Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accused of sexually assaulting minors in two new lawsuits : NPR

Two extra sexual assault lawsuits have been filed in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs this week, each accusing the billionaire of grooming, sexual misconduct and retaliatory threats that occurred when the plaintiffs had been underaged. These two fits are separate filings however each assert that Combs abused his energy and affect, coercing minors into sexual exercise by promising them stardom within the music trade.

These fits add to the deluge of greater than 20 civil circumstances filed in opposition to the music and media big within the final 12 months and to Combs’ pending federal expenses of intercourse trafficking and racketeering, however stand out for being the youngest of Combs’ alleged victims to date.

Within the first go well with, a John Doe plaintiff accuses Combs of assaulting him at a New York Metropolis lodge in 2005 when the plaintiff was simply 10 years outdated. The unnamed accuser, who at the moment resides in California, claims that he then had desires of turning into a rapper and/or actor. His mother and father employed a profession advisor to assist him, who advised that he fly to New York to satisfy with trade energy gamers like Combs. In accordance with the submitting, when the plaintiff arrived, the advisor organized for him to “audition” for Combs in a New York lodge room. Throughout the assembly, the plaintiff was left alone with Combs and after performing just a few rap songs, Combs mentioned he may “make him a star.” The plaintiff was given a soda and, after consuming it, started to really feel dizzy. The plaintiff believes the drink was laced with medication, “together with however not restricted to GHB and/or ecstasy.”

As soon as Doe felt unstable, the criticism states that Combs pushed the boy on the lodge room mattress. Combs then pulled his penis out of his pants and informed the 10-year-old to “kiss it” earlier than forcing it into the boy’s mouth. The boy handed out from shock and concern. When the plaintiff regained consciousness, Combs was nonetheless within the room and the boy’s “pants had been undone, and his anus and buttocks damage badly.” Combs informed the plaintiff that he would damage his mother and father if he informed anybody about what had occurred. The submitting states that the plaintiff did so anyway quickly after however, on the time, the household was so frightened of the implications of reporting Combs, they didn’t come ahead.

Within the separate submitting, a John Doe sufferer claims that he was 17 years outdated when Combs repeatedly sexually assaulted him over a sequence of encounters. In or round 2008, the boy participated in a three-day audition for Diddy’s hit MTV competitors sequence, Making the Band. In accordance with the go well with, the plaintiff noticed the chance on-line and thru newspaper adverts and believed this was his probability to interrupt into the music trade. Throughout the audition course of, the plaintiff superior to a stage the place contestants met individually in non-public rooms with Combs and his bodyguard.

Throughout his first one-on-one interview with Combs, the plaintiff states that the mogul started to ask him hypothetical questions on responding to sexual stress. As he requested John Doe questions, Combs started to fondle the plaintiff’s genitals and masturbate. “Combs emphasised his energy to manage plaintiff’s future within the music trade, stating that he had the flexibility to make or break his profession,” the go well with particulars. Throughout one other interview with Combs, the plaintiff was instructed to get undressed and show he could possibly be a “intercourse idol” throughout the band. Combs then allegedly pressured the 17-year-old boy to carry out oral intercourse and sodomized him. Throughout a 3rd assembly, Combs allegedly launched the plaintiff to his bodyguard, named “T,” and compelled the boy to carry out oral intercourse on “T” as effectively. In accordance with the go well with, “Combs framed this as a take a look at of Plaintiff’s willingness to do something vital to achieve the music trade.” When the plaintiff would present hesitation, Combs mentioned he was not reliable. Quickly after performing oral intercourse on the bodyguard, the plaintiff claims he was eradicated from the audition course of and unable to realize entry into the music trade for a number of years.

These newest circumstances had been filed in New York’s Supreme Courtroom by the legislation agency of Tony Buzbee — the identical Texas-based agency that made headlines final month for saying that they might be representing greater than 100 alleged victims in opposition to Combs.

In response to those newest fits, Combs maintains, through his attorneys, that he has by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody — “man or girl, grownup or minor.” Combs’ authorized crew additional asserted that “the lawyer behind this lawsuit is inquisitive about media consideration moderately than the reality, as is clear from his fixed press appearances and 1-800 quantity,” and acknowledged that they’ve full confidence in proving their shopper’s innocence by the judicial course of.