Homeland Security Investigations agents are seen at the entrance to the home of American producer and musician Sean “Diddy” Combs on Star Island in Miami Beach on March 25, 2024. Photo courtesy: AFP
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of raping women in a new wave of lawsuits filed on Monday (October 14, 2024). sexual harassment Molestation of men and 16 year old boy.
At least six lawsuits were filed against the hip-hop mogul in Manhattan federal court. They were filed anonymously, two by women identified as Jane Doe and four by men identified as John Doe.
The accusers are a group of more than 100 alleged victims who are in the process of taking legal action against Combs in the wake of his sex trafficking arrest last month, his attorneys say.
One of John Does, a man living in North Carolina, alleged that Combs fondled his genitals when he was 16 in 1998 at one of the rapper’s famous white parties in the Hamptons, Long Island.
The man alleges that during a conversation about possibly entering the music industry, Combs suddenly ordered the then-teen to take off his pants.
According to the man’s lawsuit, Combs explained to her that it was a rite of passage to become a music star, at one point asking her: “Don’t you want to get into the business?”
The man said he complied because of the fear, anxiety and power imbalance he felt with Combs, only to later realize that what happened was sexual assault.
Until Monday’s trial, Combs had only been charged in the civil cases and the criminal indictment of sexual activity with adults.
Combs’ attorneys and other representatives did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. When the planned lawsuits were announced on October 1, an attorney said that Combs “cannot address every baseless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus.”
Combs, 54, has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and sex trafficking charges and allegations that he coerced and abused women for years with the help of a network of associates and employees, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings. The victims were silenced through blackmail and violence.
Combs’ attorneys are unsuccessfully trying to get the Bad Boy Records founder freed on bail. He has been held in Brooklyn federal prison since his arrest on September 16.
Two judges concluded that Combs would be a danger to the community if released from the Metropolitan Detention Center, a facility that has been plagued by violence and dysfunction for years. At a bail hearing three weeks ago, a judge rejected a proposed $50 million bail package that would have included home detention and electronic monitoring, after concluding that Combs may have tampered with witnesses and continuing the investigation. Can hinder.
On Friday, an appeals court judge denied Combs’ immediate release from jail while a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals considers his bail request.
Other lawsuits filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan include allegations of rape, forced oral sex and drugging the victims to incapacitate them.
One of the Jane Does who sued Combs alleged that he raped her in a locked hotel room in 2004, after he invited her and a friend to a party, gave them drinks and asked them to snort cocaine. Asked for.
The woman, then a freshman in college, alleged that Combs also forced her friend to perform oral sex on her and said he would kill both of them if they did not comply with his demands.
The second Jane Doe alleged that Combs violently attacked and raped her in a bathroom at a party in 2005 for the late rapper Biggie Smalls’ music video, “One More Chance.”
According to the woman, Combs brought her into the bathroom to talk alone and then began kissing her unexpectedly. When she tried to move away, she alleged, he hit her head against the wall, causing her to fall to the floor. The woman said she tried to run away, but Combs hit her again and raped her.
Later, according to the woman, Combs casually adjusted her clothes and told her: “You better not tell anyone about this, or you’ll disappear.”
In another John Doe lawsuit, a man who worked as a security guard at Combs’ Hamptons white party in 2006 alleged that the star gave him an alcoholic drink that he believed was laced with drugs Due to which he was feeling very ill. The man alleges that Combs pushed him into a van, grabbed him and sexually assaulted him.
In other lawsuits filed Monday, Combs is accused of forcing a man to perform oral sex in the stockroom of the Macy’s flagship store in Manhattan’s Herald Square in 2008 and sexually assaulting a man at a party in October 2021. Suspecting that drugged beverages left her unable to fight back, several men attacked her and apparently saw Combs standing naked on top of her at one point during the attack, her lawsuit states.
published – October 15, 2024 01:01 am IST