A thriller movie star is suing the lawyer representing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sexual assault accusers — claiming the high-powered Texas lawyer tried to extort him with threats of outing him as a violent “freak off” confederate, in keeping with a brand new lawsuit.
The Los Angeles-based star, recognized solely as “John Doe,” alleges that Tony Buzbee — who represents 120 of Combs’ alleged victims — demanded large bucks in alternate for conserving the movie star’s identify out of damning courtroom papers, in keeping with the swimsuit.
“[Buzbee] shamelessly tried to extort exorbitant sums from him or else publicly file wildly false horrific allegations towards him,” in keeping with the lawsuit, filed in LA Superior Courtroom.
The movie star alleges Buzbee despatched a requirement letter in October that “threatened to unleash fully fabricated and salacious allegations of sexual assault” if the star didn’t pay up, in keeping with the lawsuit, obtained by Newsweek.
These purported false allegations towards the movie star — a “good friend” of the disgraced music mogul who has attended star-studded occasions with him — embody “a number of situations of rape of a minor, each female and male,” in keeping with the courtroom papers.
“These baseless accusations are nothing greater than a weapon in a calculated plot to destroy [the star’s] high-profile popularity for revenue, regardless of the whole absence of any factual foundation for such claims,” the lawsuit states.
Buzbee, of Houston, denied the extortion accusation — saying he “received’t enable the highly effective and their high-dollar legal professionals to intimidate or silence sexual assault survivors.”
“The case filed towards my agency shouldn’t be solely with out authorized benefit, it’s laughable,” he wrote in an Instagram submit Tuesday.
“We despatched an ordinary demand letter to a New York lawyer that we all know represents an alleged perpetrator and potential defendant. The letters have been despatched searching for a confidential mediation in lieu of submitting a lawsuit,” he wrote.
“No amount of cash was included within the demand letters. No threats have been made.”
Combs was arrested in New York in September and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution at his infamous, allegedly drug-fueled “freak off” events.
Combs’ alleged sexual abuse of girls included forcing them to interact in frequent, days-long sexual exercise with male prostitutes, a few of whom have been “transported over state strains,” in keeping with Manhattan federal prosecutors.
He additionally stands accused of raping a 10-year-old and 17-year-old boy in a horrifying assault, in keeping with a Manhattan lawsuit.
No different stars have been talked about by identify within the greater than two dozen civil lawsuits filed by Buzbee on behalf of Combs’ alleged victims.
Combs has pleaded not responsible and repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
