Six more civil lawsuits were filed on Sunday in New York against producer Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was arrested last month on federal sex trafficking charges.
Deadline reported that one of the accusers claimed she was 13 when Combs and a male celebrity raped her at a post-MTV VMAs party in 2000. The woman, now 37, said she felt “woozy” after having a single drink — leading Combs to grab her and say, “You are ready to party!”
According to the lawsuit, Combs and the male celebrity undressed the victim before the male celebrity raped her in front of Combs and a female celebrity. Combs allegedly also raped the victim while the two celebrities watched. The victim said Combs tried to force her to perform oral sex on him but stopped after she hit him in the neck, Deadline reported.
The lawsuit did not name the two celebrities involved in the alleged 2000 attack. The victim in that case is being represented by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee, who filed similar lawsuits last week on behalf of two men and four women who have also accused Combs of sexual abuse and rape.
According to Deadline, Buzbee said he has 100 accusers ready to go public or seek legal action against Combs.
In one of the lawsuits filed last week, a man said he was 16 when he was raped at Combs’ “White Party” in 1998. He claimed Combs asked him to expose himself after he spoke with Combs about his dreams of breaking into the industry. Combs allegedly then sexually assaulted him.
On September 16, Combs was arrested outside a Manhattan hotel on federal charges of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs has been denied bail twice, as Judge Andrew L. Carter determined he should remain in custody.
Combs’ legal team sought home detention with GPS monitoring. In exchange, they offered to post $50 million bail and to use Combs’ home as collateral.
“The government has proven the defendant is a danger. The bail package is insufficient even on risk of flight,” Carter said while denying Combs’ bail a second time.
In March, federal authorities raided Combs’ homes in Holmby Hills, California, and Miami. Reports indicated that the raid was connected to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation that resulted in his arrest months later.
The reported raids also occurred four months after his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accused him of sex trafficking and abuse. In a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, she alleged that Combs drugged her and forced her to have sex with other men. The pair settled the lawsuit a day after its filing.
However, in May, a video surfaced showing Combs assaulting Ventura at a California hotel in 2016. After the video was released, Combs put out a video expressing remorse for his behavior. That video is mentioned in the criminal charges filed this week against Combs.
Two more accusers came forward a week after Ventura’s lawsuit. One of the women claimed Combs drugged and raped her at Syracuse University in New York in 1991. Combs denied those allegations before a third accuser, Liza Gardner, levied similar allegations against him.
In that case, Gardner claimed Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall drugged and raped her and a friend following an Uptown Records event in 1990. Gardner said she was 16 at the time of the incident. She also accused Combs of choking her a day after the assault.
Days after footage of the 2016 assault was publicized, two more women filed lawsuits against Combs. One of those women was April Lampros, a New York Fashion Institute of Technology student who reportedly met Combs in 1994. Lampros accused Combs of sexually assaulting her on four instances between the mid-1990s and the early 2000s.
Lampros claimed Combs promised to mentor her and connect her with executives in the fashion industry. Instead, Combs allegedly forced her to drink before raping her in a hotel room. Lampros recalled another instance in which Combs forced her to perform oral sex on her in a parking garage while a parking attendant watched.
Combs has been accused of committing or facilitating sexual abuse in at least eight other lawsuits. He has denied those allegations. His federal trial is set to begin in May.
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