Indicted entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of raping and violently assaulting men, women and at least one minor, as detailed in a batch of civil lawsuits filed in New York federal court on Monday, dating to the mid-1990s, Courthouse News reports Represented by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, the anonymous plaintiffs filed suit under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act during a two-year window that suspends legal deadlines and allows sexual assault victims to sue over abuse that might otherwise be too old to pursue. Buzbee had announced he would be representing more than 100 plaintiffs in civil sexual assault lawsuits against the embattled hip-hop producer once known as P. Diddy. The complaints describe a pattern of violent sexual attacks by the 54-year-old mogul between 1995 and 2021, stretching further back in time than the recent federal indictment against Combs, which focuses on the period from 2008 to 2024. In one lawsuit, a John Doe plaintiff accuses the Bad Boy Records founder of fondling his penis during one of Combs’ famed “white parties” in the Hamptons in1998, when the plaintiff was 16.
The man says Combs pulled him into a private area near the portable bathrooms brought in for the party where the producer discussed his potential for breaking into the entertainment industry before demanding the teenager show him his penis. “Despite the pleasant conversation, which occurred, things took an unexpected turn for the worst,” he says in the complaint. “He instructed John Doe to drop his pants and expose his penis so that Combs could inspect it, explaining it was a rite of passage and the route to becoming a star, and also as a way to prove himself.” “Don’t you want to break into the business?” Combs is quoted as asking the during the incident. In another civil complaint filed Monday, a Jane Doe accused Combs of raping her on the floor of a bathroom in a Brooklyn dance club in 1995 during a promotional party for the release of the music video for Biggie Smalls’ hip-hop/R&B hit “One More Chance,” which Combs produced when he was then known to the public as Puff Daddy.
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