In 2005, the parents of a 10-year-old boy from Los Angeles sought to help their son’s burgeoning career and flew with him to New York to meet people in the music industry.
Sean Combs told a consultant the family hired that he wanted to meet with the boy alone, according to a new civil lawsuit filed Monday in New York.
In a hotel room, the plaintiff performed several rap songs for Combs who told the boy, who is referred to as John Doe in the suit, that he could “make him a star,” the lawsuit said.
“Combs asked Plaintiff how badly he wanted to be a star, and what Plaintiff would do to get to be one. Plaintiff responded, as might any ten-year-old child, that he would ‘do anything,’” the lawsuit said.
At this point, according to the lawsuit, one of the other people present gave the boy a soda, which made him feel “a little funny.”