Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual assault and rape amid a new wave of civil lawsuits.
NBC News reported on Sunday, October 20, that it obtained “five new civil lawsuits” filed that day by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee in the Southern District of New York. The documents, which do not name any plaintiffs, include allegations of sexual assault and rape against Diddy, 54, during “separate” incidents that took place between 2000 and 2002.
The outlet reported that two of the plaintiffs are male and the remaining three were filed by females. One of the female plaintiffs have accused Diddy of raping her when she was 13. It is uncertain how old the woman is now.
The outlet also reported that Diddy is accused of “drugging one of the men and the three women.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Diddy’s legal team for comment.
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Buzbee, who filed six separate lawsuits against the music mogul in a Manhattan federal court on October 14, told the outlet that he planned on filing a total of seven lawsuits (including two additional suits to those cited by the outlet) on Sunday night.
The attorney said in a statement provided to the outlet that day, “We will let the allegations in the filed complaints speak for themselves, and will work to see that justice is done. We expect to be filing cases weekly naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the filings.”
In Buzbee’s October 14 filing, accusations made against Diddy included aggravated sexual assault, sexual abuse and the molestation of a 16-year-old boy. Diddy’s lawyers denied the accusations that same day, releasing a statement that read, “Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, their legal defenses, and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone—adult or minor, man or woman.”
Diddy is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn as he faces charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
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A 14-page indictment was unsealed the day after his September 6 arrest, which accused him of abusing, threatening and coercing women “to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct.”
Diddy had pleaded not guilty to all charges. Through his legal team, he has also filed three individual — and unsuccessful — appeals for pretrial release ahead of his trial which is set to commence on May 5, 2025.
The fresh wave of lawsuits against Diddy comes after a woman named Ashley Parham filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, October 15, that detailed accusations of Diddy and several other men assaulting her in a 2018 “violent gangbang-style rape” after she suggested that Diddy was involved with Tupac Shakur’s 1996 murder.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
