NEW YORK CITY– 3 guys filed a claim against Sean “Diddy” Combs in New York City on Thursday, asserting the hip-hop magnate drugged and raped them.
The claims, which were submitted anonymously in a state court, include in a wave of sexual assault litigation versus the rap artist, manufacturer and document exec as he additionally encounters federal sex trafficking charges in New York City.
Thomas Giuffra, a New york city lawyer that submitted Thursday’s claims on the guys’s part, stated Combs utilized his power and riches to benefit from the accusers and afterwards guaranteed their silence with hazards and concern.
” This is a long past due chance for the sufferers to take the power back after lugging the problem of the attacks in silence for a number of years,” he stated in a declaration. “While a legal action will certainly not reverse the misdoings done to them, it makes it possible for the survivors to gain back the power and self-respect that was removed from them by Sean Combs.”
Lawyers for Combs, 55-year-old owner of Poor Child Records, stated the insurance claims are unjustified.
” These grievances teem with lies,” the legal representatives composed in a declaration, decreasing to specify. “We will certainly show them incorrect and look for permissions versus every dishonest attorney that submitted imaginary insurance claims versus him.”
The claims include occurrences happening from 2019 to 2022. The guys, all recognized as John Doe, claim they were unsuspectingly offered drugged beverages and afterwards sexually attacked by Combs and others.
They each look for a court test and to be granted undefined problems from Combs.
Among the guys asserts Combs drugged and raped him in 2020 when both satisfied at Combs’ collection at the InterContinental resort in Times Square to go over settlements the male was owed as a long time worker of the business owner.
An additional asserts he satisfied Combs in 2019 at a Manhattan club and was welcomed to an afterparty at Combs’ collection at the Park Hyatt resort, where he was additionally drugged and raped.
The male stated he attempted to withstand prior to the drugged beverage left him subconscious. He additionally stated he was provided $2,500 after the strike by a male that had actually been taping the room attack.
The 3rd male insurance claims he was drugged and raped by Combs and partners from his document tag throughout a summertime event in 2020 at Combs’ estate in East Hampton, New York City.
Combs has actually begged innocent to government charges that he coerced and abused women for several years, making use of a network of partners and staff members to hold drug-fueled, elaborately created sex-related efficiencies referred to as “Fanatic Offs” entailing male sex employees.
District attorneys claim he after that silenced his sufferers with blackmail and physical violence, consisting of kidnapping, arson and physical poundings.
Combs has actually been looking for to be launched till his test in Might yet was denied bail a 3rd time last month and continues to be in a federal jail in Brooklyn.
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