Sean “Diddy” Combs speaks at press convention, 24 October 2007, asserting an alliance with Ciroc Vodka in New York. Sean Combs Enterprises will make branding selections for Ciroc and can share in future income from the vodka made by Diageo.
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Two extra sexual assault lawsuits have been filed in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, each accusing the billionaire of grooming, sexual misconduct and retaliatory threats that befell when the plaintiffs have been underaged. These two fits are separate filings however each assert that Combs abused his energy and affect, coercing minors into sexual exercise by promising them stardom within the music business.
These fits add to the deluge of greater than 20 civil instances filed in opposition to the music and media big within the final 12 months and to Combs’ pending federal fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, however stand out for being the youngest of Combs’ alleged victims thus far.
Within the first swimsuit, a John Doe plaintiff accuses Combs of assaulting him at a New York Metropolis lodge in 2005 when the plaintiff was simply 10 years previous. The unnamed accuser, who presently resides in California, claims that he then had desires of turning into a rapper and/or actor. His mother and father employed a profession marketing consultant to assist him, who recommended that he fly to New York to satisfy with business energy gamers like Combs. In keeping with the submitting, when the plaintiff arrived, the marketing consultant organized for him to “audition” for Combs in a New York lodge room. In the course of the assembly, the plaintiff was left alone with Combs and after performing just a few rap songs, Combs stated he may “make him a star.” The plaintiff was given a soda and, after ingesting it, started to really feel dizzy. The plaintiff believes the drink was laced with medication, “together with however not restricted to GHB and/or ecstasy.”
As soon as Doe felt unstable, the grievance states that Combs pushed the boy on the lodge room mattress. Combs then pulled his penis out of his pants and instructed the 10-year-old to “kiss it” earlier than forcing it into the boy’s mouth. The boy handed out from shock and concern. When the plaintiff regained consciousness, Combs was nonetheless within the room and the boy’s “pants have been undone, and his anus and buttocks damage badly.” Combs instructed the plaintiff that he would damage his mother and father if he instructed anybody about what had occurred. The submitting states that the plaintiff did so anyway quickly after however, on the time, the household was so terrified of the results of reporting Combs, they didn’t come ahead.
Within the separate submitting, a John Doe sufferer claims that he was 17 years previous when Combs repeatedly sexually assaulted him over a sequence of encounters. In or round 2008, the boy participated in a three-day audition for Diddy’s hit MTV competitors sequence, Making the Band. In keeping with the swimsuit, the plaintiff noticed the chance on-line and thru newspaper advertisements and believed this was his likelihood to interrupt into the music business. In the course of the audition course of, the plaintiff superior to a stage the place contestants met individually in non-public rooms with Combs and his bodyguard.
Throughout his first one-on-one interview with Combs, the plaintiff states that the mogul started to ask him hypothetical questions on responding to sexual strain. As he requested John Doe questions, Combs started to fondle the plaintiff’s genitals and masturbate. “Combs emphasised his energy to regulate plaintiff’s future within the music business, stating that he had the power to make or break his profession,” the swimsuit particulars. Throughout one other interview with Combs, the plaintiff was instructed to get undressed and show he might be a “intercourse idol” inside the band. Combs then allegedly compelled the 17-year-old boy to carry out oral intercourse and sodomized him. Throughout a 3rd assembly, Combs allegedly launched the plaintiff to his bodyguard, named “T,” and compelled the boy to carry out oral intercourse on “T” as nicely. In keeping with the swimsuit, “Combs framed this as a take a look at of Plaintiff’s willingness to do something obligatory to reach the music business.” When the plaintiff would present hesitation, Combs stated he was not reliable. Quickly after performing oral intercourse on the bodyguard, the plaintiff claims he was eradicated from the audition course of and unable to achieve entry into the music business for a number of years.
These newest instances have been filed in New York’s Supreme Courtroom by the regulation agency of Tony Buzbee — the identical Texas-based agency that made headlines final month for asserting that they might be representing greater than 100 alleged victims in opposition to Combs.
In response to those newest fits, Combs maintains, through his attorneys, that he has by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody — “man or girl, grownup or minor.” Combs’ authorized group additional asserted that “the lawyer behind this lawsuit is excited by media consideration reasonably than the reality, as is apparent from his fixed press appearances and 1-800 quantity,” and acknowledged that they’ve full confidence in proving their shopper’s innocence by means of the judicial course of.
