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(NewsNation) — Six lawsuits were filed Monday against euphony shaper and rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs that allege helium sexually assaulted 2 men and 2 women betwixt 1995 and 2021.
These suits were filed anonymously successful the Southern District of New York. Among them is 1 by a antheral who says helium was a insignificant astatine the clip of the assault.
“Defendant Sean Combs routinely recruited individuals to parties, drugged them, and past sexually exploited them,” according to a complaint.
A suit filed by a antheral from North Carolina states Combs was talking to him astir the euphony manufacture erstwhile helium ordered the past 16-year-old to driblet his pants.
“Don’t you privation to interruption into the business?” the suit alleges Combs asked him.
Then, the suit said, Combs grabbed and began feeling the teenager's genitals.
Former national authoritative Neama Rahmani tells "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" that if the accusations made by a insignificant against Diddy were included successful his national indictment, overmuch of his defense’s statement astir consenting relations betwixt adults would spell retired the window.
But that's lone if these civilian suits power the proceedings — which Rahmani said would lone hap if the victims travel guardant and testify.
Monday’s suits were filed by Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee, who antecedently said he’s representing 120 radical who’ve experienced intersexual misconduct by Combs.
“There’s an overarching taxable here, arsenic you astir apt tin see, which is fundamentally Sean Combs feels similar helium tin bash immoderate helium wants, whenever helium wants to bash it,” Buzbee said successful an interrogation with NBC News earlier filing the documents.
In summation to aggregate civilian suits filed, the archetypal being 1 by Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Cassie” Ventura, the shaper is besides criminally charged with enactment trafficking and racketeering. A expansive assemblage indicted Combs, who is present being held astatine the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn contempt attempts by his defence attorneys to get him freed connected bail.
NewsNation has reached retired to a typical for Combs. Erica Wolff, Combs’ lawyer, said successful a erstwhile connection to NewsNation that the rap mogul “cannot code each meritless allegation successful what has go a reckless media circus.”
“That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies arsenic mendacious and defamatory immoderate assertion that helium sexually abused anyone, including minors,” Wolff said successful a statement.
Another suit filed Monday alleges Combs raped a pistillate erstwhile she was a assemblage freshman successful a locked edifice country successful 2004. Combs, the suit said, invited the woman, identified arsenic “Jane Doe,” and a person to a enactment there, wherever helium gave them drinks and told them to snort cocaine.
The pistillate said successful the suit that Combs forced her person to execute oral enactment connected him and threatened to person them some killed if they didn’t bash what helium wanted.
In a antithetic lawsuit, a abstracted Jane Doe says Combs attacked her successful the bath astatine a 2005 enactment celebrating the precocious rapper Biggie Smalls’ euphony video, “One More Chance.” Combs, according to the lawsuit, brought the pistillate into the bath and started kissing her. The pistillate tried to propulsion away, she said, but helium slammed her caput against the wall, and she fell to the floor.
When she tried to get away, Combs deed her and raped her, the pistillate says. After, Combs allegedly told her not to archer anyone, “or you volition disappear.”
A antheral identified arsenic John Doe said that Combs gave him an alcoholic portion astatine his achromatic enactment successful 2006 that helium believes included a cause that made him sick. Then, the suit said, Combs pushed John Doe into a van and sexually assaulted him.
Other incidents elaborate successful lawsuits see a antheral stating helium was forced to springiness Combs oral enactment successful a Macy’s stockroom successful Manhattan’s Herald Square, arsenic good arsenic 1 wherever a antheral says the shaper gave him a drugged beverage. At 1 point, the man, who says aggregate men assaulted him, saw Combs bare supra him, according to the lawsuit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
