Sean “Diddy’ Combs faces several civil lawsuits that were filed Monday in federal court.
The five complaints filed in the Southern District of New York were on behalf of two males and three females. None of the parties named are mentioned in the filings. The complaints allege incidents from 1995 through 2021, including allegations of sexual assaults and rape.
One complaint includes an allegation of sexual assault and rape against a woman in a Manhattan hotel room when she was a 19-year-old college student.
The lawsuits filed were by Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee, who announced on October 1 at a news conference that he represented accusers of Combs. They were filed under the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act. This law gives victims a window of two years, ending in March 2025, to make older claims.
Buzbee: “We will only file cases we believe are credible and legal,” Buzbee stated.
Combs’ businesses and Combs himself are named as defendants in the lawsuits filed on Monday. The accusers seek unspecified damages.
Conservative Research Group has not independently verified any of the claims made in the complaint.
Buzbee, in an interview before filing the lawsuits, said that there was a common theme. “Sean Combs believes he is free to do anything he pleases, whenever he chooses,” he stated.
Combs’ attorneys were contacted for comment. Combs’ attorneys have previously denied any civil or criminal claims against him, saying that the allegations leveled were “sickening,” and a result of people seeking a “quick payout.”
The filings are coming as the music mogul, who is under fire for federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and criminal conspiracy, fights his pre-trial imprisonment. The lawsuits do not contain any new allegations, but they paint a disturbing image of violent parties fueled by drugs. This is similar to the criminal indictment that was filed last month by prosecutors from the Southern District of New York.
The latest lawsuits come after a New York Judge set a trial date of May 5, for Combs criminal case. He is currently waiting for trial at the Metropolitan Detention Center, in Brooklyn. In a hearing held last week, federal prosecutors said that they were reviewing data from over 90 devices owned by Combs. These devices had been seized during raids on his properties earlier this year as well as when he was arrested in New York.
Combs is appealing the decisions of two judges who denied him bail. Combs’ attorneys filed a bail application in New York’s Federal Appeal Court ahead of the hearing last week.
Buzbee has filed several civil lawsuits since Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Cassie” Venture filed a federal suit in New York almost a year ago. Venture accused Combs, over many years, of sexual and physical abuse. Combs settled with Ventura for an undisclosed sum the next day. Combs, in a statement issued at the time the settlement was reached, denied all the allegations.
CNN released a video in May showing Combs slapping Ventura in a hallway of a Los Angeles Hotel in 2016. Combs apologized but claimed it was an isolated incident and that he’d sought therapy.
Combs’s legal team filed a lawsuit last week claiming the government leaked information to the media and provided CNN with the video footage of the Ventura incident.
The filing said, “Between the leaks of grand jury documents and the public statements incendiary, the agents almost ensured the grand jury as well as general public which we will select a jury from would be tainted.”
Combs’s legal team wants an evidentiary proceeding on the issue, but the prosecutors deny the allegations. The judge who is overseeing the case stated during the hearing last week that he would likely impose a gag order to prevent both sides from speaking with the media.
Combs has been sued by several people in the months following Ventura’s suit. Dawn Richard is a former Danity Kane member who claimed that Combs had groped her, assaulted her, imprisoned her, and threatened her.
