Sean 'Diddy' Combs accuser speaks out for first time: 'I felt powerless'

An accuser in the sprawling case against Sean "Diddy" Combs is speaking out publicly for the first time.

The man, known only as John Doe, opted to remain anonymous and spoke to CNN from a darkened room in his New Jersey home. One of hundreds of accusers, he alleges that Diddy drugged and assaulted him in the early 2000s at one of the music mogul's famed "white parties."

In a lawsuit filed earlier this year, lawyers for the accuser allege he was hired to work as security for Combs' 2006 party. After the rapper offered him a few drinks, he began to notice something was off.

"It wasn't until the second drink, and it was already too late, that I realized that there was something wrong with the drinks," the man told CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister in the interview Tuesday.

"It was just an amazing level of incapacitation that I had never experienced before and I felt powerless," he said.

The complaint then alleges Diddy pushed the accuser into a car, held him down and sodomized him.

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"I was screaming, I was telling him to stop. It was incredibly painful, and he was acting like it was nothing. And he seemed to be disconnected from it, but it was abusive beyond belief," he told CNN.

There were several inconsistencies in the story the accuser relayed to CNN and the one told in the civil complaint. The lawsuit claims the party took place in 2006 and that the accuser has never been married, in part due to the distress of the assault. In the interview, the man revealed the incident had taken place in 2007 and had left him so ashamed he had kept it a secret from his then-wife.

In response to CNN pointing out the discrepancies, lawyers for the accuser amended the complaint and confirmed mistakes were made in the original filing in the rush to get it to court.

Doe's story represents one small dot in a constellation of legal challenges faced by Combs, who is now awaiting trial in federal prison. The music mogul is accused of sex trafficking and racketeering in a wide-ranging system of abuse that allegedly spanned decades.

Over the weekend, fellow rap icon Jay-Z was ensnared in the case when one of the complaints against Combs was amended to reveal the Roc Nation founder as a previously unnamed celebrity accused of assaulting a victim alongside Diddy.

Jay-Z has vehemently denied the claim and taken his own legal action to dismiss the suit.

"My wife and I will have to sit our children down, one of whom is at the age where her friends will surely see the press and ask questions about the nature of these claims, and explain the cruelty and greed of people," the rapper, who is married to singer Beyoncé, wrote in a statement at the time.

The rapper also accused the lawyer in the case, Tony Buzzbee, of being an "ambulance chaser." Buzzbee represents several of Diddy's alleged victims, including the one who spoke to CNN, and is known to take on high-profile cases.

After Diddy's indictment, Buzzbee held a news conference in October in which he solicited clients with a 1-800 number ? urging them to call if they wanted to come forward. He also alluded to other powerful people in Diddy's orbit who should be on watch.

"The day will come when we will name names other than Sean Combs," Buzzbee said at the conference. "The names that we're going to name, assuming our investigators confirm and corroborate what we’ve been told, are names that will shock you."

While the accuser who came forward on CNN was allowed to remain anonymous, both on camera and in court filings, the same may not be true for all alleged victims.

Earlier this month a judge ruled that one of Diddy's accusers, who filed a suit against the rapper and the former president of Bad Boy Records Harve Pierre, alleging a gang rape in 2003, must come forward.

The plaintiff's real name was revealed to be Anna Kane. Kane alleges she was 17 at the time of the assault, and lured to Combs' recording studio on a private jet by Pierre.

"I had hoped to use a pseudonym in pursuing justice for what happened to me as a teenager. Defendants' demand that I use my name was an attempt to intimidate me, but I am not intimidated. I am prepared to proceed and hold accountable those who have harmed me," Doug Wigdor, Kane's lawyer, shared as a statement on her behalf with USA TODAY Friday.

Contributing: KiMi Robinson

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