A lawyer who plans to file a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs on behalf of 120 alleged sex abuse victims says a hotline he set up to handle other cases was flooded of 12,000 calls in approximately 24 hours.
Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee went public with the hotline earlier this week when he revealed that a new wave of accusers — including one who was just 9 years old at the time — planned to sue music mogul in trouble for alleged sexual abuse and exploitation.
Since then, the hotline has exploded with calls from people making similar complaints against Combs, the attorney told Law&Crime in an interview Wednesday.
“According to the press conference we had yesterday, we received 12,000 calls in about 24 hours,” Buzbee said.
“So our Herculean task is to try to sift through each of these calls and make sure that we identify victims and witnesses and collect evidence.”
He added: “We have almost 100 people working on this task. »
The lawyer said his team was trying to ensure claims made by other alleged victims – in addition to the 120 cases already identified – were airtight before taking further action.
“The 120 that we announced yesterday are complaints that we could file right now against Sean Combs, but we’re trying to make sure that when we file the complaints…we include all potentially responsible parties,” Buzbee told the outlet .
The hotline revelation came after the lawyer told a news conference that the new wave of complaints filed by 120 accusers was allegedly split evenly by gender, spanned three decades and involved 25 minors, including a child who was only 9 years old at the time.
The children allegedly abused by the rapper “were looking for a career in television or music with the promise of ‘I’ll make you a star,'” the lawyer said.
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Buzbee publicly claimed that the alleged assaults would involve “many powerful people” and reveal “many dirty secrets.”
Most of the new lawsuits are expected to be filed in New York and Los Angeles over the next month, Buzbee said.
The allegations are the latest in a wave of accusations against the Bad Boy Records founder following his arrest on sex trafficking charges in New York late last month.
The federal indictment unsealed last month detailed disturbing allegations that Combs manipulated and drugged women into participating in “Freak Offs” — or violent sex sessions that were sometimes recorded against their will.
Combs, who is currently being held without bail in a federal prison in Brooklyn, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Its representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday morning.
