Sean “Diddy” Combs has been hit with five more lawsuits accusing him of sexual violence.
Houston attorney Tony Buzbee filed the suits anonymously on Tuesday on behalf of three male accusers and two female accusers, all of who are requesting a jury trial. The move was part of more than 120 incoming lawsuits against Combs that Buzbee announced in October.
In a statement announcing the suits, Buzbee noted that the accusations in these five cases go back to 2001 and are alleged to have occurred in New York and Miami.
HuffPost obtained the documents for each of the lawsuits.
“Several other individuals are referenced in the case filings but are not at this time formally named as defendants,” Buzbee said. “We will let the allegations in the filed complaints speak for themselves, and will work to see that justice is done. We expect to be filing cases weekly naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the filings.”
One female accuser, who currently lives in Texas, claimed she was drugged at Combs’ Fourth of July Party in the Hamptons in 2004, at which point she was 17, and woke up after losing consciousness to “throbbing pains in her vaginal and anal areas.” She claimed that Combs and his bodyguards threatened her and said, “She would be in danger if she spoke about what had occurred, stating that he ‘ran New York and would ruin her.’”
The other female accuser, who resides in Maryland, claimed she and her two friends were drugged and forced to give oral sex to the men in the vehicle on the way to a Combs’ party in 2001. She said she “struggled with intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed, with symptoms of post-traumatic stress” after the alleged assault.
One male accuser claimed that Combs, a bodyguard and “a Caucasian man” who worked for Combs drugged him with a Diet Coke and raped him in October 2001, at which point he was auditioning for a role. The John Doe said the event led him to struggle with “intense emotional pain and mental health issues, feeling disgusted and deeply depressed.”
Another male accuser claimed he was drugged at an after-party in Miami in 2022. He also alleged that he awoke to Combs raping him.
The other male accuser, then 39 years old, also claimed that he was drugged and lost consciousness in 2022 at a house party. When the plaintiff awoke, “He was in a dark bedroom with black walls, on a bed with black sheets. Everything around him was dark. Plaintiff was horrified to find Combs on top of him, sodomizing him,” the lawsuit added.
A New York federal judge dismissed the case Wednesday, claiming that the Plaintiff was not permitted to file the suit anonymously.
The judge claimed that “such a proceeding must be commenced as a miscellaneous case with leave from the Court to proceed using a pseudonym.”
However, the case was refiled, Buzbee told HuffPost on Wednesday.
“One of the filings yesterday (John Doe = D W) was bounced for not being filed with a motion re: anonymity. It was refiled today alongside a motion (all the motions were filed today),” Buzbee said. “Same thing that happened with one of the original filings.”
(An unnamed “high-profile” celebrity sued Buzbee for extortion on Monday ― a claim that he denied.)
Buzbee has filed each of the lawsuits that name Combs as a defendant thus far with anonymous plaintiffs, according to ABC News. However, one judge in October ruled that an anonymous Combs accuser must provide her name because “defendants have a right to defend themselves” and “the people have a right to know who is using their courts.”
Buzbee claimed in a previous statement to multiple outlets that the case would move forward. He added that the intention behind filing the cases against Combs anonymously is to protect the accusers.
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“We have great respect for the court and its rulings,” Buzbee said. “Our job as counsel for these victims is to protect their safety the best we can, which is what we were trying to do by filing the cases anonymously. Anonymous or not, this case will proceed, period.”
In response to the newest allegations against Combs, his attorney Erica Wolff told HuffPost on Thursday that “Mr. Combs has full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone ― man or woman, adult or minor.”
Combs has been imprisoned at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, since his arrest in September. His arrest follows an onslaught of lawsuits accusing him of violence and/or rape, his indictment and arrest, and raids on his homes in Los Angeles and Florida.