A staggering $100 million defamation lawsuit that was filed against Sean Combs ‘ accuser Thalia Graves by her alleged rapist was dismissed Monday, with a U.S. District Judge ruling the suit contained several “patently frivolous claims.”
Thalia Graves brought her suit against Combs and ex-bodyguard Joseph Sherman in September 2024, days after the hip-hop mogul was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering . She claimed that Combs and Sherman drugged her, bound her wrists, and raped her at Combs’ recording studio Daddy’s House in 2001. She also said they recorded the alleged rape, and later shared it and sold it as pornography.
Several weeks after Graves filed her suit, Sherman sued Graves and her attorney, Gloria Allred, for defamation, denying that he was the ma