The authorized instances in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs proceed to escalate.
With the rapper behind bars after getting arrested final month on charges of sex 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? Considered one of these accusers is a 9-year outdated boy.
On Tuesday, Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee held a press convention alleging Combs sexually abused a mess of minors.
The lawyer claimed one 9-year-old boy was abused after he auditioned on the Unhealthy Boy Information Studio in New York Metropolis.
“Different boys have been there to audition as properly,” Buzbee stated.
“All of them have been attempting to land a document deal. All of them have been minors. This particular person [the 9-year-old] was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and several other different folks on the studio with the promise to each his dad and mom and himself of getting a document deal.”
Added Buzbee:
“We’ll expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doorways. We’ll pursue this matter regardless of who the proof implicates.”
The lawyer stated his workforce had “collected footage, video, texts,” which might expose, “Many highly effective folks … many soiled secrets and techniques.”
Based on 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 subsequent 30 days.
These new allegations come within the wake of being accused of internet hosting what he and his mates known as Freak-Off parties.
The federal indictment served final month claims that the artist organized “elaborate intercourse performances” throughout which ladies have been compelled by way of “pressure, threats of pressure, and coercion, to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse staff.”
Based on this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s properties 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 remains 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’ authorized workforce has emphasised, he can’t handle each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus,” the star’s lawyer Erica Wolff stated in an announcement to E! Information.
“That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors.
“He appears ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court docket, the place the reality will probably be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
