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Sean “Diddy” Combs Accused of Sexual Assault and Rape successful Series of New Civil Suits
Content warning: this nonfiction contains details of intersexual assault.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been deed with different question of lawsuits.
While down bars connected charges of racketeering, enactment trafficking and prostitution—to which he’s plead not blameworthy and is set to statesman proceedings successful May—the euphony mogul has had a slew of accusations made against him, including aggregate allegations of rape and intersexual assault.
And connected Oct. 20, a caller bid of 5 civilian lawsuits were filed against Combs connected behalf of 2 men and 3 women. Among the allegations detailed, which see claims that Combs sexually assaulted oregon raped the plaintiffs successful idiosyncratic incidents betwixt 2000 and 2022, was 1 assertion from an anonymous pistillate plaintiff that she was raped astatine the property of 13 by Combs and an unnamed antheral celebrity.
According to the filing, obtained by E! News, successful Sept. 2000 erstwhile the plaintiff was 13 years old, she had a person driblet her disconnected astatine New York City’s Radio City Music Hall truthful she could effort and sneak into the MTV Video Music Awards.
While incapable to participate the venue without a ticket, the plaintiff approached respective limousine drivers extracurricular the venue, 1 of whom claimed worked for Combs. According to the suit, the operator “told her that Combs liked younger girls and said she ‘is what Diddy was looking for,’” and to travel backmost aboriginal that evening for an aft party.
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When she returned aboriginal that evening, she claims the operator drover her unsocial to a location wherever she was asked to motion a non-disclosure agreement, of which she ne'er received a copy. The plaintiff claims she was fixed a beverage which made her “feel woozy and lightheaded,” and that she went into an bare chamber to prevarication down.
It was there, she claims, that Combs entered with 2 celebrities, 1 antheral and 1 female. According to the plaintiff, Combs and the antheral personage stripped her of her clothes, and past the antheral personage held her down arsenic helium raped her portion Combs and the pistillate personage watched.
The antheral personage and Combs past allegedly switched, with Combs raping her arsenic the 2 celebrities watched. The plaintiff claims Combs past attempted to unit her to springiness him oral sex, but that she deed him successful the cervix and fled the room.
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After fleeing the party, the plaintiff allegedly reached a state presumption wherever she was capable to telephone her begetter for help.
In effect to the caller filings, Combs’ lawyers referred E! News to a erstwhile statement, claiming the “barrage of filings” were attempts to “garner publicity”.
“Mr. Combs and his ineligible squad person afloat assurance successful the facts, their ineligible defenses, and the integrity of the judicial process,” his lawyers told E! News. “In court, the information volition prevail: that Mr. Combs has ne'er sexually assaulted anyone—adult oregon minor, antheral oregon woman.”
Combs’ ineligible squad besides filed a question connected Oct. 20, shared with E! News, “to petition an bid prohibiting further extrajudicial statements from prospective witnesses and their lawyers that substantially interfere with Mr. Combs’s close to a just trial.”
Attorney Tony Buzbee, who has already filed a fig of civilian suits against Combs connected behalf of alleged victims, shared a connection with NBC News successful regards to the caller filings.
“We volition fto the allegations successful the filed complaints talk for themselves, and volition enactment to spot that justness is done,” helium said, per the outlet. “We expect to beryllium filing cases play naming Mr. Combs and others arsenic defendants arsenic we proceed to stitchery grounds and hole the filings.”
For much connected the lawsuit against Combs, support reading.
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Sean "Diddy" Combs Remanded
After Sean "Diddy" Combs pleaded not guilty to enactment trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges connected Sept. 17, his ineligible squad projected a $50 cardinal enslaved bundle that included equity successful his Miami location and his mother's house, arsenic good arsenic constricted his question to wrong definite parts of Florida, New York and New Jersey.
The defence besides offered, per a missive obtained by E! News, to "walk the Court done a bid of actions taken by Mr. Combs implicit the past six months that beryllium that helium is not a hazard of formation oregon a information to anyone successful the community."
U.S. Magistrate Judge Robyn F. Tarnofsky rejected the bundle and ordered that Combs beryllium remanded without bail. He remains successful custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center successful Brooklyn.
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Combs' Lawyer Says Rapper Is Getting Treatment and Therapy
"He is not a cleanable person," Combs' lawyer Marc Agnifilo told the court, per NBC New York. "There has been cause use. He has been successful toxic relationships."
Therefore, helium added, his lawsuit was getting "treatment and therapy for things that helium needs attraction and therapy for."
Overall, though, Combs' "spirits are good," the lawyer told reporters aft tribunal Sept. 17. "He's confident."
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Combs Creates a Slippery Situation
More than 1,000 bottles of babe lipid and idiosyncratic lubricant were seized during the March 2024 raids connected Combs' L.A. and Miami homes, according to the 14-page indictment unsealed Sept. 17.
Per the indictment, the lipid and lube were stockpiled for usage successful alleged "freak-offs," the word Combs utilized for gatherings successful which helium allegedly orchestrated intersexual encounters betwixt women helium coerced and threatened into doing his bidding and antheral enactment workers.
"I don't cognize wherever the fig 1,000 came," his lawyer Agnifilo said successful the TMZ documentary The Downfall of Diddy: The Indictment, which premiered Sept. 27. Pondering retired loud wherefore anyone would request truthful much, the lawyer added, "He has a large house, helium buys successful bulk. I deliberation they person Costcos successful each spot wherever helium has a home."
Costco, meanwhile, wanted nary portion of it, telling TMZ successful a statement that "none" of its U.S. stores transportation babe oil.
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Alleged Combs Texts Read successful Court
In May 2024, CNN published a clip of edifice surveillance video from 2016 that appeared to amusement Combs attacking his then-girlfriend Cassie, calved Cassandra Ventura. (The battle matched up with an alleged incidental elaborate successful the suit she filed against Combs connected Nov. 16, 2023; some parties announced a colony the adjacent day.)
"I was f--ked up. I deed stone bottom," Combs said successful a video posted to Instagram successful effect to the footage. "But I marque nary excuses. My behaviour connected that video is inexcusable. I instrumentality afloat work for my actions successful that video." He had gone to therapy and rehab since, helium added, and was "committed to beryllium a amended antheral each and each day."
During a Sept. 18 proceeding connected Combs' 2nd petition for bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Johnson said, per NBC News, that Combs allegedly sent a substance successful the days pursuing the assault that read, "Call me, the cops are here." Another read, "I person six kids. Call, I’m surrounded."
Johnson did not accidental Cassie's sanction successful court. She said that Combs' unfortunate replied via text, "Sick you deliberation it’s OK to bash what you've done."
Bail was erstwhile again denied, this clip by U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr.
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The Combs Case Is Set for Trial
On Oct. 3, the Combs lawsuit was reassigned to Judge Arun Subramanian because Carter was incapable to accommodate a proceedings date.
During an Oct. 10 presumption hearing, Subramanian acceptable a proceedings day of May 5, 2025.
Prosecutor Johnson told the justice she expected the proceedings to past astir 3 weeks, but said determination was inactive the anticipation that a superseding indictment could pb to much charges against Combs.
Agnifilo said successful tribunal they'd request astir a week to enactment connected their case.
Meanwhile, the lawyer said successful the TMZ doc that Combs was looking guardant to testifying successful his ain defense.
“I don’t cognize that I could support him disconnected the stand," Agnifilo said. "I deliberation helium is precise anxious to archer his story."
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