Diddy lawsuits 'to expose famous accomplices' says lawyer

A database of Sean "Diddy" Combs' alleged accomplices is expected to beryllium released arsenic portion of a caller bid of explosive lawsuits, with the attorney progressive claiming it includes household names.

Tony Buzbee, who is representing cases connected behalf of 120 alleged victims Combs, besides stated that helium plans to record lawsuits successful respective states crossed the US implicit the adjacent period and promised to uncover the names of those progressive astatine a aboriginal date.

The lawyer said: “The names volition daze you. The time volition travel erstwhile we volition sanction names different than Sean Combs, and there's a batch of names.

“It's a agelong database already, but due to the fact that of the quality of this case, we are going to marque damn sure, damn sure, that we're close earlier we bash that.”

He described the victims arsenic 60 males and 60 females, and that 25 were minors astatine the clip of the alleged misconduct. He said 1 idiosyncratic alleged helium was 9 years aged erstwhile helium was abused.

The allegations screen a play from 1991 to this year.

He told a quality conference: “This benignant of sexual assault, intersexual abuse, intersexual exploitation should ne'er hap successful the United States oregon anyplace else.

“This should person ne'er been allowed to spell connected for truthful long. This behaviour has created a wide of individuals who are injured, frightened and scarred.”

He claimed much than 3,280 individuals contacted his steadfast and helium was representing 120 of those, immoderate of whom person spoken to the FBI.

The individuals are said to beryllium from much than 25 states, with the bulk from California, New York, Georgia and Florida.

The alleged maltreatment took spot mostly astatine parties held successful New York, California and Florida wherever individuals were fixed drinks that were laced with drugs, Mr Buzbee said.

Other incidents took spot astatine auditions wherever "many times, particularly young people, radical wanting to interruption into the manufacture were coerced into this benignant of behaviour successful the committedness of being made a star," helium alleged.

A lawyer for Combs said the performer "cannot code each meritless allegation successful what has go a reckless media circus".

"That said, Mr Combs emphatically and categorically denies arsenic mendacious and defamatory immoderate assertion that helium sexually abused anyone, including minors," lawyer Erica Wolff said successful a statement.

"He looks guardant to proving his innocence and vindicating himself successful tribunal if and erstwhile claims are filed and served, wherever the information volition beryllium established based connected evidence, not speculation."

Other alleged victims person already filed lawsuits against Combs that see allegations of sexual assault.

Combs is 1 of the best-known euphony executives, producers and performers crossed hip-hop, having won 3 Grammys and worked with artists specified arsenic Notorious B.I.G., Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil Kim, Faith Evans and 112.

He founded Bad Boy Records in 1993, the influential manner enactment Sean John, a vodka marque and the Revolt TV network. He sold disconnected his involvement successful the second institution successful June of this year.