Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is dealing with one other wave of sexual assault and rape accusations, in keeping with a brand new report.
5 new civil fits in opposition to Combs had been filed on Sunday within the Southern District of New York, in keeping with NBC News.
The plaintiffs accuse Combs of sexually assaulting or raping them in separate incidents between 2000 to 2022. Two of the plaintiffs are males, and three are ladies. One of many ladies claims she was 13 when Combs allegedly assaulted her at an MTV Video Music Awards after-party.
The lawsuits, which had been filed by an lawyer in Texas, don’t identify the plaintiffs.
Along with the assaults, Combs can also be accused of drugging one of many males and the entire ladies plaintiffs.
The lawyer who filed the lawsuits, Tony Buzbee, advised NBC Information he deliberate to file two extra lawsuits associated to Combs, after which anticipated “weekly” fits whereas his group gathers proof.
“We count on to be submitting instances weekly naming Mr Combs and others as defendants as we proceed to collect proof and put together the filings,” he advised NBC Information.
Buzbee filed six lawsuits in opposition to Combs final Monday, making this the second week of his filings. That set of filings included allegations from a plaintiff claiming that Combs laced child oil with Rohypnol, an drug typically utilized in date-rape crimes.
“Combs significantly fancied the usage of the favored date-rape drug Rohypnol, or GHB, to commit heinous non-consensual acts of sexual violence and rape in opposition to numerous victims,” the lawsuit claims.
The Unbiased has requested remark from Combs’ protection.
Combs authorized group denied the entire accusations made in Buzbee’s submitting final week.
“Mr. Combs and his authorized group have full confidence within the information, their authorized defenses, and the integrity of the judicial course of,” Combs’ group stated in an announcement. “In courtroom, the reality will prevail that Mr. Combs has by no means sexually assault anybody — grownup or minor, man or girl.”
Combs is presently being held with out bail in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Heart after he was slapped with federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking prices.
His trial is scheduled to start on Could 5.
Along with gathering proof from witnesses, prosecutors are additionally pulling potential proof off of the greater than 90 units they seized from Combs’ properties.
Combs’ authorized group has filed a petition to have the alleged victims in his lawsuits recognized in order that they’ll put together their protection. Additionally they filed a movement on Sunday to gag the alleged victims, arguing that their statements may prejudice a possible jury in opposition to Combs.
Greater than 120 alleged victims have accused Combs of intercourse crimes to date. Combs has denied the entire prices in opposition to him. His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, stated the rapper intends to testify at his trial.
