Diddy spiked my drink – it felt like I had 50 valium… he wanted me to leave with him but I feared I'd be raped
Belen Ronda Campesino, 45, says she felt so out of it after encountering the now disgraced hip-hip mogul at the club she worked at, that it felt like she had taken '50 Valium tablets'.
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Former gogo dancer Belen Ronda Campesino believes she had a narrow escape from the clutches of Sean 'Diddy' Combs - claiming he spiked her drink and made sexual advances
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The beautician claims Combs, 55, tried to drag her to a house party where she fears she might have been raped
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Belen worked as a dancer at Ibiza club DC-10
The beautician claims Combs, 55, then tried to drag her to a house party where she fears she might have been raped.
Her story comes after Grammy-winning US rapper Combs was convicted on Wednesday of prostitution charges in his sex-crimes trial in New York.
He was found not guilty of the more serious crimes of racketeering and sex-trafficking but could still face 20 years in prison.
Belen says details from the star's trial — including claims he made two ex-girlfriends have sex with male escorts at drug-fuelled parties referred to as 'freak-offs' — had turned her stomach, made her heart race and given her 'severe anxiety'.
She adds: 'It makes me furious to hear during his trial what he has done to women.
He made sexual advances on me, telling me that he liked me a lot.
Belen Ronda Campesino
'I don't really follow the news but when I saw some pictures of this guy because of his trial I got really nervous.
'I had a similar experience with him to everything that has been coming out now.'
Belen says she encountered Combs in 2006 around the DJ booth at the DC-10 club where she worked.
She recalls: 'It looked like he had taken a lot of drugs, his jaw was totally out of joint.
'He was with four very large bodyguards.
Diddy's 'phantom fixer' breaks her cover after rapper cleared of racketeering
'He made sexual advances on me, telling me that he liked me a lot.'
Belen, who lives in Spain, says things had begun to go south, when Combs bought her a drink.
She adds: 'I saw that when he went to put the wad of cash away he took out a bag with a white powder in it, which I thought was cocaine.
'But he started to do something weird in his pocket and it really bothered me.
'I turned around and was telling a friend, but then I stupidly drank the juice.
'About 10 or 15 minutes later I started feeling dizzy and sleepy and I was sweating heavily.
'I didn't understand what was going on.'
She reveals that she had tried to escape to the VIP area, but he followed her there and tried to get her to a party at his house.
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Belen and Combs at Ibiza club DC-10 in 2006
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Belen says Combs 'looked like he had taken a lot of drugs'
She says: 'I told him I didn't want to go, that I was not feeling well and needed to go home.
'He squeezed my arm and was pulling on my hand.
'That's when I felt sure they had put something in my drink.
'My friend really wanted to go to the party but I told her we might be raped if we went.'
'Dizzy and sleepy'
She says Combs tried to stop her leaving, but she ran to the bathroom and left the club.
She reveals: 'The next day I slept the whole day.
'People were calling me and ringing my bell at home but I didn't hear anything.
'It was like I had taken 50 Valium tablets.
'Now I realise I had a very lucky escape.'
A party fixer exclusively told The Sun on Sunday last year how Ibiza clubs such as DC-10, Space and Amnesia were Combs' stomping grounds for years.
After the verdicts were read out on Wednesday at his trial, Combs dropped to his knees and made a praying gesture.
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Combs gets into the party vibe at the club
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Belen met Combs around the DJ booth at the DC-10 club
But he was denied bail, remains in jail and is expected to be sentenced over his prostitution conviction on October 3.
But due to sentencing guidelines, he is likely to serve less than five years in prison.
A lawyer representing more than 100 alleged victims in civil cases against Combs vowed they would fight on despite the sex-trafficking and racketeering not-guilty verdicts.
Tony Buzbee said: 'Diddy dodged a big bullet today.
'But that doesn't end the saga.'
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Combs made a praying gesture in court
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