As three males filed a trio of civil circumstances in New York at this time claiming that in separate, current incidents, every was drugged and raped by Sean “Diddy” Combs, the incarcerated rap mogul was granted a laptop computer, strictly for authorized functions, within the federal detention heart the place he’s being held forward of his trial.
State Supreme Court Judge Arun Subramanian dominated that Combs can be allowed entry to a laptop computer that might be pre-loaded with the invention supplies for his upcoming intercourse trafficking and racketeering trial. He can have entry to the recordsdata solely, “seven days per week from 8:00 a.m. to three:30 p.m,” the courtroom order states. Access to the laptop computer had been requested by the jailed mogul’s attorneys after he was denied bail for a 3rd time in late November.
The three circumstances filed on Thursday are notable not solely as a result of all of them allege the sexual assaults occurred from 2019 to 2022, or for the similarities within the accounts of what allegedly occurred between every man and Combs, but additionally as a result of they have been filed by a lawyer not related to Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee. His agency is representing nearly all of the civil lawsuits already filed towards the accused mogul.
“These complaints are filled with lies. We will show them false and search sanctions towards each unethical lawyer who filed fictional claims towards him,” attorneys for Combs informed The Hollywood Reporter in a press release.
One of the lads, who’s stored nameless within the authorized submitting, claimed to have joined Combs and 10 others on the Marquee nightclub in New York in 2019. At an afterparty, he claims he was personally handed a cocktail by the rapper. As he began to really feel woozy from the drink, the plaintiff allegedly heard chilling phrases he mentioned have been uttered by Combs to others within the room.
“He is able to celebration,” the plaintiff claims Combs mentioned.
The plaintiff mentioned that he drifted out and in of consciousness and noticed a person and lady recording him as he was being forcibly sodomized by Combs. When he regained consciousness, the plaintiff claimed he was handed $2,500 by the identical man and lady who reportedly filmed him being assaulted. The alleged sufferer mentioned he was informed that the money got here from Combs.
A second plaintiff mentioned that he met Combs in the summertime of 2020 at his East Hampton dwelling the place, after having what was meant to be an alcohol-based cocktail that was offered by Combs, he drifted out of consciousness. As he got here out and in of consciousness, he mentioned he noticed Combs and different people he knew from Bad Boys Entertainment as they “took turns raping him,” in line with the submitting, which calls Combs’ actions “surprising and outrageous” and passing “the affordable bounds of decency.”
The third plaintiff claimed within the submitting that he met Combs in 2006 when he started to work for the mogul, operating errands for him. It was in February 2020 that he mentioned he met Combs on the InterContinental Hotel in New York to debate unpaid wages. The man defined that he accepted a drink from Combs, who informed him to lie down and relaxation when he wasn’t feeling nicely. He famous that he wakened on his abdomen along with his pants pulled down because the mogul assaulted him. The plaintiff claimed he was informed he’d “appear to be an fool” if he have been to inform the authorities.
An e mail despatched to lawyer Thomas Giuffra, who’s representing the three John Does, was not instantly returned. Speaking with ABC News, Giuffra mentioned he discovered the similarities within the circumstances notable.
“It was a common factor. Come for a gathering, have a drink, you get woozy, you get up to Sean Combs raping you, you get ushered out the door. I used to be struck by the similarity,” he informed ABC News reporter Aaron Katersky. “I used to be contacted by in extra of 60 individuals. I solely selected to file these three to date as a result of I vetted them out. They’re very according to the sample that Sean Combs adopted.”
The particulars of those circumstances are strikingly much like a number of accounts in civil circumstances beforehand filed towards Combs and notably to accounts from Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, whose explosive allegations in a authorized submitting earlier this 12 months launched huge quantities of hypothesis across the mogul’s life-style and notorious events that has but to simmer down.
The circumstances are additionally much like the account of one other plaintiff who spoke with CNN in an interview this week. However, that interview revealed a number of inconsistencies in his account of what occurred between him and Combs and led Buzbee’s agency to file an amended authorized grievance correcting key info, together with the 12 months of the alleged assault and whether or not or not the plaintiff was married.
The mogul was arrested on Sept. 16 and charged with racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking. He is presently being held on the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, the place he’ll stay till his trial in May.
Combs pleaded not responsible to the felony prices on Tuesday, Sept. 17, in federal courtroom in Manhattan.
