Sean “Diddy” Combs has truly been struck with 5 much more fits charging him of sex-related bodily violence.
Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee submitted the matches anonymously on Tuesday in behalf of three male accusers and a couple of ladies accusers, each one in every of which can be asking for a court docket take a look at. The relocation belonged to better than 120 inbound fits versus Combs that Buzbee announced in October.
In a statement revealing the matches, Buzbee stored in thoughts that the complaints in these 5 cases return to 2001 and are affirmed to have truly taken place in New York and Miami.
HuffPost acquired the papers for each of the fits.
“Several other individuals are referenced in the case filings but are not at this time formally named as defendants,” Buzbee said. “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.”
One ladies accuser, that presently stays in Texas, asserted she was drugged at Combs’ Fourth of July Party within the Hamptons in 2004, whereupon she was 17, and bought up after passing out to “throbbing pains in her vaginal and anal areas.” She asserted that Combs and his bodyguards intimidated her and said, “She would be in danger if she spoke about what had occurred, stating that he ‘ran New York and would ruin her.’”
The numerous different ladies accuser, that lives in Maryland, asserted she and her 2 buddies have been drugged and required to supply foreplay to the males within the car heading to a Combs’ occasion in 2001. She said she “struggled with intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress” after the supposed assault.
One male accuser asserted that Combs, a bodyguard and “a Caucasian man” that benefited Combs drugged him with a Diet Coke and raped him in October 2001, whereupon he was auditioning for a perform. The John Doe said the event led him to battle with “intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed.”
Another male accuser asserted he was drugged at an after-party in Miami in 2022. He moreover affirmed that he woke as much as Combs raping him.
The numerous different male accuser, after that 39 years of ages, moreover asserted that he was drugged and handed out in 2022 at a houseparty. When the complainant wakened, “He was in a dark bedroom with black walls, on a bed with black sheets. Everything around him was dark. Plaintiff was horrified to find Combs on top of him, sodomizing him,” the authorized motion included.
A New York authorities court docket rejected the occasion Wednesday, asserting that the Plaintiff was not allowed to submit the match anonymously.
The court docket asserted that “such a proceeding must be commenced as a miscellaneous case with leave from the Court to proceed using a pseudonym.”
However, the occasion was refiled, Buzbee knowledgeable HuffPost on Wednesday.
“One of the filings yesterday (John Doe = D W) was bounced for not being filed with a motion re: anonymity. It was refiled today alongside a motion (all the motions were filed today),” Buzbee said. “Same thing that happened with one of the original filings.”
(An unrevealed “high-profile” celebrity sued Buzbee for extortion on Monday– a claim that he denied.)
Buzbee has truly submitted every of the fits that decision Combs as an accused up to now with confidential complainants,according to ABC News However, one judge in October ruled {that a} confidential Combs accuser ought to provide her identify since “defendants have a right to defend themselves” and “the people have a right to know who is using their courts.”
Buzbee asserted in a earlier declaration to a number of electrical retailers that the occasion will surely transfer on. He included that the aim behind submitting the cases versus Combs anonymously is to defend the accusers.
“We have great respect for the court and its rulings,” Buzbee said. “Our job as counsel for these victims is to protect their safety the best we can, which is what we were trying to do by filing the cases anonymously. Anonymous or not, this case will proceed, period.”
In suggestions to the newest accusations versus Combs, his lawyer Erica Wolff knowledgeable HuffPost on Thursday that “Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone ― man or woman, adult or minor.”
Combs has truly been locked up on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, contemplating that his apprehension inSeptember His apprehension follows an onslaught of lawsuits charging him of bodily violence and/or rape, his cost and apprehension, and raids on his houses in Los Angeles and Florida.
