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\n\tFour months after testifying<\/a> at Sean Combs<\/a>\u2019 criminal trial in New York, celebrity stylist Deonte Nash has filed a lawsuit alleging that the music mogul trapped him in a \u201cdark world\u201d of repeated sexual battery, physical assault, stalking, and threats that turned his childhood dream of working in the entertainment industry into \u201ca nightmare.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn a complaint filed Wednesday in Los Angeles, Nash claims Combs pinched his nipples, groped his buttocks, grinded on his groin, and once forced his hand onto Combs\u2019 penis while Nash worked for Combs and his former girlfriend, Casandra \u201cCassie<\/a>\u201d Ventura between 2008 and 2018.<\/p>\n \n\tEchoing his testimony from the third week of Combs\u2019 New York trial, Nash says Combs also subjected him to violent physical assaults. He claims Combs became enraged and \u201cseverely strangled\u201d him in 2013 when he tried to stop Combs from beating Ventura bloody inside her apartment. Nash says when he tried to call the police, Combs intervened, causing him to \u201cimminently fear for his life.\u201d In another incident in 2013 or 2014, Combs allegedly drove to a set where Ventura was filming a music video and attacked Nash again, fuming over his discovery that Nash and Ventura had gone out to dinner the night before. Combs \u201cthrew [Nash] up onto the car and violently strangled him,\u201d the lawsuit says. (In his testimony, Nash told jurors he was smoking a cigarette when Combs appeared out of nowhere and \u201cstarted choking me out.\u201d)<\/p>\n \n\tNash claims threats, intimidation, and \u201cpsychological manipulation\u201d were pervasive during his tenure as well. He says once in 2014, Combs grabbed and slapped him in the back of his head as a frightened Ventura tried to escape another \u201coutburst\u201d by climbing out a window. He says Combs and a driver then chased him on a freeway, pursuing him at nearly 100 mph, leaving him \u201cterrified.\u201d He alleges Combs \u201cbragged about violently retaliating against people that had turned against him,\u201d and that Combs\u2019 employees \u201cknew\u201d their boss had \u201cguns and weapons around.\u201d<\/p>\n