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Sean “Diddy” Combs Accused of Sexual Assault and Rape successful Series of New Civil Suits
The allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs proceed to mount.
While the rapper has been successful jailhouse since his September arrest—facing charges of sex trafficking, prostitution and racketeering, to which he’s plead not guilty—additional victims person travel forward alleging they were sexually assaulted by Combs.
And successful a caller slew of filings obtained by E! News, 1 plaintiff—identified arsenic Jane Doe successful the docs—alleges the babe lipid recovered successful Combs’ location was laced with Rohypnol oregon GHB, which are often referred to arsenic the day rape drug.
“Combs peculiarly fancied the usage of the fashionable date-rape cause Rohypnol, oregon GHB,” the Oct. 14 filing alleges, “to perpetrate heinous non-consensual acts of intersexual unit and rape against countless victims.”
The suit references the allegations against Combs of “dousing victims successful lotions oregon akin assemblage oils” and claims these lubricants were laced with GHB “so that the cause would beryllium absorbed done the victim’s tegument and marque it easier to instrumentality vantage of, exploit, and battle him oregon her.”
But the 54-year-old’s usage of GHB was allegedly not constricted to the babe oil—of which authorities accidental they seized 1000 bottles of portion executing hunt warrants connected Combs’ location successful September. According to the filing, the cause could besides beryllium recovered successful beverages astatine his events.
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“Combs often would secretly usage the cause successful an alcoholic beverage served astatine his parties,” the filing adds, “typically successful a seemingly guiltless solid of champagne oregon a ‘lemon drop.’ Partygoers were forced to devour the alcoholic beverage, containing GHB, either anterior to entering oregon portion astatine Combs’ party.”
Jane Doe’s civilian suit was 1 of 5 caller filings against Combs. The complaints were made connected behalf of 3 men and 2 women, each of whom remained anonymous, and included allegations against Combs spanning from 1995 to 2021.
Among the claims wrong the filings were allegations of intersexual battle and rape, including 1 assertion from a pistillate unfortunate that accused Combs of raping her successful a Manhattan edifice country erstwhile she was 19 years old.
E! News reached retired to Combs’ ineligible squad astatine the clip of these filings but did not perceive back.
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The lawyer down the filings, Tony Buzbee—who antecedently said helium was representing 120 accusers of Combs—spoke to the influx of claims he’s received and plans to record successful the coming weeks.
"We volition fto the allegations successful the filed complaints talk for themselves, and volition enactment to spot that justness is done," Buzbee said connected Instagram Oct. 14. "We expect to beryllium filing galore much cases implicit the adjacent respective weeks naming Mr. Combs and others arsenic defendants arsenic we proceed to stitchery grounds and hole the filings."
The lawyer besides provided penetration arsenic to wherefore truthful galore alleged victims whitethorn person chosen present to travel guardant against Combs, who is acceptable to statesman his proceedings connected May 5.
"I deliberation the indictment and the apprehension benignant of gave radical a small much comfortableness that they had much information and enactment to measurement forward," helium told Law & Crime earlier this month. "When I made an announcement that I was going to prosecute this case, the floodgates truly opened. In a 10-day period, we got 3,200 calls and past from the property league we had yesterday, we had 12,000 calls successful astir 24 hours."
Meanwhile, Combs’ ineligible squad antecedently issued a broad denial of culpability against existing and aboriginal allegations of intersexual assault.
"He cannot code each meritless allegation successful what has go a reckless media circus," 1 of his attorneys Erica Wolff told E! News successful an Oct. 1 statement. "That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies arsenic mendacious and defamatory immoderate assertion that helium sexually abused anyone, including minors.”
“He looks guardant to proving his innocence,” Wolff continued, “and vindicating himself successful tribunal if and erstwhile claims are filed and served, wherever the information volition beryllium established based connected evidence, not speculation."
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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