A team of lawyers has announced it would be filing more than 100 sexual assault lawsuits against Sean Combs, a massive legal action that appears to have few if any precedents in the #MeToo era. The lawsuits would exponentially increase the number of sexual abuse accusations against the embattled music producer, commonly known by his stage name Diddy. “The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world,” said Tony Buzbee, one of the lead attorneys, at a news conference in Houston on Tuesday, US time.
“The wall of silence has now been broken.” Lawyers have announced they will file 120 lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Credit: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Plaintiffs will also be represented by Andrew Van Arsdale, who previously represented hundreds of victims in a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America.
He called the forthcoming filings “unprecedented in scope” in an interview with The Washington Post . Van Arsdale said Combs’ alleged victims include a roughly equal number of men and women, who ranged in age from nine to 38 at the time of the attacks. The alleged assaults span a 20-year period in the 2000s and 2010s, when Combs was at the height of his celebrity.
The victims felt compelled to come forward after Combs was arrested and denied bond last month, Van Arsdale said, saying that the criminal charges validated their experiences after many victims spent years blam.
