Honk News (New York City, NY) — Kirk Burrowes, Bad Boy Entertainment’s co-founder and former president, is suing Sean “Diddy” Combs for a “deeply disturbing pattern” of sexual abuse, compulsion, violence, and intimidation spanning a decade.
Burrowes’ lawyer Tyrone Blackburn filed an 18-page complaint against his former New York business partner on Friday, Feb. 28, alleging years of “predatory” actions and a “toxic environment of coercion, fear and psychological manipulation,” according to court documents.
In the complaint, Combs, 55, is accused of “repeated sexual harassment, physical aggression and forced compliance with degrading sexual acts” including “unwanted sexual advances” like “nudity, sexual overtones, voyeurism and acts of exhibitionism,” some of which occurred during business meetings.
The complaint accuses the longstanding music entrepreneur of expanding the “campaign of control, resorting to physical violence, blackmail, career sabotage and financial extortion,” including “forced coercion” to give up 25% of Bad Boy Entertainment.
Burrowes sued Combs in 2003 for a 1996 incident, but the action was dismissed.
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Two days prior, Burrowes filed another lawsuit against Combs’ mother, Janice Combs, alleging she wrongfully acquired control of his 25% stake in Bad Boy after Combs threatened physical violence.
He claimed that Combs’ mother “knowingly participated in the fraudulent scheme to obtain 100% control” of Bad Boy Entertainment and “carefully maintained a facade of integrity, portraying herself as an innocent bystander while orchestrating plaintiff’s financial and professional downfall behind the scenes,” according to court documents obtained by PEOPLE.
Combs has rejected sexual misconduct charges from more than a dozen people, but the current lawsuit cites current York City’s Gender Motivated Violence Act.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to federal allegations of sex trafficking and prostitution transportation. The music mogul is in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center awaiting trial in May.
After Bad Boy’s 1990s development, Burrowes was its COO and general manager, according to the complaint. Between 1992 and 1994, Combs allegedly forced Burrowes to watch him perform “sexual acts with employees, interns, prospective artists and third parties at the Bad Boy Entertainment office, reinforcing his control through humiliation and intimidation.”
The complaint alleges that Combs summoned Burrowes “under false pretenses” via a company intercom to enter a room where he was “receiving oral sex or engaging in other lewd acts” to “psychologically break down Plaintiff’s resistance and establishing his submission.”
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He made “inappropriate and sexually suggestive remarks” about Burrowes’ body and claimed that his sexual activities were “part of the ‘culture’ of the entertainment industry and a requirement for success,” the complaint states.
The complaint alleges “physical coercion and forced submission” between 1995 and 1996.
Combs is again accused of “stormed” into Burrowes’ office with a baseball bat to force him to “sign over his 25% stake in Bad Boy Entertainment, Inc. or face violent repercussions.” Burrowes “signed away his ownership stake without receiving any financial compensation” in 1996, and Combs allegedly took “active measures to erase” his legacy at the company, the filing stated.
Combs was accused of “post-termination harassment and blacklisting,” Burrowes says, in 2022. He is accused of “personally contacting industry executives, warning them against working with Plaintiff and labeling him as untrustworthy, effectively cutting off his career prospects.”
The complaint also alleges that Combs’ security detail surrounded and threatened him in New York City in 2013 or 2014 before he grabbed his buttocks and pulled him “close to his body” to simulate a bearhug and at a Diana Ross birthday party in 2019.
Burrowes’ Feb. 28 complaint against Combs charges a “history and propensity for violence,” requesting a jury trial and “redress for the physical, emotional, and financial devastation inflicted upon him.”