Three extra accusers have filed sexual assault lawsuits in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs alleging they had been drugged with spiked drinks after which raped by the rapper and music mogul in incidents courting as not too long ago as 2022.
The brand new lawsuits, first reported by TMZ, had been filed individually by way of a New York lawyer by nameless plaintiffs. The fits allege that the plaintiffs went to events with Combs, in two instances in resorts and the third at his mansion within the Hamptons, the place he gave them alcoholic drinks after which consuming they rapidly handed out and got here to when he was raping them.
Combs has denied all of the allegations and pleaded not responsible. His legal professionals informed TMZ that the three new lawsuits had been “stuffed with lies”. They added: “We are going to show them false and search sanctions in opposition to each unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims in opposition to him.”
The plaintiffs are all male and recognized in court docket paperwork solely as John Doe, in response to NBC Information. The assaults alleged within the filings occurred between 2019 and 2022.
One plaintiff alleged that his assault was filmed and he was subsequently given $2,500 in money by the person who operated the digital camera.
In a second submitting, a person alleges that Combs’ associates threatened him into remaining silent. NBC Information reviews that the third plaintiff alleges that in the summertime of 2020 he was taken by “associates” of Combs from the corporate he based, Dangerous Boy Data, to his East Hamptons residence.
On the celebration the person started feeling unwell and handed out. Combs and his associates then took turns in sexually assaulting and raping him, the lawsuit alleges.
The lads’s lawyer, Thomas Giuffra, a New York-based trial lawyer specialising in abuse instances, informed the Guardian that the three separate lawsuits described a “shockingly comparable sample.
“Combs would drug the individuals, they’d get up whereas he was raping them, and afterwards they’d be rushed out the door, obtain threats from individuals who labored for Mr Combs, and be frightened into silence.”
Giuffra stated that very same sample “occurred on each single one among these instances”. He added that he had acquired about 60 calls relating to instances in opposition to Combs and that “these are the three that we’re submitting at this level”.
The brand new lawsuits add to the mountain of accusations in opposition to Combs, who since September has been held in custody on the Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn on costs of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation for prostitution. He already faces sexual assault accusations from greater than two dozen civil lawsuits introduced on behalf of women and men claiming he abused them.
Final month, a New York decide denied Combs bail for the third time, describing him as a “critical danger” for witness tampering.
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