Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces 7 more lawsuits, laments ‘fresh wave of publicity’

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Seven caller lawsuits person been filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs, including 1 alleging the rape of a 13-year-old girl. They travel arsenic his lawyers tried again Monday to get him freed connected bail — and complained that a “fresh question of publicity” is endangering his close to a just transgression trial.

In the lawsuits filed Sunday successful authorities and national courts, 4 men and 3 women, each anonymous, allege they were sexually assaulted by Combs astatine parties implicit the past 2 decades.

Combs, 54, has pleaded not blameworthy to federal enactment trafficking charges contained successful an indictment unsealed the time aft his Sept. 16 arrest. Charges see allegations helium coerced and abused women for years, aided by associates and employees, and silenced victims done blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and carnal beatings.

He has remained incarcerated pending a May 5 proceedings aft 2 judges denied bail successful rulings being appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Combs’ lawyers asked a justice Sunday to bid imaginable witnesses and their lawyers to halt making statements that could forestall a just trial.

“As the Court is aware, Mr. Combs has been the people of an unending watercourse of allegations by prospective witnesses and their counsel successful the press,” they wrote. “These prospective witnesses and their lawyers person made galore inflammatory extrajudicial statements aimed astatine assassinating Mr. Combs’s quality successful the press.”

The latest lawsuits are drawn from what lawyers accidental are more than 100 accusers who are readying ineligible enactment against Combs. Plaintiffs’ lawyer Tony Buzbee announced the planned litigation astatine an Oct. 1 quality league and posted a 1-800 fig for accusers to call.

As before, Combs’ representatives dismissed the latest lawsuits arsenic “clear attempts to garner publicity.” They said Combs and his ineligible squad “have afloat assurance successful the facts, their ineligible defences, and the integrity of the judicial process.”

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Combs “has ne'er sexually assaulted anyone — big oregon minor, antheral oregon woman,” they added.

One of the lawsuits filed Sunday alleges that a 13-year-old miss who was invited to a enactment by a limousine operator aft the Video Music Awards successful Manhattan successful September 2000 was raped by a “male celebrity” and past by Combs arsenic individuals identified lone arsenic “Celebrity A,” a male, and “Celebrity B,” a female, watched.

Another suit alleged that Combs sexually assaulted a 17-year-old antheral astatine a Manhattan edifice penthouse enactment successful 2022.

In the lawsuits, it was alleged that the plaintiffs believed they had been fed drinks laced with drugs earlier they were assaulted.

Meanwhile, lawyers for Combs connected Monday told the 2nd Circuit successful a filing that he’ll renew his bail exertion earlier the little tribunal based connected “significant changed circumstances.” They said the issues see “constitutional concerns stemming from his conditions of confinement and grounds contained successful precocious produced discovery.”

In a filing past week, prosecutors told the appeals tribunal that judges denied bail aft grounds showed Combs “used methodical and blase means to soundlessness and intimidate witnesses passim the racketeering conspiracy and during the Government’s investigation.”

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