In a staggering new replace to Sean “Diddy” Combs’ already harrowing indictment, Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee simply revealed that he’s representing 120 new purchasers with assault allegations in opposition to the disgraced mogul courting again 20 years. In line with the lawyer, these new allegations embrace “violent sexual assault or rape, facilitated intercourse with a managed substance, dissemination of video recordings, sexual abuse of minors.”
Amongst this new group—who be part of already-vocal accusers together with Danity Kane singer Daybreak Richard and Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura—the lawyer says 62% establish as African American and 25 have been minors on the time the incidents occurred; one was as younger as 9 years outdated. The accusers hail from 25 totally different states, with incidents cited as early as 1991.
However Buzbee, who beforehand represented victims in high-profile instances just like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and Astroworld tragedy, isn’t simply going after Combs. “We’ll expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doorways. We’ll pursue this matter irrespective of who the proof implicates,” Buzbee stated throughout a information convention, as reported by NBC Information. “Many highly effective folks … many soiled secrets and techniques,” he continued of the allegations, including that his workforce had “collected photos, video, texts.”
He continued: “It’s a protracted checklist already, however due to the character of this case, we’re going to make rattling positive we’re proper earlier than we do this… These names will shock you.” Apparently, Buzbee has already had greater than 3,000 people come to his workplace with their very own allegations in opposition to Combs and plans to start submitting lawsuits in varied states throughout the subsequent 30 days.
After all, legal professionals for Combs vehemently deny these allegations. “As Mr. Combs’ authorized workforce has emphasised, he can’t tackle each meritless allegation in what has grow 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,” the rapper’s lawyer, Erica Wolff, stated in a press release. “He appears ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court docket if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality will probably be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
Combs is at the moment being held on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn, New York. In his indictment final month, the producer was charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution.
