Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a wave of new allegations of sexual assault and rape.
NBC News has obtained five new civil lawsuits filed Sunday in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee. None of the plaintiffs are named in the lawsuits.
The five lawsuits include allegations that Combs sexually assaulted or raped the plaintiffs in separate incidents from 2000 to 2022. Two of the plaintiffs are men and three are women, including a woman who alleged Combs raped her when she was 13 years old, according to the lawsuits. .
Combs is also accused of drugging one of the men and the three women, according to the complaint.
Buzbee told NBC News he plans to file a total of seven lawsuits Sunday evening.
“We will let the allegations in the filed complaints speak for themselves and will do our best to ensure that justice is served,” Buzbee said in a statement on Sunday. “We anticipate that we will continue to file cases naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants on a weekly basis as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the files.”
Combs’ team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Buzbee filed six other lawsuits against Combs last Monday.
Combs, through his lawyers, denied all allegations in a statement last week.
“Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, their legal defense and the integrity of the judicial process,” the statement said. “In court, the truth will prevail that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, male or female.”
Combs is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. His criminal trial starts on May 5.
Federal prosecutors said at a hearing this month that they are reviewing records on more than 90 of Combs’ devices seized during raids on his properties this year and when he was arrested in New York.
Combs’ legal team filed a motion Tuesday asking his accusers in the federal sex trafficking case be publicly identified so he can prepare a proper defense.
Combs continues to fight his bail denial, with his lawyers recently filing an appeal to the federal appeals court in New York.
In the months after his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura filed a lawsuit against him — which was promptly settled — several people have sued Combs, including Dawn Richard, a former member of the girl group Danity Kane, who alleged that Combs groped, assaulted and imprisoned. and threatened her life.
Combs has denied all allegations against him.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
