Harvey Weinstein sued for sexual assault by one of Diddy's accusers

Muri Assunção, New York Daily News on May 31, 2025

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NEW YORK — A woman who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2003 has also filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.

Crystal McKinney, a former fashion model and winner of MTV’s “Model Mission,” alleges the Miramax co-founder raped her and a friend in a Manhattan hotel room that same year.

In a new lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court on Friday, McKinney says the assault occurred after they met Weinstein at a nightclub, where she believed they’d be discussing movie opportunities, TMZ reported.

McKinney, who says she was unaware of Weinstein’s alleged predatory reputation at the time, brought her roommate — also an aspiring actress — to the meeting, which had been arranged by a modeling executive.

According to the suit, the club where they met Weinstein was noisy, so he suggested they head to his suite at the Ritz-Carlton in Battery Park where they’d be better able to hear each other.

That’s when Weinstein allegedly got the women drunk and forced them to have sex with each other in front of him before he raped them, the suit claims.

In a separate lawsuit filed in Manhattan Federal Court last May, McKinney said she met Diddy at a Men’s Fashion Week event at Cipriani Downtown when she was 22. At the dinner, Combs, then 33, plied her with alcohol and promised to use his connections to help further her career, so she accepted his invitation back to his Midtown studio, she said.

There, the hip-hop mogul allegedly gave her marijuana, which McKinney believes was laced with a narcotic, before physically forcing her to perform oral sex on him. According to the suit, she later lost consciousness and woke up in a taxi, eventually “realiz[ing] that she had been sexually assaulted by Combs.”

McKinney said the attack led her into “a tailspin of anxiety and depression,” including a suicide attempt in 2004. She said she didn’t report the assault out of fear of violence or retribution from Combs, but knew she had an “obligation to speak up” following Cassie Ventura’s bombshell lawsuit in late 2023.

The rapper, whose high-profile sex trafficking trial wrapped its third week on Friday, has denied any wrongdoing.

Weinstein is currently being retried on rape and sexual assault charges after his 2020 conviction was overturned by an appeals court. He has similarly denied McKinney’s claims.