Sean “Diddy” Combs speaks at press convention, 24 October 2007, saying an alliance with Ciroc Vodka in New York. Sean Combs Enterprises will make branding choices 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 passed off 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 circumstances filed in opposition to the music and media large within the final 12 months and to Combs’ pending federal expenses of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, however stand out for being the youngest of Combs’ alleged victims up to now.
Within the first go well with, a John Doe plaintiff accuses Combs of assaulting him at a New York Metropolis resort in 2005 when the plaintiff was simply 10 years previous. The unnamed accuser, who at the moment resides in California, claims that he then had goals of changing into a rapper and/or actor. His dad and mom employed a profession marketing consultant to assist him, who urged that he fly to New York to satisfy with business energy gamers like Combs. In response to the submitting, when the plaintiff arrived, the marketing consultant organized for him to “audition” for Combs in a New York resort room. Throughout 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 medicine, “together with however not restricted to GHB and/or ecstasy.”
As soon as Doe felt unstable, the criticism states that Combs pushed the boy on the resort room mattress. Combs then pulled his penis out of his pants and informed 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 informed the plaintiff that he would damage his dad and mom if he informed anybody about what had occurred. The submitting states that the plaintiff did so anyway quickly after however, on the time, the household was so afraid 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 response to the go well with, the plaintiff noticed the chance on-line and thru newspaper adverts and believed this was his probability to interrupt into the music business. Throughout the audition course of, the plaintiff superior to a stage the place contestants met individually in personal 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 manage plaintiff’s future within the music business, stating that he had the power to make or break his profession,” the go well with particulars. Throughout one other interview with Combs, the plaintiff was instructed to get undressed and show he could possibly be a “intercourse idol” throughout the band. Combs then allegedly pressured 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 properly. In response to the go well with, “Combs framed this as a take a look at of Plaintiff’s willingness to do something vital 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 circumstances 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 saying 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 clear from his fixed press appearances and 1-800 quantity,” and said that they’ve full confidence in proving their consumer’s innocence by the judicial course of.
