Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in one of two lawsuits filed on Monday of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a New York hotel room in 2005. The second lawsuit accuses the jailed hip-hop mogul of similarly assaulting a 17-year-old would-be contestant on the reality TV series Making the Band in 2008. The lawsuits filed in the state Supreme Court in New York are the latest in a wave of lawsuits in which accusers allege they were sexually assaulted by Combs at parties and meetings over the last two decades.
Combs’ lawyers denied the two new claims, which surfaced on Monday, accusing lawyer Anthony Buzbee, who also represents accusers in earlier lawsuits, of using the suits as a way to seek publicity. Sean Combs (Willy Sanjuan/PA) “In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor.” Combs, 54, is incarcerated in a New York City jail after pleading not guilty to federal sex trafficking charges contained in an indictment unsealed the day after his September 16 arrest.
Charges include allegations he coerced and abused women and silenced victims through blackmail and violence. The 10-year-old boy, who was not identified in the lawsuit, was an aspiring actor and rapper who had travelled with his parents from California for meetings with music industry representatives. During what was supposed to be an audition for Combs, he was given a drug-laced soda by a Combs’ associate and sexual.
