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Five new Sean “Diddy” Combs accusers, including a then-13-year-old girl, have filed civil suits against the embroiled music mogul.
The five new accusers include two John Does and three Jane Does, with assault claims from as far back as 2000 and as recently as 2022. One of the women claims she was assaulted at just 13 years old while attending an MTV Video Music Awards after-party in September 2000 by a 30-year-old Combs and an unnamed male celebrity while an unnamed female celebrity watched.
The lawsuits against Combs, 54, were filed in a New York federal court on Sunday by the Buzbee Law Firm and others, as part of the 120 alleged victims the firm announced would file suits against the producer earlier this month. Last week, the same firms filed six initial civil suits against Combs.
The others accusers include a businessman allegedly assaulted by Combs at a Ciroc promotional party in 2022, a personal trainer who claims Combs assaulted him at an award show after-party around that same year, a female independent rapper-producer said to be assaulted by Combs in 2022 and a woman who said she was assaulted by Combs at a Las Vegas party on Memorial Day weekend 2014.
The Sunday filings follow another suit, filed Wednesday, from a former college student who alleged Combs assaulted her after a “Da Band” promotional photoshoot in 2004 when she was 19 years old.
In response to the latest civil suits, Combs’ reps shared with USA TODAY late Sunday the same statement from the previous lawsuits filed by the Buzbee firm, claiming that the firm’s press conference and use of a 1-800 hotline is proof it is trying to “garner publicity” and that Combs “has never sexually assaulted anyone — adult or minor, man or woman.”
This new wave of legal action follows Combs’ September arrest and subsequent arraignment for sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution charges; he has pleaded not guilty and is set to face a criminal trial May 5. The rapper, who has maintained his innocence amid an avalanche of civil lawsuits filed over the past year alleging decades of sexual and physical abuse, remains in custody at the Special Housing Unit at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center.
