The authorized instances in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs proceed to escalate.
With the rapper behind bars after getting arrested final month on fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, 120 folks have now come ahead with new sexual assault allegations in opposition to the mogul.
Maybe most notable, and most heinous? One in all these accusers is a 9-year outdated boy.
On Tuesday, Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee held a press convention alleging Combs sexually abused a large number of minors.
The lawyer claimed one 9-year-old boy was abused after he auditioned on the Dangerous Boy Information Studio in New York Metropolis.
“Other boys were there to audition as well,” Buzbee mentioned.
“All of them were trying to land a record deal. All of them were minors. This individual [the 9-year-old] was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio with the promise to both his parents and himself of getting a record deal.”
Added Buzbee:
“We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates.”
The lawyer mentioned his group had “collected pictures, video, texts,” which might expose, “Many powerful people … many dirty secrets.”
In response to NBC Information, Buzbee — who alleges that 25 of the aforementioned victims have been minors — plans to file the lawsuits within the varied states over the following 30 days.
These new allegations come within the wake of being accused of internet hosting what he and his mates known as Freak-Off events.
The federal indictment served final month claims that the artist organized “elaborate sex performances” throughout which ladies have been compelled by “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”
In response to this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s houses earlier this yr have been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and infrequently “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting industrial intercourse staff “throughout state strains and internationally.
These gatherings have been frequent in nature and allegedly lasted for days.
As of this writing, Diddy stays in custody as a result of he was denied bail on September 17.
He has pleaded not responsible and denied all the present fees in opposition to him and awaits his standing listening to on October 9.
“As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus,” the star’s lawyer Erica Wolff mentioned in a press release to E! Information.
“That mentioned, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors.
“He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
