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(NewsNation) — In the latest lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, erstwhile big movie histrion Adria English alleges that from 2004 and 2009, the euphony mogul forced her to instrumentality drugs and person enactment with guests astatine his New York and Miami mansions.
Adria English's lawyer Ariel Mitchell-Kidd says an indictment is "inevitable" and that Combs volition look transgression charges "for each of the cases we present cognize to beryllium nationalist information."
"I'm assured due to the fact that I person respective sources, including sources for Combs himself, who consciousness precise strongly," Mitchell-Kidd said during a Friday quality connected NewsNation's "Banfield." "I'm precise assured it's lone a substance of time, a abbreviated time."
Department of Homeland Security agents conducted raids March 25 astatine Combs’ multimillion-dollar mansion successful Los Angeles and his Miami waterfront home.
The raids came arsenic the shaper faces a mounting list of civilian lawsuits that allege maltreatment and intersexual battle by aggregate victims spanning implicit 30 years. Combs has denied each the allegations.
Combs has reportedly hired a high-profile transgression defence lawyer amid a imaginable national enactment trafficking probe. He hired Marc Agnifilo, who has represented “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, erstwhile Goldman Sachs banker Roger Ng and NXIVM cult person Keith Raniere, Business Insider reported.
Singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura, who had been successful a decadelong narration with Combs successful the aboriginal 2000s, filed a lawsuit in New York national tribunal past November alleging enactment trafficking, quality trafficking, intersexual battery, intersexual battle and gender-motivated violence, among different causes of action.
She settled the suit with her erstwhile spouse 1 time later, but her suit prompted respective much alleged victims to travel forward.
Hotel surveillance video from 2016 obtained by CNN appeared to show Combs violently kicking and shoving Ventura astatine the now-closed InterContinental Hotel successful the Century City vicinity of Los Angeles. Two days later, Combs released an apology video admitting he bushed Ventura successful the edifice hallway. Agnifilo said the enactment trafficking allegations by Ventura sparked the national probe.
NewsNation's Safia Samee Ali contributed to this report.