Where Is Joi Dickerson-Neal Now? All About Her Life After Accusing Diddy of Assault By Emily Blackwood

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In November 2023, Joi Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, claiming he sexually assaulted her
The alleged incident occurred while they were on a date in 1991, though Combs has denied the allegations
She claimed he not only drugged and raped her, but also recorded the assault and shared it with friends

When Sean “Diddy” Combs was accused of rape, sex trafficking and domestic violence in a civil lawsuit filed by his ex, Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, Joi Dickerson-Neal decided it was time that she shared her story too.

“I felt very sad for her, but it was also validation to know I’m not the only one,” she said in Netflix’s 2025 docuseries Sean Combs: The Reckoning. “I am not the only one. I was no longer going to be embarrassed. I’m going to stand up.”

Dickerson-Neal filed a lawsuit against Combs in November 2023, just days after Ventura, whose claims Combs denied, settled her suit. She accused him of drugging and raping her in 1991, while she was a student at Syracuse University. The “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down” rapper denied the allegations.

Since then, 78 total sexual assault lawsuits have been filed against Combs, The Washington Post reported in July 2025. A number of the accusers, both men and women, allege they were drugged and forcibly assaulted by the rapper or his associates, with some saying they were as young as 13 when it happened. Combs denied all the allegations.

Though Dickerson-Neal’s case is still pending as of December 2025, Combs was found guilty of two unrelated counts of transportation to engage in prostitution and acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering in July. He was sentenced to four years behind bars in October 2025.

So where is Joi Dickerson-Neal now? Here’s everything to know about her life after accusing Sean “Diddy” Combs of assault.

Dickerson-Neal met Diddy in 1989

According to Dickerson-Neal, she and Combs met around 1989 while she was attending school at Syracuse University and working as a music video promoter. Because the rapper was moonlighting as a party promoter, they occasionally ran in the same circles.

One night, Dickerson-Neal said she attended one of Combs’ parties and, at the end of the evening, was helping him clean up mud that guests had tracked inside. He asked her to appear in a music video with him for “Straight from the Soul” by Finesse & Synquis. She agreed and rode with him to film.

“The whole premise was for me to jump out the car and go with these girls and get away from the pimp guy,” Dickerson-Neal recalled in The Reckoning.

She claimed he sexually assaulted her in 1991

Joi Dickerson-Neal in Sean Combs: The Reckoning

In her 2023 lawsuit, Dickerson-Neal alleged that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her while they were on a date. She said she left her drink at the table with the rapper and soon “couldn’t independently stand or walk,” per the complaint.

Dickerson-Neal also claimed in her complaint that Combs filmed the alleged assault, which she found out when “a male friend revealed to her that he had viewed the ‘sex tape’ along with other men.” She further alleged in The Reckoning that the friend’s comment was how she learned about the assault and that people told her Combs played the tape on a large-screen TV at his parties.

Though she claimed she attempted to get help after the assault, she said people were reluctant to risk their invitations to his parties. Dickerson-Neal alleged that after avoiding Combs for a while, she eventually confronted him about the assault and the tape.

“He got on his knees and swore he did not do this thing to me,” she said in The Reckoning. “That was the very last time I talked to him.”

She filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023

Sean 'Diddy' Combs at Invest Fest in 2023

Dickerson-Neal sued Combs in November 2023 under the New York State Adult Survivors Act, which created a one-year period that allowed adult sexual assault survivors to file a lawsuit after the statute of limitations expired. The act itself expired in December 2023, per Forbes.

In her suit, she alleged that the assault resulted in a decline in her mental health and that she eventually dropped out of college because of it.

“This thing was incredibly devastating to my family,” she said in The Reckoning. “We don’t have money. The thing that we had was our pride. We carried ourselves well. We were pretty. We were intelligent. This is the basis of what I had. Self-respect.”

She was interviewed for Sean Combs: The Reckoning

The Reckoning. (L to R) Christopher Wallace, The Notorious B.I.G. and Sean Combs.

Dickerson-Neal was one of the many people in Combs’ orbit interviewed for the 50 Cent-produced four-part docuseries. In it, she claimed to filmmakers that her mother had allegedly written a letter to Combs’ parents in 1992 detailing how she learned of the assault after her daughter woke up screaming in the middle of the night.