Sean “Diddy” Combs Faces Claims Of Raping 13-Year-Old Girl In 2000 With Unnamed “Male & Female Celebrity” In Latest Round Of Lawsuits
(Updated with Combs’ team response) The presently incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs is approaching the first anniversary of Cassie Ventura’s quickly settled sexual assault and abuse case against him. Now, seven new lawsuits filed in the past few hours accuse the onetime music mogul of rape and more, including an attack on a teenage girl with other celebrities in the room and participating.
That lawsuit, from Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, who has already filed six previous jury-seeking suits against Combs for rape and more, was filed Sunday in New York federal court under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act. Buzbee has previously filed six jury-seeking suits against Combs for rape and more.
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“Looking for a place to rest, Plaintiff entered what she believed to be an empty bedroom so she could lie down for a moment,” reads the lawsuit by a now approximately 37-year-old Jane Doe, regarding her actions at a post-MTV VMAs party late on September 7, 2000.
The suit continues claiming that that the then 13-year-old Doe was feeling “woozy and lightheaded” after just one drink at the party.
“Soon after, Combs, along with a male and female celebrity, entered the room,” the 19-page action says. “Combs aggressively approached Plaintiff with a crazed look in his eyes, grabbed her, and said, ‘You are ready to party!'”
“Combs then threw Plaintiff toward another male celebrity, Celebrity A, who removed Plaintiff’s clothes as she grew more and more disoriented,” the lawsuit adds. “Plaintiff was held down by Celebrity A who vaginally raped her while Combs and Celebrity B, a female, watched. After the male celebrity finished, Combs then vaginally raped Plaintiff while the Celebrity A and Celebrity B watched. Combs attempted to force Plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, but she resisted by hitting Combs in the neck; he stopped.”
No more information is given about pair of celebrities, but it is no secret that Combs’ increasingly infamous white parties and other events attracted A-list crowds over the decades.
Once the alleged assault by Combs and the unnamed duo ended in this particular filing, the victim got out of the room, out of “the large white house with a gated U-shaped driveway” where the drug-fueled party was taking place, and eventually got in contact with her father who came to pick her up and take her home.
“After the assault, Plaintiff fell into a deep depression which continues to affect every facet of her life,” states the suit from Buzbee, who filed similar actions October 14 for four men and two women. With a 1-800 number supposedly ringing off the hook, the lawyer has said his Lone Star state office has 100 more alleged Combs victims on the verge of going public and to the courts.
With a total of 13 suits in the past week alone from Buzbee, and more expected in the next few days, it doesn’t look like the Texan is bluffing. In the second case in less than a week of Combs assaulting a minor, the more than half a dozen new civil cases from three woman and four men are seeking unspecified damages. Traversing from 2000 to just two years ago, the cases claim battery rape, false imprisonment, sexual harassment and rape by Combs and with others in cities like New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. All the cases say the alleged victims were required to sign restrictive NDAs before entering the parties and other events.
As in all the new jury-seeking suits, the one involving the then 13-year-old shows an “actual” exemplary container used by Combs and members of his team to spike people’s beverages with the often harsh GHB drug. Although Combs has denied all allegations against him from longtime ex-girlfriends Ventura and the now more than 20 other individuals who have claimed assault, abuse and more, the slipping of something that makes them “woozy and lightheaded” into guests’ drinks comes up repeatedly in the legal actions against the Bad Boys Records founder — including in the charges of sex trafficking Combs was arrested for by the feds on September 15 in New York City.
Representatives for Combs had nothing to say about these new lawsuits, except to refer Deadline to their statement of last week, which stated in part that “Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone—adult or minor, man or woman.” In that previous statement, Combs’ reps also called Buzbee and his initial six suits nothing more than a “clear attempt to garner publicity.”
However, as these half a dozen actions hit court dockets Sunday, Combs’ lawyers in his sex trafficking and more criminal case from the Department of Justice filed a letter to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian to issue “an order prohibiting further extrajudicial statements from prospective witnesses and their lawyers that substantially interfere with Mr. Combs’s right to a fair trial.” This gag order by any other name follows a move by the Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Geragos-led defense team to get prosecutors to reveal the names of Combs’ accusers and claims by the defense that Homeland Security agents leaked the 2016 L.A. hotel surveillance footage that showed Combs beating Ventura as she tried to escape one of her then-boyfriend’s so-called “freak offs.”
Twice denied pre-trial release on $50 million bail in the month since his arrest, and appealing in a long-shot third attempt, Combs sits in Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn facing life behind bars if found guilty at a trial set to start on May 5, 2025.
Of course, with other big names potentially coming out, Combs’ case could get notoriously bigger, or go to a plea deal before that trial date.
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