putting pressure on a partner to have an abortion. In 2021, RnB singer R. Kelly allegedly pressured an underage girl into having an abortion she did not want. After allegedly grooming the girl from the age of 17, she found she was pregnant with his child in 2017, and Kelly ordered her to have an abortion against her wishes.
In 2023, popstar Britney Spears revealed that she became pregnant while dating fellow popstar Justin Timberlake and described her subsequent abortion as “one of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”.
Spears revealed that while she was happy to be a mother, Timberlake wanted her to have an abortion.
“Justin definitely wasn’t happy about the pregnancy. He said we weren’t ready to have a baby in our lives, that we were way too young”.
“If it had been left up to me alone, I never would have done it. And yet Justin was so sure that he didn’t want to be a father”.
“To this day, it’s one of the most agonising things I have ever experienced in my life”.
A 2022 Savanta ComRes poll commissioned by the BBC revealed that 15% of women experienced “pressure to terminate a pregnancy” when they did not want to and 5% of women experienced “physical violence with intention to force a miscarriage/end a pregnancy”.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said “Combs’ alleged actions are horrendous and the accusations of pressure to abort his own baby are especially saddening”.
“There are sadly too many stories of women being pressured into having an abortion. It highlights the role men have in putting pressure on women to have abortions they don’t want to have”.
