Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a brand new lawsuit.
The rapper, 54, allegedly assaulted the boy in a New York Metropolis lodge room in 2005.
A second new lawsuit accuses the jailed hip-hop mogul of assaulting a 17-year-old would-be contestant on the fact tv collection Making the Band in 2008.
They’re the most recent in a wave of lawsuits through which accusers allege they had been sexually assaulted by Combs at events and conferences over the past 20 years.
Combs’ legal professionals denied the 2 new claims and accused the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, of in search of publicity. Mr Buzbee says he’s representing greater than 150 of the rapper’s alleged victims, and has filed not less than 17 lawsuits.
Combs is at present in a New York Metropolis jail after pleading not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking fees contained in an indictment unsealed after his arrest on 16 September.
He’s accused of coercing and abusing girls, in addition to silencing victims by way of blackmail and violence.
The ten-year-old boy, who was not recognized within the lawsuit, was an aspiring actor and rapper who had travelled along with his dad and mom from California for conferences with music trade executives.
He was given a drug-laced delicate drink by an affiliate of Combs throughout what was presupposed to be an audition.
Combs pushed him down, and compelled him to carry out oral intercourse earlier than he misplaced consciousness, the lawsuit says.
The rapper threatened to badly damage the kid’s dad and mom if he advised anybody what occurred, the go well with stated.
The 17-year-old unidentified male stated Combs pressured him to carry out oral intercourse with the music mogul and a bodyguard throughout a three-day audition for the Making the Band tv present, which Combs produced.
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What’s P Diddy accused of?
Combs framed the latter as a “test” of how a lot {the teenager} needed to reach the music trade.
When he expressed considerations, the 17-year-old was eradicated from the competitors and unable to return to the music trade for seven years, in response to the submitting.
Each lawsuits had been introduced beneath New York Metropolis’s Victims of Gender Motivated Violence Safety Act, which permits survivors to deliver lawsuits even when the statute of limitations has handed.
Combs’ legal trial is scheduled for five Might, 2025.
