A former model claims has alleged she was drugged while celebrating New Year’s Eve in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ VIP box – and was videoed when she started throwing up.

Jo Eskridge, 43, attended the bash at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami with her sister. The pair say they spotted the rapper in a private booth – and claims Jay Z, Beyonce, Jamie Foxx and Tyrese Gibson were also in attendance.

The former model’s story comes as Combs remains in jail awaiting trial after being arrested in New York City last month. The Bad Boy Records founder has been charged with s3x trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs is also facing a string of allegations in a series of civil lawsuits. The rapper denies all the charges and allegations made against him.

Jo says her sister got them into the VIP area where bottles of champagne and shots were being passed around the guests and Jo was halfway through her drink when she claims she started to feel “weird”.

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ famous parties have come under the spotlight since his arrest last month ( 
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Jo Eskridge at the disgraced rapper’s New Year’s Eve party before her night took a dark turn ( 
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She quickly found herself unable to walk and was “falling all over the place” – and believes her drink was spiked. Jo was removed by security due to the state she was in – before the party then moved on to P Diddy’s yacht. She claims she started behaving “erratically” and “got into a fight with security” which resulted in her being hit in the head with a flashlight and knocked out.

Jo, from Los Angeles, California, said: “At the time I was a model living in New York City and a promoter friend of mine was hosting a party at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami. I didn’t even know P Diddy was going to be there – I had no idea. I remember my sister meeting P Diddy, Beyonce and Jay Z. After that night I stopped drinking for 10 years, I was embarrassed and I blamed myself. I thought I had too much to drink and I was too drunk – I victim blamed myself.”

Former model Jo and her sister were invited to the party on December 31, 2008 by a promoter friend. The siblings thought it would be a good way to make new connections but had no idea P Diddy – and a host of other celebrities – would be there. Jo said: “My sister and I were having champagne at the bar. My sister got us into the VIP section and that is where P Diddy was – he had his whole party in the VIP section. We went in and everything was cool. They gave everyone a bottle of champagne, it was New Year’s Eve – everything was fine.”

The former model was left with injuries after the NYE bash ( 
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Jo says she and her sister got separated as soon as they got into the VIP section and she feels they were “targeted” Combs’ people – as they ended up apart for the whole night. Half way through drinking a bottle of champagne, Jo says she started to feel “weird”. She said: “I started feeling animated, a little loopy – it was like an over-exaggerated buzz. I was a 27-year-old model living in New York, I could handle my drink. I started to feel weird – that something was off. Shots were being passed around the room. My sister could see me from across the room and said after I took that shot everything went downhill.”

Jo suddenly could barely walk and she started throwing up in the VIP area .Jo was on her own when the bouncers escorted her from the VIP area. She said: “Everyone was heading onto the Diddy yacht for an after party and my sister was invited. The next thing I know, a security guard grabbed me – I was in fight or flight mode.

“I started fighting, it felt like I was fighting for my life. I had three people on top of me, at some point, they hit me on the head with a flashlight and I went unconscious and was bleeding from the head. It is not in my nature to fight, I am not a violent drunk – I think I was spiked because I turned into the Tasmanian devil. That is not me.”

Jo and her sister managed to avoid going on Combs’ yacht for the afterparty ( 
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The next thing Jo remembered was being put into the back of a police van and taken to Dade County Jail in Miami Jo said: “In a way that night saved us. My sister was ready to go on the yacht but she didn’t get on as she went searching for me. For years I thought I had ruined this connection and I was so embarrassed of myself.

“Over the years I heard all these allegations about P Diddy and how he is known for passing bottles of champagne and drugging people. I know other women who have experienced the same thing – this was hip-hop culture. My heart goes out to the victims that have been s3xually assaulted. It also goes out to the hundreds of people like me who have been spiked. And my heart goes out to the ones who have lost their lives and the victims currently dealing with what they went through.”