Posted on December 17, 2024

Anna Kane, Diddy Accuser Who Says He Assaulted Her as a Teen in Lawsuit, Reveals Identity

Tomas Kassahun, Blavity, December 7, 2024

Anna Kane, the woman who anonymously filed a sexual assault lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2023, has now revealed her identity. As Kane, the ex-wife of Edmonton Oilers player Evander Kane, filed her amended complaint in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Friday, the court ruled that she must use her real name to move forward.

“I had hoped to use a pseudonym in pursuing justice for what happened to me as a teenager,” Kane told People. “Defendants’ demand that I use my name was an attempt to intimidate me, but I am not intimidated. I am prepared to proceed and hold accountable those who have harmed me.”

In her lawsuit, Kane named Combs and former Bad Boy CEO Harve Pierre, as well as another unknown associate. According to US Magazine, Kane said she was sex-trafficked and gang-raped by the group in 2008. Kane’s lawyer, Douglas H. Wigdor, said in 2023 that “Defendants preyed on a vulnerable high school teenager as part of a sex trafficking scheme that involved plying her with drugs and alcohol.”

Wigdor added that Kane was transported “by private jet to New York City where she was gang raped by the three individual defendants at Mr. Combs’ studio.”

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According to the lawsuit, Pierre first met Kane at a Detroit-area lounge. He then persuaded her to go with him and another person to New Jersey, per the complaint. That’s when the group arrived at Combs’ house, per the lawsuit, and Kane was allegedly assaulted. {snip}

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