Sean Combs hit with six more sexual assault lawsuits as legal team requests gag order

A second wave A prominent Houston attorney filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs Sunday night on behalf of at least five other accusers, including three people who claim Combs sexually assaulted them in 2022.

A man, a personal trainer, claims he was drugged the night the Bad Boy Entertainment founder was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2022 BET Awards. During the celebration after the party, the man claims that his unconscious body was passed around like a party favor [Combs’ guests] Enjoying sex.”

The anonymous plaintiffs — all of whom are using John or Jane Doe pseudonyms — are represented by attorney Tony Buzbee, who said he represents more than 120 clients against Combs. Last Monday, he filed the first batch of six cases against the mogul. In a statement, Buzby said he plans to file a total of seven lawsuits against Combs this week, bringing the total number of lawsuits against Combs to more than two dozen.

In light of the mounting civil lawsuits and explosive allegations, Combs' criminal defense team filed a motion Sunday night with U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, asking for a gag order that would “prohibit further extrajudicial statements from potential witnesses and their attorneys that are substantially intrusive.” with Mr. Combs' right to a fair trial.”

The new cases add to the 54-year-old's already extensive legal troubles as he awaits trial on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges in a Brooklyn jail. The controversial music mogul has pleaded guilty as his trial is set to begin next May.

Representative for Combs mentioned The Rolling Stones In a statement they issued last week, they called the “disruption” of Buzby's case a “clear attempt to gain publicity.” “Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, their legal defense and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, male or female,” said a statement from Combs' media team.

Sunday's new cases detail conduct that allegedly took place between 2000 and 2022. One lawsuit comes from a woman who claims she was 13 when she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs and an unnamed celebrity after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. (Buzby said the unnamed celebrities mentioned in the filings are not being formally added as defendants at this time.)

Two men and one woman claimed Combs assaulted them in 2022. The personal trainer claims she was invited to Combs' Holmby Hills mansion after the BET Awards and asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of entry to the after party. Once the paperwork was signed, the man was given a cocktail and ordered to take a few sips, the lawsuit said.

The man claimed he was brought to a small room where about a dozen people were engaged in group-sex activities. After entering the room, the man allegedly began to feel “unsteady, dizzy and weak.” As the man was “appreciating her significant handicap,” Combs allegedly approached her, “removed her pants and began performing non-consensual oral sex on her,” the suit claims.

Combs then allegedly ordered the man to perform oral sex with an unnamed celebrity, and the man was “unable to resist Combs' coercion and command” because of the “drug fumes,” the lawsuit states. The man claims he occasionally loses consciousness and eventually wakes up outside his apartment with no shirt, no phone and no idea how he got home.

Another plaintiff, a 29-year-old singer, claims she met Combs in December 2022 at a party in the New York City area. Throughout the star-studded bash, the woman claimed she noticed widespread drug use, which was allegedly pushed on guests by people working for Combs.

Combs was the night's host and allegedly approached the singer, struck up a conversation about her career and offered to feature her on a track. At one point, Combs suggested they visit his office to discuss his music more privately, the lawsuit claims.

The singer claimed that despite only having one glass of wine, she started to feel disoriented. Once alone in the office and “under the influence of his narcotics, Combs raped and sexually assaulted Plaintiff,” the suit claims. “The plaintiff could not prevent him from doing so, as if he were trapped inside his body not participating but unable to resist.”

The woman claimed she woke up the next morning with blood on her legs, bruises on her lips and marks on her arms and wrists, leading her to believe she had been tied up with ropes. “As a result of this incident, the plaintiff has suffered significant emotional distress and trauma,” the suit claims “He continues to deal with the emotional and psychological consequences of the attack.”

A second person claims that Combs sexually harassed her during a Ciroc promotional event in 2022. The Los Angeles-area businessman claims he knew Combs through renting the mogul luxury cars and fine jewelry. He attended the event to further network, and at one point, Combs allegedly brought the man back to his private office, as he believed it was a business conversation. “Acting drunk and weird,” Combs allegedly exposed herself before touching the man's genitals, according to the complaint. “The situation escalates to another person, A professional athlete, entered the office and intervened, which ended Combs' assault,” the suit claims.

A fourth woman claims she met Combs in Las Vegas over Memorial Day weekend in 2014, including photos of Combs during an after party as part of her filing. After taking a few sips of her Ciroc vodka drink provided by Coombs, the woman claims she began to feel nauseous and dizzy.

“The next thing plaintiff remembers was waking up the next morning feeling very groggy and in pain,” the suit claims. “His whole body ached, and it was difficult to move. When he woke up, he found Combs in the corner of the room shirtless and screaming loudly and with someone on the phone with animation.” The woman claimed she was “horrified to realize she had been raped by Combs.”

While Buzbee and his co-counsel, Andrew Van Arsdale, filed their first dozen lawsuits against Combs in federal court in the Southern District of New York, they filed one late Sunday in Manhattan Supreme Court on behalf of a man who says Combs assaulted him. Inside a Harlem music studio in 2005. John Doe alleged that he was 21 years old and the owner of a private security firm when Combs spiked his drink, got into his pants and “tried to masturbate.” [the man’s] gender.”

Buzbee and Van Arsdale filed their initial round of lawsuits after announcing at a news conference last week that they had at least 120 clients with what they said were verified claims against the music mogul. One of the lawsuits was from a man who claimed that Combs grabbed her penis and groped her when she was 16 and attended one of Combs' “white parties” in the Hamptons in 1998. Two women and two men filed separate complaints in another case. that Combs sexually assaulted them between 1995 and 2021.

Last Tuesday, Combs' lawyers filed a letter with a federal judge to order prosecutors to release the names of the alleged victims in his criminal case. They argued that Combs needed to know the names as soon as possible to prepare for his May 2025 trial and because he needed to identify any overlap between the accused behind the civil case and those involved in his criminal case. They said the clarification was needed so they could respond to Combs' civil complaint without violating rules governing what they can say about criminal cases.

“The government is forcing [Combs]unfairly, to play a guessing game,” the four-page letter, signed by Combs' lawyers Mark Agnifilo and Tenny Geragos, and obtained by The Rolling Stonesread on In the letter, Combs' attorneys said the government “opposes the release of the names of the alleged victims at this stage.” A pre-trial hearing in the case is set for December 18

In his criminal complaint, Combs is accused of “assaulting, threatening and coercing” unidentified “women and others around him” to satisfy his sexual desires. The filing states that Combs engaged in “persistent and widespread abuse of women and other individuals,” including “verbal, emotional, physical and sexual” abuse. Combs allegedly distributed drugs to keep his alleged victims compliant and compliant. Prosecutors were vague on the dates and details of the alleged abuse involving individuals other than Combs' ex-girlfriend Cassandra “Casey” Ventura, who was identified as Victim 1.

If convicted as charged, Combs faces a minimum of 15 years in prison and life in prison. Even with good behavior, the one-time billionaire founder of Bad Boy Entertainment will likely be behind bars until at least his late 60s.

Before the first round of Buzby cases, Combs had already faced dozens of other complaints filed in the past year alleging he sexually assaulted people during his decades-long career as an industry impresario and janitor. The deluge began last November when Ventura filed her graphic sex-trafficking complaint. Combs settled with Ventura for an undisclosed sum within 24 hours, but his 35-page complaint, now the focus of the music mogul's criminal trial, opened the floodgates. Combs' home was raided in March, and in May, CNN obtained chilling hotel surveillance video showing Combs throwing, kicking, stomping and dragging Ventura in the hallway of the InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles in 2016. After initially denying Ventura's claims against him, Combs issued a video apology related to the incident, admitting that “his behavior in that video was inexcusable.”