Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has been accused of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in one of two new lawsuits, filed in New York this week.
The disgraced rapper was arrested last month on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution – he was remanded to Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and has been denied bail.
The 54-year-old has faced multiple allegations of sexual assault and rape in claims that span decades, but has denied all allegations against him.
He was named in a further two civil lawsuits submitted by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, who previously revealed that there are more than 120 alleged victims preparing to sue him.
One unnamed man has claimed the businessman sexually assaulted him at a hotel in New York in 2005, when he was aged just 10, during an ‘audition’.
In the documents, obtained by the BBC, John Doe alleged they had a private meeting in his hotel room, where they were left alone – he is said to have performed songs for the mogul, before a third person gave him a drink that made him feel ‘funny’.
According to the outlet, Combs ordered him to perform a sex act and assaulted him when he resisted – he reportedly lost consciousness and awoke with his pants undone, while the mogul threatened to hurt his parents if he told anyone.
The second lawsuit was filed by another unnamed man, who claimed that he auditioned for Combs’ reality show, Making the Band, at the age of 17 – he is said to have attended a three-day audition in 2008.
The lawsuit, via CNN, alleges that ‘Combs asked Plaintiff hypothetical questions about handling situations involving sexual pressure’, during a one-on-one interview on the first day.
‘As Combs described these scenarios, he began to sexually assault Plaintiff by touching Plaintiff both over and under his clothing, including groping and fondling his penis and instructing Plaintiff to undress,’ the paperwork reportedly read, sharing that Combs emphasized his power in the music industry.
The following day, he allegedly asked the teenager to undress to ‘demonstrate’ his ‘sex idol persona’, but this ‘encounter eventually escalated into Combs forcing the Plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, and Combs sodomizing the Plaintiff’.
On the third day, Doe alleged that the Grammy-winner and his bodyguard sexually assaulted him, before eliminating him from the competition, branding him ‘untrustworthy due to his reservations about performing oral sex on his bodyguard’.
Buzbee filed the two new lawsuits on Monday in New York state court, after submitting six separate lawsuits two weeks ago.
‘We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors,’ he previously declared. ‘We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates.
‘It’s a long list already, but because of the nature of this case, we are going to make damn sure that we’re right before we do that.
‘But the names that we’re going to name … are names that will shock you.’
Combs’ reps addressed the new filings in a statement shared with Metro, which read: ‘The lawyer behind this lawsuit is interested in media attention rather than the truth, as is obvious from his constant press appearances and 1-800 number.
‘As we’ve said before, Mr Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are facially ridiculous or demonstrably false.
‘Mr Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process.
‘In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone – man or woman, adult or minor.’
Combs is currently in custody after he was arrested last month – his trial has reportedly been slated to begin on May 5, 2025.
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