New complaints have been filed against Sean Combs, known as P. Diddy, including one accusing the rapper and influential American hip-hop producer of sexual assault on a minor, a lawyer said Monday, October 14.
These civil complaints – filed in New York by six people – are part of the series of proceedings involving more than 100 alleged victims recently announced by an American lawyer, following the indictment and incarceration in September of Sean Combs.
The latter is criminally accused of having run a violent system of sex trafficking and extortion for years.
“We expect to file numerous additional complaints in the coming weeks against Mr. Combs and other defendants.”warned Monday in a press release this lawyer, Me Tony Buzbee.
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These complaints filed by two women and four men whose identities are not revealed cover a period from 1995 to 2021, according to the lawyer. A complainant claims that the artist sexually assaulted him when he was 16, touching his genitals, in 1998 near New York, during a party organized by the producer, also called P. Diddy or Puff Daddy and now aged 54. At the time, Combs reportedly explained to the teenager that he had to accept this type of behavior “to break into the industry” music.
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Sex trafficking trial in 2025
At the same time, the producer will have to respond in May 2025 during a criminal trial at the federal level for having, according to the prosecution, put his « empire » musical in the service of a violent system of trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation and extortion. Sean Combs has pleaded not guilty and says he is innocent.
An essential and bling-bling figure in American east coast hip-hop, Diddy has seen his star fade since the revelation in the fall of 2023 of several complaints, including accusations of rape of R & B singer Cassie, a procedure which was ultimately settled amicably.
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Complainants described him as a violent sexual predator who used alcohol and drugs to obtain their submission.
The rapper has denied these accusations.
With his label Bad Boy Records, founded in 1993, Sean Combs contributed to the inclusion of hip-hop in global popular culture by bringing to the fore Mary J. Blige or Notorious BIG, who died in 1997.
Sex trafficking: what is rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs accused of? Understand in three minutes
New York justice suspects Sean Combs aka Diddy (Puff Daddy or P. Diddy) of having set up a sex trafficking and extortion system.
To date, more than a hundred victims, men, women, sometimes minors at the time of the events, have accused the music producer of sexual assault. The oldest incidents date back to the early 1990s.
It was the accusations of his ex-partner Cassie which opened the way, at the end of 2023, and revealed the alleged existence of a sex trafficking system based on the organization of “freak off”. Nights of sexual orgy during which Diddy allegedly forced the victims to use drugs and have sex with sex workers.
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