The authorized instances towards Sean “Diddy” Combs proceed to escalate.
With the rapper behind bars after getting arrested final month on costs of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, 120 folks have now come ahead with new sexual assault allegations towards the mogul.
Perhaps most notable, and most heinous? One of those accusers is a 9-year previous boy.
On Tuesday, Houston-based lawyer Tony Buzbee held a press convention alleging Combs sexually abused a mess of minors.
The lawyer claimed one 9-year-old boy was abused after he auditioned on the Bad Boy Records Studio in New York City.
“Other boys had been there to audition as effectively,” Buzbee stated.
“All of them had been making an attempt to land a file deal. All of them had been minors. This particular person [the 9-year-old] was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and a number of other different folks on the studio with the promise to each his mother and father and himself of getting a file deal.”
Added Buzbee:
“We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doorways. We will pursue this matter regardless of who the proof implicates.”
The lawyer stated his group had “collected photos, video, texts,” which might expose, “Many highly effective folks … many soiled secrets and techniques.”
According to NBC News, Buzbee — who alleges that 25 of the aforementioned victims had been minors — plans to file the lawsuits within the numerous states over the subsequent 30 days.
These new allegations come within the wake of being accused of internet hosting what he and his mates known as Freak-Off events.
The federal indictment served final month claims that the artist organized “elaborate intercourse performances” throughout which ladies had been compelled via “drive, threats of drive, and coercion, to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male business intercourse employees.”
According to this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s houses earlier this 12 months had been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and infrequently “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting business intercourse employees “throughout state traces and internationally.
These gatherings had been frequent in nature and allegedly lasted for days.
As of this writing, Diddy stays in custody as a result of he was denied bail on September 17.
He has pleaded not responsible and denied the entire present costs towards him and awaits his standing listening to on October 9.
“As Mr. Combs’ authorized group has emphasised, he can’t tackle each meritless allegation in what has turn into a reckless media circus,” the star’s lawyer Erica Wolff stated in an announcement to E! News.
“That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors.
“He appears ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court docket, the place the reality shall be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”