HOUSTON — Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee stated Tuesday he’s representing 120 accusers who’ve come ahead with new sexual misconduct allegations towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, the hip-hop mogul awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking costs.
Houston-based Buzbee stated he expects lawsuits to be filed inside the subsequent month. Buzbee described the victims as 60 males and 60 females, and that 25 had been minors on the time of the alleged misconduct.
“It is stunning. Our youngest sufferer on the time of the incidence was 9 years previous. We have now a person who was 14 years previous,” Buzbee stated at a information convention Tuesday. “The conduct at concern spans from the years 1991 all the way in which until this yr, 2024. When you marvel why there are such a lot of alleged victims. That is your reply. We’re speaking about greater than 25 years of such a conduct.”
Buzbee stated many of the alleged occasions and incidents occurred at events “sometimes after events or album launch events, New 12 months’s Eve events, fourth of July events, one thing they name the ‘pet occasion,’ ‘all white occasion.'”
“A few of this habits occurred at well-known venues in New York Metropolis,” Buzbee stated. “A few of this habits occurred at personal residences of those who all of us know. A few of this habits occurred at motels that we’re all acquainted with. You must know that greater than 55% of the victims filed reviews reported this conduct to both the authorities, that’s the police or to hospitals.”
Following the information convention in Texas, an lawyer for Combs stated the performer “can not deal with each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus.”
“That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors,” lawyer Erica Wolff stated in a press release. “He seems to be ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality can be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
Combs, 54, has been locked up on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn since pleading not responsible on Sept. 17 to federal costs that he used his “energy and status” to induce feminine victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male intercourse employees in occasions dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Buzbee additionally represented ladies who accused NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual assault.
Different alleged victims have already filed lawsuits towards Combs that embrace allegations of sexual assault.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to federal racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. His lawyer stated he’s harmless and can battle to clear his identify. Combs is being held in the federal detention middle in Brooklyn till his trial.
Combs is among the best-known music executives, producers and performers throughout hip-hop, having received three Grammys and labored with artists corresponding to Infamous B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Religion Evans and 112. He based Unhealthy Boy Information in 1993, the influential trend line Sean John, a vodka model and the Revolt TV community. He bought off his stake within the latter firm in June of this yr.