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Dawn Richard’s lawyer Lisa Bloom has made statements suggesting her client might be one of the anonymous victims included in Diddy‘s sex trafficking case.
Speaking to TalkTV in an interview published to X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday (October 17), Lisa Bloom identified herself as the attorney representing Richards in the civil lawsuit which she filed against her former Diddy-Dirty Money boss and groupmate in September.
Bloom first linked the civil suit to the federal racketeering and sex trafficking indictment filed against Diddy (born Sean Combs) while comparing Richard’s civil suit to the government’s accusations.
“The federal criminal case came after ours, but it was strikingly similar,” she started. “Many of the same allegations that women were victimized, that they were terrorized, that they weren’t even paid properly when they worked for him and made music with him.”
She continued: “In our case and in the federal criminal case, we’re not just against Sean Combs but against a large number of people who are accused of being his enablers. Because we know from history: people liked Jeffrey Epstein, I represented 11 of his victims; these guys don’t just do this by themselves. They have to have a large number of people who are complicit in order to have an operation this big and to have this many accusers.”
Asked by the interviewer if she thought it was unusual that Combs was denied bail, Bloom made yet another connection between her client and the federal case against the disgraced Bad Boy mogul.
“That is very unusual and here’s why, and it has to do with my case: because the prosecutors say he was tampering with witnesses before he was sent to jail,” Bloom explained. “In my case, there’s a woman, only one, who came out publicly after we filed our complaint, and basically attacked my client and said she was a liar.
“Well it turns out, the prosecutors say, that there were over 100 phone messages between Sean Combs and this witness right after the filing of our complaint until a couple of days later, when she came out with her statement calling my client a liar. And then those calls stopped.”
Bloom added: “So the implication is very clear: that he was reaching out to her, I don’t know if he offered her something or if he scared her or what happened; but that he’s tampering with witnesses. And the judge essentially said he needs to be behind bars because we can’t have witnesses tampered with.”
While she was careful not to name the woman who spoke out against Dawn Richards, her recounting of the situation seems to point to Kalenna Harper, the third member of Diddy-Dirty Money, who addressed Richards’ lawsuit just two days after it was filed.
Harper issued a statement on her Instagram Story on Friday (September 13) regarding Richard’s suit, which mentions Harper numerous times and recounts events at which she was allegedly present, including a meeting at Diddy’s home where, according to the suit, he choked Cassie and threw a “scalding hot pan of eggs” at her.
The singer’s statement said of the suit that, “[W]hile I was present in some of the professional settings mentioned, many of allegations and incidents described in this suit are not representative of my experiences, and some do not align with my own truth.”
Elsewhere in the statement, she wrote: “While I fully respect Dawn’s right to recount her experiences, I want to emphasize that her account reflects her personal perspective and should not be interpreted as a universal truth applicable to everyone involved.”
Regarding herself and her husband/manager Tony Vick, Kaleena Harper added: “We were not involved in, nor were we aware of, any behavior that could be considered abusive or unlawful.”
Dawn Richard’s suit was filed on September 10. It contains accusations of verbal abuse, assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress against Diddy between 2004 and 2011, during which time Richard was signed to Bad Boy as a member of the group Danity Kane and later Diddy-Dirty Money.
