Sean “Diddy” Combs has called for the government to identify his alleged accusers, including one man who alleged the rapper molested him as a child.
In legal documents filed with the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, October 15, and obtained by Us Weekly, lawyers for Diddy, 54, hit back at a new wave of lawsuits that allege fresh sexual assault claims against the rapped including the alleged molestation of a 16-year-old boy.
“Yesterday alone, anonymous accusers filed an additional six lawsuits,” the documents read, referring to filings made by two unidentified women and four unidentified men in a Manhattan federal court on Monday, October 14. “Counsel for these accusers recently convened a press conference (prior to filing) at which he claimed to represent 120 accusers making outrageous and deeply prejudicial allegations, including violent sexual assault and sexual abuse of minors.”
Diddy’s legal team, consisting of Marc Agnifilo, Teny R. Geragos, Anthony Ricco, Alexandra Shapiro and Anna Estevao, detailed that Diddy himself — not just parties working on his behalf — requested that the accusers’ names be released. “Mr. Combs asked the government to identify its alleged victims,” the documents read.
Diddy is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York after he was arrested on September 16 and indicted on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering.
In Monday’s filing by the new accusers, lawyers stated that the lawsuits detailed just six out of a group of more than 100 alleged victims who are in the process of seeking legal action against Diddy. The suits alleged “aggravated sexual assault, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation,” against Diddy and his affiliates.
Among the allegations was one man, currently living in North Carolina, who claimed that Diddy fondled him at a Hamptons white party hosted in 1998. The man claimed he was a teenager at the time and alleged that the apparent assault took place while he and Diddy were having a conversation about the music industry.
Diddy’s lawyers responded to the lawsuits with a statement on Monday evening: “The press conference and 1-800 number that preceded today’s barrage of filings were clear attempts to garner publicity. Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, their legal defenses, and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone—adult or minor, man or woman.”
In the legal team’s request for the alleged victims’ names to be released, they wrote that, “These swirling allegations have created a hysterical media circus that, if left unchecked, will irreparably deprive Mr. Combs of a fair trial, if they haven’t already.”
The documents also argued that Diddy has “no way of knowing which allegations the government is relying on for purposes of the Indictment.” It noted that without the accusers’ names being released, the government “is forcing him [Diddy], unfairly, to play a guessing game.”
A start date of May 5, 2025, was confirmed for Diddy’s trial during a court hearing on Thursday, October 10.
Diddy has pleaded not guilty to a barrage of charges, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution following his arrest on September 16. He filed his third appeal for pretrial release on October 8, which was deemed unsuccessful by Judge Arun Subramanian two days later.
A 14-page indictment released the day after his arrest accused Diddy of abusing, threatening and coercing women “to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation and conceal his conduct” for years.
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