Sean 'Diddy' Combs accusers detail ongoing pattern of abuse in new Rolling Stone report

As Sean "Diddy" Combs faces an increasingly apocalyptic set of legal challenges, a new Rolling Stone investigation is shedding further light on the music mogul's alleged pattern of abuse and sexual depravity.

In a sprawling article detailing allegations from already-public legal filings as well as previously unheard accounts from former partners and employees, Rolling Stone's reporting paints a picture of a man who, even after attempting to revise his "Bad Boy" image, was allegedly carrying a cycle of manipulation, silencing and abuse.

Combs has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and his legal team has framed both the civil and the federal suits as invasions of privacy and attempts to capitalize on his money and fame.

Two hotel employees, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, told the outlet that the night of Combs' arrest in New York at the Park Hyatt, a woman was waiting for him in the room upstairs.

A former girlfriend, who had been on and off with combs for four years told Rolling Stone has was also trying to convince her to travel to New York in the lead-up to his arrest. Given a pseudonym for the article, the woman filed a lawsuit against Combs in September as a Jane Doe, alleging he had sex with her without her consent.

The rapper was apprehended by federal agents in a hotel lobby in September over charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution.

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Months before, a video of Combs shoving, kicking, and dragging ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura had been made public by CNN, and the music mogul had been on the defense since with his legal team asserting he had transformed into a new man after a stint in rehab.

A sex worker, who claims he participated in Combs' alleged "freak offs" − drug-fueled sex romps with dubious levels of consent − cast doubt on the idea of a "different" Diddy, however.

"He’s not reformed. He just wanted to get out of jail. He’s the same person," sex worker Nathan (a pseudonym), told Rolling Stone.

Nathan also pointed to the drugs as a key factor in the alleged pattern of bad behavior. "He's a sex addict," he claimed to the magazine. "He's an obsessive drug addict. That's a major part of his problem.

"I used to think it was insane — this guy would sniff things and black out for 30 minutes," he alleged. "He'd sniff a lot of ketamine and kind of black out in the middle."

In the aftermath of the Cassie footage, Combs posted a since-deleted apology video in which he called the encounter "rock bottom" and argued he was "committed to being a better man."

Kat Pasion, another ex-girlfriend of Combs spoke both to Rolling Stone and to documentary filmmakers for the project "The Fall of Diddy," made in partnership with the magazine.

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"When I watched that (apology) video, I knew he was lying because I knew what I experienced in 2021 — five years later," Pasion said in the documentary.

The documentary also includes an interview with Combs' former assistant Phil Pines, who also alleges Combs sexually harassed him. Pines alleged both in the project and in an accompanying lawsuit that he was tasked with supplying the "freak offs" or "Wild King Nights" with drugs and sex toys and with cleaning up the aftermath.

"It's manipulation at its finest; it's grooming," Pines told Rolling Stone. "He has that ability to make you feel like his world comes first. Even if it's at your expense, his needs and his life (come) before yours."

Both ex-girlfriends who spoke to Rolling Stone described a man with two markedly different sides.

"He was very sweet. We talked about real-life stuff, about my childhood and his childhood," the unnamed ex-girlfriend told the outlet, adding that it became clear over time there was a darker version lurking beneath. "He would always take it to a point that I was fearful of my life," she said.

"The person that I was so in love with, that I cared about like family — I'm finding out every single day that this person is a monster," she said. "I was making up excuses for (him) drugging and (sexually assaulting) me…. I'm finding out that maybe I didn't know this person and I was just manipulated."

Using coercive language and sending employees to her home, the woman alleges Combs began pressuring her to be at his beck and call and to add other people into their sex life.

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"I feel like the devil that would come out of him was during these turn-up times," she said of drug-fueled sexual encounters.

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Pasion, who first met Combs in 2013 but did not connect romantically until five years later, described an encounter that rang alarm bells for her. In 2019, as the two vacationed in the Bahamas, Pasion told Rolling Stone they watched some of "Surviving R. Kelly" − a documentary exploring Kelly's alleged sex trafficking − together.

"There's a little bit of R. Kelly in all of us," Combs said to her, Pasion told Rolling Stone. "I remember being like, 'There is NOT a little bit of R. Kelly in all of us.'"

From there the relationship soured, as Pasion alleged he assaulted her in 2021 and when she cut off contact he threatened to have her deported to Canada.

"That's the pattern of his behavior that he’s been doing for decades,” she said in the docuseries. "He uses his resources and uses what he can do for you and thinks that that can Band-Aid and solve the horrible things he does to people."

The article also details the events of Combs' 2022 holiday vacation in the Caribbean during which he was filming a reality show centered around his family life for Hulu called "Diddy+7." The show never aired and production has since ceased.

In a lawsuit filed in April, yacht stewardess Grace O'Marcaigh, painted a different picture, alleging the vacation was in fact a "hedonistic" nightmare complete with sex workers, laced drinks and crying women. O'Marcaigh alleges she was drugged by Combs' oldest son Christian, who she accused of taking his clothes off and attempting to force her to perform oral sex.

One crew member, speaking to Rolling Stone anonymously, confirmed O'Marcaigh's account and commented on the strangeness of the documentary being filmed at the same time.

"He would do certain things for the video cameras and then switch into a different person," they told the outlet. "He was high on some drug. We don't know what it was, but his switching of personality was so unnatural."

Combs, who is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, will head to trial later this year and is expected to argue that many of the sexual encounters detailed were consensual.

As lawsuits have continued to stack up, the music mogul has maintained his innocence and rallied his family behind him as he prepares for the legal fight of a lifetime.

"I know he's gonna fight until the end, and it's expected because freedom is what he wants," Pines told Rolling Stone. "But I think true freedom comes with the truth and taking some accountability."

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Diddy investigation: Rolling Stone interviews allege more abuse