Model Crystal McKinney, who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in a complaint filed in May 2024, also filed a complai
Model Crystal McKinney, who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting her in a complaint filed in May 2024, also filed a complaint against disgraced film producer and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein.
The complaint, which is unrelated to Combs’s trial and was originally filed in February 2025, then amended in tardy May, alleges that Weinstein raped McKinney and a friend in a Manhattan hotel room in 2003.
According to the complaint, which was obtained by People, McKinney claims to have received a call from an unnamed modeling-company executive who told her that he had arranged a business meeting between her and Weinstein in a West Village nightspot that evening. McKinney says she believed he might “consider her for an acting role.”
She and one of her roommates arrived and were shown to the movie mogul’s table, according to the complaint. Weinstein allegedly told the pair that he wanted to discuss potential acting roles with them somewhere quieter, and asked them to come to his hotel. There, the complaint reads, he allegedly ordered a raft of top-shelf alcohol, then allegedly grabbed her breasts. When she and her friend took refuge in the bathroom, the complaint says, Weinstein allegedly forced his way into the room, demanding that they strip before exposing himself and entering the bathtub. McKinney and her friend obeyed out of fear, the complaint says. She claims that Weinstein forced the women to perform sexual acts on each other in the tub, then raped them both on the hotel room’s bed.
In response to Vanity Fair’s request for comment, Weinstein attorney Imran H. Ansari wrote, “Harvey Weinstein categorically denies the outlandish and fantastical claims made against him by Crystal McKinney in her complaint. Made late in time and suspiciously on the heels of her complaint against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Mr. Weinstein is ready to refute and defend against the salacious claims, that are believed to have been made with an opportunistic motive.”
Vanity Fair has also reached out to McKinney’s lawyer for comment.
Weinstein has already been convicted of various sex crimes in New York and California. He is currently on trial in New York again because an appeals court overturned his conviction, ruling that his previous trial was tainted by prejudicial testimony. In the current case, he is accused of raping Jessica Mann and forcing oral sex on two other women, separately, in 2006. (Weinstein has denied all accusations and has pleaded not guilty to the current charges.)
In January, Weinstein begged a New York judge to move up the date of his retrial, claiming that he was in destitute health. He is serving a prison sentence at Rikers Island due to his 2022 convictions for sex crimes in California.
Combs, meanwhile, is currently being prosecuted in New York on multiple earnest charges, including sex trafficking, kidnapping, violence, transportation for prostitution, and bribery—all under the heading of “criminal enterprise.” The prosecution accuses him of having orchestrated a structured network of sexual exploitation over two decades. He faces a possible life sentence. He has pleaded not guilty.
Original story in VF France.
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