’s legal troubles are piling up. While he has been at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
, awaiting trial on , the number of civil lawsuits against the hip-hop mogul has grown — and could soon swell to over 100. Combs, who pleaded not guilty in his criminal case and maintains his innocence, is currently the defendant in more than a dozen civil lawsuits filed in the past year. The first was brought against the embattled music producer by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in November 2023, .
He settled the case with the singer a day later, but it led to a barrage of others. Now Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee said he and a team of lawyers will be filing within the next month. At a , Buzbee announced that the 120 individual sexual assault lawsuits against the Bad Boys Entertainment founder are forthcoming.
The alleged assaults occurred between 2000 and 2020 in New York, Los Angeles and Miami at events including Combs’s famed “White Parties” as well as album release events and holiday parties.The alleged victims are male and female and ranged from age 9 to 38 at the time. “The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” Buzbee said at the press conference.
“The wall of silence has now been broken.” Buzbee also vowed to “expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates.
” Combs denied the allegat.