Sean “Diddy” Combs, pictured right here in 2018, faces six new lawsuits that had been filed anonymously in federal court docket in Manhattan on Monday.
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NEW YORK — A brand new wave of lawsuits filed Monday accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs of raping ladies, sexually assaulting males and molesting a 16-year-old boy.
At the least six lawsuits had been filed towards the hip-hop mogul in federal court docket in Manhattan. They had been filed anonymously, two by ladies recognized as Jane Does and 4 by males recognized as John Does.
The accusers are a part of what their attorneys say is a gaggle of greater than 100 alleged victims who’re within the strategy 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 line with the person’s lawsuit, Combs defined to him that it was a ceremony of passage to changing into a music star, at one level asking him: “Don’t you wish to break into the enterprise?”
The person stated 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 instances and his legal indictment of sexual exercise with adults.
Combs’ attorneys and different representatives didn’t instantly reply to an e-mail in search of remark. When the deliberate lawsuits had been introduced Oct. 1, a lawyer stated Combs “can not tackle each meritless allegation in what has change into a reckless media circus.”
Combs, 54, has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking prices alleging he coerced and abused ladies for years with assist from a community of associates and staff whereas silencing victims by blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Combs’ attorneys have been attempting unsuccessfully to get the Dangerous Boy Data founder freed on bail. He has been held at a Brooklyn federal jail since his Sept. 16 arrest.
Two judges have concluded that Combs can be a hazard to the neighborhood if he’s launched from the Metropolitan Detention Heart, a facility that has been suffering from violence and dysfunction for years. At a bail listening to three weeks in the past, a choose rejected a proposed $50 million bail package deal, together with dwelling detention and digital monitoring, after concluding Combs would possibly tamper with witnesses and hinder 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.
Different lawsuits filed Monday in U.S. District Courtroom in Manhattan embody allegations of rape, compelled oral intercourse and drugging to incapacitate victims.
One of many Jane Does suing Combs alleges he raped her in a locked resort room in 2004 after he invited her and a pal there for a celebration, gave them drinks and advised them to snort cocaine.
The girl, then a university freshman, alleges Combs additionally compelled her pal to carry out oral intercourse on him and stated he would have them each killed in the event that they didn’t comply together 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 Extra Likelihood.”
In line with the lady, 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 stated she tried to flee, however Combs hit her once more and raped her.
Afterward, in line with the lady, Combs nonchalantly adjusted his clothes and advised her: “You higher not inform anybody about this, or you’ll disappear.”
In one other John Doe lawsuit, a person working as a safety guard at Combs’ Hamptons white get together in 2006 alleges the star gave him an alcoholic beverage he got here to consider was laced with a drug that made him really feel extraordinarily in poor health. The person alleges 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 battle again, recollects a number of males assaulting him and distinctly recollects seeing Combs above him, bare, at one level throughout the assault, his lawsuit stated.
