A brand new wave of lawsuits filed Monday accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping girls, sexually assaulting males and molesting a 16-year-old boy.
A minimum of six lawsuits have been filed towards the hip-hop mogul in federal court docket in Manhattan. They have been filed anonymously, two by girls recognized as Jane Does and 4 by males recognized as John Does.
The accusers are a part of what their legal professionals say is a gaggle of greater than 100 alleged victims who’re within the technique of taking authorized motion towards Combs within the wake of his intercourse trafficking arrest final month.
One of many John Does, a person residing in North Carolina, alleges that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 at one of many rapper’s well-known white events in Lengthy Island’s Hamptons in 1998.
The person alleges that in a dialog about presumably breaking into the music trade, Combs abruptly ordered the then-teen to drop his pants.
In accordance with the person’s lawsuit, Combs defined to him that it was a ceremony of passage to turning into a music star, at one level asking the then-teen: “Don’t you want to break into the business?”
The person mentioned he complied out of concern, anxiousness and energy imbalance he felt with Combs, solely realizing later that what had occurred was sexual assault.
Till Monday’s lawsuit, Combs had solely been accused in civil circumstances and his legal indictment of sexual exercise with adults.
Combs’ legal professionals and different representatives didn’t instantly reply to an electronic mail in search of remark. When the deliberate lawsuits have been introduced Oct. 1, a lawyer mentioned Combs “cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus.”
Combs, 54, has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking prices alleging he coerced and abused girls for years with assist from a community of associates and workers whereas silencing victims via blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Combs’ legal professionals have been attempting unsuccessfully to get the Dangerous Boy Information founder freed on bail. He has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his Sept. 16 arrest.
Two judges have concluded that Combs could be a hazard to the neighborhood if he’s launched from the Metropolitan Detention Heart, a facility that has been tormented by violence and dysfunction for years. At a bail listening to three weeks in the past, a choose rejected a $50 million bail bundle, together with dwelling detention and digital monitoring, after concluding that Combs was a risk to tamper with witnesses and impede a unbroken investigation.
On Friday, an appeals court docket choose denied Combs’ quick launch from jail whereas a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals weighs his bail request.
The opposite lawsuits filed Monday in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan embody allegations of rape, pressured oral intercourse and drugging to incapacitate victims.
One of many Jane Does suing Combs alleges he raped her in a locked lodge room in 2004 after he invited her and a good friend there for a celebration, gave them drinks and advised them to snort cocaine.
The girl, a school freshman on the time, alleges Combs additionally pressured her good friend to carry out oral intercourse on him and mentioned he would have them each killed in the event that they didn’t comply along with his calls for.
The opposite Jane Doe alleges Combs violently attacked and raped her in a rest room in 2005 at a celebration for the late rapper Biggie Smalls’ music video, “One More Chance.”
In accordance with the girl, Combs introduced her into the lavatory to speak privately after which began kissing her unexpectedly. When she tried to drag away, she alleges, he slammed her head towards the wall, inflicting her to fall to the ground. The girl mentioned she tried to flee, however Combs hit her once more and raped her.
Afterward, in accordance with the girl, Combs nonchalantly adjusted his clothes and advised her: “You better not tell anyone about this, or you will disappear.”
In one other John Doe lawsuit, a person working as a safety guard at Combs’ Hamptons white celebration in 2006 alleges the star gave him an alcoholic beverage that he got here to imagine was laced with a drug that made him really feel extraordinarily sick. The person alleges that Combs then pushed him right into a van, held him down and sexually assaulted him.
Within the different lawsuits filed Monday, Combs is accused of forcing a person to carry out oral intercourse on him within the stockroom of Macy’s flagship retailer in Manhattan’s Herald Sq. in 2008 and sexually assaulting a person at a celebration in October 2021. The latter man, who suspects a drugged beverage left him unable to combat again, recollects a number of males assaulting him and distinctly recollects seeing Combs above him, bare, at one level throughout the assault, his lawsuit mentioned.
