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Sean “Diddy” Combs could quickly be going through new allegations from over 100 women and men who’ve obtained authorized illustration and plan to file civil fits towards the embattled media mogul within the coming weeks, in response to Houston-based legal professional Tony Buzbee.
Buzbee stated throughout a press convention on Tuesday his agency, The Buzbee Regulation agency together with the AVA Regulation Group, have been retained by at the least 120 people “to pursue circumstances in civil court docket” towards Combs and who contacted them after “claiming to be victimized by” Combs and different people or entities.
A number of the circumstances they intend to file, in response to Buzbee, will heart on allegations of violent sexual assault or rape, sexual abuse, facilitating intercourse with managed subtance, false imprisonment, compelling prostitution, sexual misconduct, dissemination of video recordings and sexual abuse of minors.
The musician and businessman was indicted on federal fees, together with intercourse trafficking, earlier this month. Combs has pleaded not responsible.
Buzbee stated that of the 120 individuals who’ve retained his agency, half of them are males and half are ladies and that 25 of those people have been minors on the time of the alleged incidents, which they stated occurred in Los Angeles, New York and Miami throughout events and, at occasions, music industry-related auditions.
“As Mr. Combs’ authorized workforce has emphasised, he can not handle each meritless allegation in what has turn into a reckless media circus. That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors,” Erica Wolff, an legal professional for Combs, informed CNN in an announcement on Tuesday.
Wolff added that Combs “seems to be ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court docket if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality might be established primarily based on proof, not hypothesis.”
The agency stated it plans to start submitting these circumstances inside the subsequent 30 days as they proceed a vetting and assortment of proof course of.
Greater than 55% of the victims “reported this conduct to both authorities, that’s the police, or to hospitals,” Buzbee stated, of which his agency is actively working to gather the information of studies made to authorities.
Buzbee additionally clarified that his agency shouldn’t be submitting a category motion lawsuit, slightly every case might be filed individually in varied states. Combs, he stated, will in some circumstances not be the one defendant cited on the civil fits, as Buzbee says different people and entities can also be named primarily based on the claims and the proof that they’ve collected.
Since final November, Combs has been hit with 12 civil fits, 11 of which straight accuse him of sexual assault. Combs has denied lots of the allegations towards him and settled one declare, however has not but responded to all the lawsuits that stay lively.
He’s at present incarcerated on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn, New York, the place he’s awaiting trial on three prison intercourse trafficking and racketeering fees after being indicted by a grand jury. Attorneys for Combs are appealing his detention, in search of his launch from jail as he awaits trial.
A supply previously told CNN that almost all of accusers who filed civil lawsuits had met with federal investigators throughout their months-long investigation. In March, Combs’ residences in Los Angeles and Miami have been searched by the Division of Homeland Safety Investigations.
After Combs’ arrest, authorities stated the investigation remains active and ongoing.