Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing dozens of new allegations of sexual assault in a series of lawsuits set to be filed by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, who said he is representing 120 accusers with allegations against the entertainment mogul that go back more than 20 years, ABC reports. “We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates,” Buzbee said during a news conference. “Many powerful people ... many dirty secrets,” the lawyer said of the allegations. He added that his team has “collected pictures, video, texts," and said that the allegations will include: “violent sexual assault or rape, facilitated sex with a controlled substance, dissemination of video recordings, sexual abuse of minors.” The lawyer said more than 3,000 individuals have come forward to his office with accusations against Combs and that he plans to begin filing lawsuits in various states within the next 30 days.
Among this new group of accusers, Buzbee said, 62% identify as African American, and they hail from more than 25 states, with the majority from New York, California, Georgia and Florida. Buzbee said that 25 of the accusers were minors at the time of the alleged incidents, some as early as 1991, and claimed one of the accusers was as young as 9 years old at the time of their alleged incident. “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus," the rapper’s lawyer, Erica Wolff, said in a statement. "That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors. He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court if and when claims are filed and served, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.” Combs is currently being detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, after prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged Combs with sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution in an indictment unsealed last month. He pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have said he is innocent of all charges.
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