Greater than 100 accusers reportedly got here ahead alleging “rape, sexual assault and sexual exploitation” claims in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Throughout a press convention Tuesday, Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee claimed the youngest accuser was 9 years previous, with one other 15-year-old alleged accuser. Buzbee acknowledged there have been extra minors concerned within the lawsuits, which have but to be filed.
Combs’ authorized workforce denied the allegations in an announcement offered to Fox Information Digital.
“As Mr. Combs’ authorized workforce has emphasised, he can’t tackle each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus,” Combs’ lawyer, Erica Wolff, said. “That mentioned, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors. He seems ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom, the place the reality shall be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
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Sean “Diddy” Combs faces new lawsuits from 120 accusers, together with claims from minors. (Getty Photographs)
Buzbee claimed the alleged abuse started as early as 1991, with reported incidents taking place into 2024. Victims, who’re scattered across the nation in states together with California, Florida, Georgia and New York, got here ahead after Diddy was indicted by federal prosecutors.
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“After we discuss in regards to the ages of the victims when the conduct occurred, it is stunning,” Buzbee mentioned through the convention. “The youngest sufferer on the time of the prevalence was 9 years previous. We’ve got a person who was 14 years previous. We’ve got one who was 15. Twenty-five of the 120 people who’re plaintiffs in these instances had been minors on the time of the acts complained of.
“The time-frame of the acts complained of could be very huge. The conduct the problems spans from the years 1991 all the best way to this 12 months, 2024.”
“He seems ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality shall be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
Diddy was arrested Sept. 16 and charged the next day with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. The rapper entered a not responsible plea hours after an indictment detailing his alleged intercourse crimes was unsealed.
Sean “Diddy” Combs pleaded not responsible. On this sketch, he sits between his attorneys, Marc Agnifilo, left, and Teny Geragos, in Manhattan Federal Court docket final month. (Elizabeth Williams by way of AP)
If discovered responsible, he faces a minimal of 15 years behind bars or a most sentence of life in jail.
The “I will Be Lacking You” singer was denied bail twice, even after providing a $50 million bail proposal package deal, which included GPS monitoring at his house on Miami’s Star Island. Diddy’s workforce tried to point out the decide he was not a flight threat by means of his communications with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace through the ongoing investigation.
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Authorities alleged Diddy ran a legal enterprise by means of his companies, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs International, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual wishes, in accordance with the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
Diddy and his workers would “intimidate, threaten, and lure feminine victims into Combs’ orbit, typically below the pretense of a romantic relationship. Combs allegedly then used pressure, threats of pressure and coercion to trigger victims to have interaction in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse staff that Combs known as, amongst different issues, ‘Freak Offs.'” Diddy typically offered IV fluids to his victims after “freak offs” to recuperate from bodily exertion and drug use, in accordance with the indictment.
Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by pressure, fraud or coercion; and transportation to have interaction in prostitution within the indictment unsealed final month. (Munawar Hosain)
Buzbee mentioned he plans to reveal the enablers who allegedly helped Diddy alongside the best way.
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“The day will come after we will title names apart from Sean Combs, and there’s lots of names,” he mentioned. “It’s a protracted listing already, however due to the character of this case, we’re going to make rattling certain — rattling certain — that we’re proper earlier than we do this.
“The names will shock you.”
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Should you or somebody you realize has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org
