MANHATTAN (CN) — Indicted entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused of raping and violently assaulting men, women and at least one minor, as detailed in a batch of civil lawsuits filed in New York federal court on Monday afternoon, spanning back to the mid-1990s.
Represented by Houston attorney Tony Buzbee, the anonymous plaintiffs all filed suit under the New York City Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act during a two-year window that suspends legal deadlines and allows sexual assault victims to sue over abuse that might otherwise be too old to pursue.
Earlier this month, Buzbee announced he would be representing more than 100 plaintiffs in civil sexual assault lawsuits against the embattled hip-hop producer once known as P. Diddy.
The Southern District of New York complaints describe a pattern of violent sexual attacks by the 54-year-old mogul between 1995 and 2021, stretching further back in time than the recent federal indictment against Combs, which focuses on the period from 2008 to 2024.
In one lawsuit a John Doe plaintiff accuses the Bad Boy Records founder of fondling his penis during one of Combs’ famed “white parties” in the Hamptons in 1998, when the plaintiff was just 16 years old.
He says Combs pulled him into a private area near the portable bathrooms brought in for the party where the producer discussed his potential for breaking into the entertainment industry before demanding the teenager show him his penis.
“Despite the pleasant conversation, which occurred, things took an unexpected turn for the worst,” he says in the complaint. “He instructed John Doe to drop his pants and expose his penis so that Combs could inspect it, explaining it was a rite of passage and the route to becoming a star, and also as a way to prove himself.”
“Don’t you want to break into the business?” Combs is quoted in the complaint asking the during the incident.
In another civil complaint filed Monday, a Jane Doe accused Combs of raping her on the floor of a bathroom in a Brooklyn dance club in 1995 during a promotional party for the release of the music video for Biggie Smalls’ hip-hop/R&B hit “One More Chance,” which Combs produced when he was then known to the public as Puff Daddy.
The plaintiff says Combs hit her to the ground after she asked him to slow down his advances and trapped her in a bathroom of the Elk’s Plaza club. “Disoriented and in pain, plaintiff tried to escape, but Combs hit her again, making it nearly impossible for her to move,” the plaintiff says in her complaint. “Combs then lifted her dress and raped her vaginally while she lay helpless on the floor.”
Another male plaintiff accused Combs in a separate civil suit of “orally raping” him in a stockroom at the Macy’s flagship store at Herald Square in Manhattan. The plaintiff, an Ecko Clothing employee at the time, recalled in the complaint that Combs was flanked by large bodyguards who brandished guns as they cornered him on his hands and knees in the stockroom.
He recalled Combs referencing Ecko Clothing, which was a competitor in the fashion world to his own Sean John Clothing brand, during the assault. “Suck my dick, Ecko,” Combs is quoted saying.
“While orally raping plaintiff, Combs grabbed plaintiff’s hair and made derogatory comments like, ‘You like that, white boy?’” the man says in his complaint.
The plaintiff says he was fired from the department store shortly after the assault because Macy’s had just signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Combs’ Sean John brand.
Combs is accused in another complaint filed Monday of raping a 19-year-old college student and her friend at Manhattan area Marriott hotel after meeting them at a promotional photoshoot downtown Brooklyn in 2004.
She recalls in the complaint one of Combs bodyguards telling her: “You know what you are here for,” when she asked him where they were going as they were being taken from the main room of a hotel suite afterparty into a separate bedroom.
“Combs continued getting gradually more aggressive with the two women and eventually began forcibly touch them without consent,” she accuses in her complaint. “When they resisted, Combs ordered Ms. Doe’s friend to perform oral sex on him or else he would have them both killed.”
Yet another male plaintiff accuses Combs in a separate suit of drugging him with GHB and then sodomizing him with other men while he was incapacitated. Gamma-hydroxybutyrate, a popular choice of nightclubbing drug, is labeled by the Department of Justice as “the number one sexual predator drug of choice.”
Buzbee said Monday he anticipates he and his co-counsel will be filing “many more cases over the next several weeks” naming Combs and others as defendants.
Representatives for Combs called Buzbee’s latest lawsuits a “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,” a spokesperson for Combs said in a statement Monday evening. “In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone — adult or minor, man or woman.”
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York indicted Combs over a sex trafficking conspiracy and unsealed the charges on Sept. 17 after Combs was arrested the same night in Manhattan. Combs faces three federal charges: one count of racketeering conspiracy; one count of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion; and one count of transportation for purposes of prostitution.
He was denied pretrial release on a proposed $50 million bail package. Two federal judges each raised concerns about the 2016 surveillance video from InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles showing Combs in a bath towel violently assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hallway, and his subsequent efforts to bribe hotel security to coverup the attack.
Last week, a federal judge set a May 2025 trial date for the sex trafficking case to begin.