NEW YORK (AP) — Three males sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York on Thursday, claiming the hip-hop mogul drugged and raped them.
The lawsuits, which had been filed anonymously in a state court docket, add to a wave of sexual assault litigation towards the rapper, producer and document government as he additionally faces federal intercourse trafficking prices in New York.
Thomas Giuffra, a New York legal professional who filed Thursday’s lawsuits on the lads’s behalf, stated Combs used his energy and wealth to benefit from the accusers after which ensured their silence by means of threats and concern.
“This is a long overdue opportunity for the victims to take the power back after carrying the burden of the assaults in silence for several years,” he stated in an announcement. “While a lawsuit will not undo the wrongs done to them, it enables the survivors to regain the power and dignity that was stripped from them by Sean Combs.”
Attorneys for Combs, 55-year-old founding father of Unhealthy Boy Data, stated the claims are baseless.
“These complaints are full of lies,” the legal professionals wrote in an announcement, declining to elaborate. “We will prove them false and seek sanctions against every unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims against him.”
The lawsuits contain incidents happening from 2019 to 2022. The lads, all recognized as John Doe, say they had been unwittingly served drugged drinks after which sexually assaulted by Combs and others.
They every search a jury trial and to be awarded unspecified damages from Combs.
One of many males claims Combs drugged and raped him in 2020 when the 2 met at Combs’ suite on the InterContinental resort in Instances Sq. to debate funds the person was owed as a longtime worker of the entrepreneur.
One other claims he met Combs in 2019 at a Manhattan nightclub and was invited to an afterparty at Combs’ suite on the Park Hyatt resort, the place he was additionally drugged and raped.
The person stated he tried to withstand earlier than the drugged drink left him unconscious. He additionally stated he was given $2,500 after the assault by a person who had been recording the bed room assault.
The third man claims he was drugged and raped by Combs and associates from his document label throughout a summertime get together in 2020 at Combs’ mansion in East Hampton, New York.
Combs has pleaded not responsible to federal prices that he coerced and abused girls for years, utilizing a community of associates and workers to carry drug-fueled, elaborately produced sexual performances generally known as “Freak Offs” involving male intercourse staff.
Prosecutors say he then silenced his victims by means of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
Combs has been in search of to be launched till his trial in Might however was denied bail a 3rd time final month and stays in a federal jail in Brooklyn.
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