Producer and rapper Sean Combs, known as P Diddy, has been hit with two lawsuits alleging he sexually abused a 10-year-old and a 17-year-old boy in the early 2000s. AP reports this.
One lawsuit accuses the rapper of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York City hotel room in 2005. The second lawsuit accuses him of a similar attack on a 17-year-old potential contestant on the reality show Making the Band in 2008.
The lawsuits were filed in the New York State Supreme Court. Combs' lawyers rejected the two new claims and accused plaintiffs' lawyer Anthony Buzbee, who also represents accusers in the earlier suits, of seeking publicity.
“Mr. Combs and his legal team have complete confidence in the facts and the integrity of the trial. "The truth will prevail in court: Mr. Combs has never committed sexual violence or trafficked anyone, man or woman, adult or minor," they said.
The trial of P Diddy, also known as Puff Daddy in the 90s, will begin in the spring of 2025; he was arrested in September. More than 120 private lawsuits have already been filed against him, accusing him of harassment, sexualized and physical violence, blackmail and threats. 25 of the plaintiffs were minors at the time, one of them was only nine years old. According to the plaintiffs' lawyers, when the names of their charges are revealed, it will "shock everyone."
P Diddy denies all charges except for beating his girlfriend Cassie Ventura at a hotel in 2016, which was caught on video. In turn, his lawyer, commenting on the trial, said that all the described cases were “by mutual consent.”