Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a wave of new sexual assault and rape accusations.
NBC News obtained five new civil lawsuits filed Sunday in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee. The lawsuits do not name any of the plaintiffs.
The five lawsuits include allegations that Combs sexually assaulted or raped the plaintiffs in separate incidents that occurred between 2000 and 2022. Two of the plaintiffs are men and three are women, including a woman who claimed Combs raped her when She was 13, according to the lawsuits. .
Combs is also accused of drugging one of the men and all three women, according to the lawsuits.
Buzbee told NBC News he plans to file a total of seven lawsuits Sunday evening.
“We will let the allegations contained in the filed complaints speak for themselves and we will work to see justice done,” Buzbee said in a statement Sunday. “We plan to file complaints each week naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants while continuing to gather evidence and prepare cases.”
Combs’ team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Buzbee filed six more lawsuits against Combs last Monday.
Combs, through his lawyers, denied all accusations in a statement last week.
“Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, in his legal defenses and in the integrity of the legal process,” the statement said. “In court, the truth will prevail: Mr. Combs never assaulted sexually anyone, adult or minor, man or woman.”
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Combs is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. His criminal trial is scheduled to begin on May 5.
Federal prosecutors said at a hearing this month that they were reviewing data from more than 90 devices belonging to Combs that were seized from his properties during searches this year and during his arrest in New York.
Combs’ legal team filed a motion Tuesday requesting that his accusers in the federal sex trafficking case be publicly identified so that he can prepare an adequate defense.
Combs continues to fight his denial of bail, with his lawyers recently filing an appeal in federal appeals court in New York.
In the months since his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura’s lawsuit against him — which was immediately settled — several people have sued Combs, including Dawn Richard, a former member of the girl group Danity Kane, who alleged that Combs l groped, assaulted and imprisoned. and threatened his life.
Combs has denied all allegations against him.
Dan Mangan, CNBC contributed.
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