Sean “Diddy” Combs faces more lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of minors

When the latest round of sexual misconduct lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs were filed last week, attorney Tony Buzbee promised that many more were on the way. In fact, Buzbee and Andrew van Arsdale filed seven more lawsuits on behalf of the plaintiffs Sunday night, including one that alleges Combs “drugged and raped a 13-year-old girl at a house party,” ABC News reports.

According to the lawsuit, the alleged victim was 13 years old when she attempted to enter the Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on September 7, 2000. She made contact with Combs’ limo driver, who told her, “Combs liked younger girls and said she ‘fit what Diddy was looking for.’” She didn’t show up to the awards show, but was directed to an afterparty, where she says she was given a spiked drink. After she found a room to lie down, she said Combs and others followed her into the room. Two other figures identified as Celebrity A and Celebrity B would also be present. Celebrity A is said to have “held her down and vaginally raped her while Combs and Celebrity B, a woman, watched.” After the male celebrity finished, “Combs vaginally raped Plaintiff while Celebrity A and Celebrity B watched.”

One of the other lawsuits filed Sunday involves a 17-year-old boy who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted during a party at a New York City hotel in 2022. “Combs assured Doe that he could make him a star,” the lawsuit says. After accepting a drink, “he felt dizzy, weak and confused, far beyond what he would expect from having consumed a single drink. It was clear to him that something was wrong. He realized later that he was drugged.” He says Combs groped his genitals “for an extended period of time, trying to arouse him.” The new round of lawsuits includes multiple filings from adult men with similar allegations about Combs touching their genitals.

Combs’ team responded to ABC by pointing them to a new filing in his criminal case, in which they argue that “potential witnesses and their attorneys have made numerous inflammatory extrajudicial statements intended to assassinate Mr. attorneys for the plaintiffs in the lawsuits against Combs, who “made shockingly harmful and false allegations of sexual assault and child abuse.”

If you or someone you know is experiencing sexual abuse, visit rainn.org or contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.