Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing a new wave of sexual assault and rape accusations.
NBC News obtained five new civil lawsuits filed Sunday in the Southern District of New York by Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee. The lawsuit does not name the plaintiffs.
The five lawsuits include allegations that Combs sexually assaulted and raped the plaintiffs in separate incidents between 2000 and 2022. Two of the plaintiffs are male and three are female, including a woman who claims Combs raped her when she was 13 years old. .
Combs is also suspected of drugging one man and three women, according to the complaint.
Buzbee told NBC News Sunday night that he plans to file a total of seven lawsuits.
“We will let the allegations in the complaint as filed speak for themselves and we are committed to ensuring that justice is served,” Buzbee said in a statement Sunday. “We plan to file a lawsuit each week against Mr. Combs and others as defendants, as we continue to gather evidence and prepare submissions.”
Combs’ team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Buzbee filed six more lawsuits against Combs last Monday.
Combs denied all charges in a statement through his lawyer 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: Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone, adult or minor, male or female.”
Combs is being held without bail at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges. His criminal trial is scheduled to begin on May 5th.
Federal prosecutors said in a hearing this month that they were examining data from more than 90 devices seized at Mr. Combs’ property during a raid and arrest in New York this year.
Combs’ attorneys filed a motion Tuesday asking for the accusers in the federal sex trafficking case to be publicly identified so they can prepare a proper defense.
Combs continues to fight his bail denial, and his lawyers recently filed an appeal with the Federal Court of Appeals in New York.
The settlement was quickly reached in the months after ex-girlfriend Cassandra Ventura filed a lawsuit against him, among them Dawn Richard, a former member of the girl group Danity Kane. Several people, including , have sued Combs, alleging that Combs molested, assaulted and imprisoned her. and threatened her life.
Combs denies all charges against him.
CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed.
