A-List music manager reveals how close she came to being raped at Diddy yacht party

John Legend’s manager has revealed she was once almost attacked at one of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ parties.

Ty Stiklorius, 49, opened up about the ‘terrifying situation’ in an essay The New York Times titled: The music industry is toxic. After P. Diddy, we can clean it up.”

Stiklorius wrote that 27 years ago she was on a yacht in St. Barts at one of Diddy’s New York Eve parties when “a man who appeared to be an associate of the party’s host” led her into a bedroom and opened the door closed.

She said she still doesn’t remember how she convinced the man to let her go, but Diddy’s arrest for sex trafficking brought back the horrific memory.

“Maybe my nervous chatter: ‘My brother’s on this boat and he’s probably looking for me!’ – convinced him to unlock the bedroom door and let me go,” she wrote.

The music director said she still doesn’t remember how she convinced the man to let her go, but the horrific memory was brought back by Diddy’s arrest for sex trafficking. Diddy can be seen in Saint Tropez in 2007

Stiklorius said she did not know who the man was or what his connection, if any, was to Diddy.

She added that 20 years in the industry have shown her that her experience was “not an aberration” but a common occurrence in the industry.

Instead, Stiklorius added, “It was an indicator of a pervasive culture in the music industry that actively encouraged sexual misconduct and exploited the lives and bodies of those hoping to make it in the business.”

Furthermore, she said, “This toxic situation has been allowed to fester because power has been concentrated in the hands of kingmakers: wealthy, entitled, almost always male gatekeepers who control almost every door that leads to success and who can use it, without consequences.” of their power to abuse young women and young men.

“Too often, women have not been safe in recording studios, on tour buses, in green rooms or in offices. It’s not a bug in the music business; it is an important characteristic.’

Stiklorius wrote that twenty years in the industry showed her that her experience was “not an aberration,” but a common occurrence in the industry.

The music executive said she was ready to give up the industry until her old college friend, Legend, contacted her in 2005. She will be seen with Legend in 2023.

Stiklorius said that a few years later at a dinner party, a senior music manager slid his key card under the table to her as “an unsubtle invitation to his hotel room,” which she declined.

The music executive said she was ready to give up the industry until her old college friend, Legend, approached her in 2005.

Despite her bad experiences in the music industry, Stiklorius says Diddy’s arrest offers an opportunity to clean things up.

“We have an opportunity to turn the page on an archaic, sometimes predatory model of business in which it was all too common to ignore, protect, or elevate predators and their enablers,” she wrote.

Diddy, 54, is being held in a New York City jail after pleading not guilty to federal charges, including allegations that he coerced and abused women and silenced victims through blackmail and violence.

The mogul also faces more than a dozen lawsuits from men and women who say they were sexually assaulted by him.