Sean “Diddy” Combs has actually been struck with 5 even more suits charging him of sex-related physical violence.
Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee submitted the matches anonymously on Tuesday in behalf of 3 male accusers and 2 women accusers, every one of that are asking for a court test. The relocation belonged to greater than 120 inbound suits versus Combs that Buzbee announced in October.
In a statement revealing the matches, Buzbee kept in mind that the complaints in these 5 instances return to 2001 and are affirmed to have actually taken place in New York and Miami.
HuffPost acquired the papers for every of the suits.
“Several other individuals are referenced in the case filings but are not at this time formally named as defendants,” Buzbee stated. “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 women accuser, that presently stays in Texas, asserted she was drugged at Combs’ Fourth of July Party in the Hamptons in 2004, whereupon she was 17, and got up after passing out to “throbbing pains in her vaginal and anal areas.” She asserted that Combs and his bodyguards intimidated her and stated, “She would be in danger if she spoke about what had occurred, stating that he ‘ran New York and would ruin her.’”
The various other women accuser, that lives in Maryland, asserted she and her 2 buddies were drugged and required to provide foreplay to the males in the automobile heading to a Combs’ event in 2001. She stated she “struggled with intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress” after the supposed attack.
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 function. The John Doe stated the occasion led him to fight 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 additionally affirmed that he woke up to Combs raping him.
The various other male accuser, after that 39 years of ages, additionally asserted that he was drugged and passed out in 2022 at a houseparty. When the complainant woke up, “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 legal action included.
A New York government court rejected the instance Wednesday, asserting that the Plaintiff was not allowed to submit the match anonymously.
The court asserted that “such a proceeding must be commenced as a miscellaneous case with leave from the Court to proceed using a pseudonym.”
However, the instance was refiled, Buzbee informed 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 stated. “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 actually submitted each of the suits that call Combs as an accused so far with confidential complainants,according to ABC News However, one judge in October ruled that a confidential Combs accuser should supply her name 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 previous declaration to several electrical outlets that the instance would certainly move on. He included that the purpose behind submitting the instances versus Combs anonymously is to shield the accusers.
“We have great respect for the court and its rulings,” Buzbee stated. “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 feedback to the latest accusations versus Combs, his lawyer Erica Wolff informed 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 actually been locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, considering that his apprehension inSeptember His apprehension follows an onslaught of lawsuits charging him of physical violence and/or rape, his charge and apprehension, and raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Florida.
