New lawsuits filed Monday in Manhattan federal court accuse Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping women, sexually assaulting men, and molesting a 16-year-old boy.
Two women identified only as Jane Does and four men listed as John Does filed civil suits that describe alleged incidents with Combs, 54, from 1995 through 2021.
One John Doe, a North Carolina resident who had dreams of making it in the entertainment industry, claims Combs groped him at age 16 during a 1998 white party hosted by the rapper in the Hamptons.
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Black Tie Affair For Quality Control’s CEO Pierre “Pee” Thomas at Fox Theater on June 2, 2021, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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The six lawsuits are the first from a group of 120 accusers being represented by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee.
In an October 2 press conference, Buzbee said the allegations will claim “violent sexual assault or rape, facilitated sex with a controlled substance, dissemination of video recordings, sexual abuse of minors.”
“The biggest secret in the entertainment industry that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world. The wall of silence has now been broken, and victims are coming forward,” Buzbee said during a press conference.
“Our team has had at this point more than 3,285 individuals contact us from people claiming to have been victimized by Sean Combs. We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates,” Buzbee added.
“It’s a long list already, but because of the nature of this case, we are going to make sure damn sure we are right,” Buzbee said. “These names will shock you.”
He said of the 120 alleged victims that 60 are men and 60 are women.
“Our youngest victim is nine years old. We have an individual who is 14 years old. We have one who is 15,” Buzbee said.
Combs was arrested and charged on September 16 in a three-count Indictment with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.
Combs is being held in the Special Housing Unit, removed from the general population, at the notoriously rough Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. He has been denied bail on three different occasions.
Newsweek has emailed reps for Combs for comment.
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