The Texas lawyer who says he is representing greater than dozens of potential victims of alleged intercourse trafficking music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs vowed to call names in an ominous warning to the leisure business this week.
Tony Buzbee is a former Recon Marine officer and the top of a Houston-based nationwide legislation agency, which is joined by the AVA Regulation Group representing 120 new accusers.
“I count on that there are lots of nervous individuals proper now who’re looking their reminiscences, scrubbing their social media, deleting their knowledge on their telephones within the hopes that they don’t seem to be anyhow in any means related to this,” he informed “Mornings on Advantage Road” on Dr. Phil’s Advantage TV.
Buzbee added that authorized motion may come towards not simply alleged accomplices, but in addition enablers and even individuals who “turned a blind eye.”
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Harve Pierre, left, and Sean “Diddy” Combs are seen at “Sean P. Diddy Combs Hosts Unhealthy Boy & Warner Bros. Music Partnership Celebration” at Stream in New York Metropolis on Could 3, 2005. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage/Getty Photos)
No lawsuits had been filed, nevertheless, and Buzbee mentioned he anticipated the primary one to start inside a month.
“A lot of the circumstances will probably be filed in New York, however many is likely to be filed additionally in California,” he informed the hosts. “And I do consider that there will probably be lots of extra defendants that the general public will probably be stunned about — and people who everyone knows.”
“The listing could be very lengthy.”
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Sean “Diddy” Combs indicators to boaters as they cross by his Star Island residence in Miami Seashore, Florida, on April 7. (Zak Bennett for Fox Information Digital)
Buzbee mentioned earlier this week that greater than two dozen new accusers who reached out to him have been minors on the time of their alleged victimization, together with a 9-year-old, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old.
“Once you speak in regards to the ages of the victims when the conduct occurred, it is surprising,” he informed reporters Monday.
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Combs, by means of his legal professional Erica Wolff, has vehemently denied the accusations.
Sean “Diddy” Combs rides a bicycle from his residence throughout the Star Island Bridge in Miami Seashore, Florida, on April 4. (Romain Maurice/Mega for Fox Information Digital)
“As Mr. Combs’ authorized staff has emphasised, he can not handle each meritless allegation in what has grow to be a reckless media circus,” she informed Fox Information Digital on Tuesday. “That mentioned, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors. He seems to be ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom, the place the reality will probably be established primarily based on proof, not hypothesis.”
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The mogul is being held with out bail in federal custody in New York.
Any credible civil lawsuits may result in extra prison expenses, in response to authorized consultants.
“If there are kids that have been victims, you possibly can wager the U.S. legal professional will examine and indict Diddy with extra expenses which can be extraordinarily severe,” mentioned David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area protection legal professional who has been following the case. “I wouldn’t be stunned if they’ve already been investigating and extra individuals will probably be indicted.”
File photograph of Sean “Diddy” Combs and friends at White Celebration (Dimitrios Kambouris/WireImage for Unhealthy Boy Leisure)
The specter of extra civil fits additionally places strain on the billionaire Unhealthy Boy Data founder to take a plea deal, which his legal professionals mentioned earlier this week he would not settle for.
“They should cease the bleeding, and the U.S. legal professional goes to maintain coming at them,” Gelman informed Fox Information Digital. “If I’m Diddy’s legal professional, I’m telling Diddy to authorize me to barter the most effective deal, and if he desires to cooperate, that may solely assist him earlier than it’s too late.”
Fox Information’ Tracy Wright contributed to this report.
Should you or somebody you understand has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org
