Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives on the LA Premiere of “The 4: Battle For Stardom” on the CBS Radford Studio Middle on Might 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Picture by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in one in all two lawsuits filed Monday of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York Metropolis resort room in 2005.
The second lawsuit accuses the jailed hip-hop mogul of equally assaulting a 17-year-old would-be contestant on the truth tv collection “Making the Band” in 2008.
The lawsuits filed in state Supreme Court docket in New York are the most recent in a wave of lawsuits through which accusers allege they have been sexually assaulted by Combs at events and conferences during the last 20 years.
Combs’ legal professionals denied the 2 new claims Monday and accused the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Anthony Buzbee, who additionally represents accusers in earlier lawsuits, of in search of publicity.
“Mr. Combs and his authorized staff have full confidence within the information and the integrity of the judicial course of,” an emailed assertion stated. “In court docket, the reality will prevail: that Mr. Combs by no means sexually assaulted or trafficked anybody—man or girl, grownup or minor.”
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Combs, 54, is incarcerated in a New York Metropolis jail after pleading not responsible to federal intercourse trafficking prices contained in an indictment unsealed the day after his Sept. 16 arrest. Prices embrace allegations he coerced and abused ladies and silenced victims by blackmail and violence.
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The ten-year-old boy who was not recognized within the lawsuit was an aspiring actor and rapper who had traveled along with his mother and father from California for conferences with music trade representatives. Throughout what was speculated to be an audition for Combs, he was given a drug-laced soda by a Combs’ affiliate and sexually assaulted by the Dangerous Boy Information founder, in response to the lawsuit.
The boy finally misplaced consciousness. When he awoke, Combs threatened to badly harm the kid’s mother and father if he advised anybody what occurred, the submitting stated.
In a second lawsuit, a 17-year-old unidentified male stated Combs compelled him into sexual acts with Combs and a bodyguard throughout a three-day audition for the “Making the Band” tv present, which Combs produced.
When the aspiring contestant expressed reservations, he was eradicated from the competitors and unable to return to the music trade for seven years, in response to the submitting.
Each lawsuits have been introduced beneath New York Metropolis’s Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act, which permits survivors to carry lawsuits even when the statute of limitations has handed.
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