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New lawsuits accuse Diddy of sexual assault, including of minor

The allegations in them against the now-54-year-old rapper known as “Diddy” span from 1995 until 2021, lawyers said.

They are part of a massive wave of suits promised by lawyers including Texas attorney Tony Buzbee, who said earlier this month that more than 100 alleged victims were planning legal action against Combs, who was arrested on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges last month.

“We expect to be filing many more cases over the next several weeks naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the filings,” Buzbee said in a statement Monday.

In the new suits, one accuser says Combs sexually assaulted him when he was 16, fondling his genitals in 1998 in the Hamptons just outside of New York City, at one of Combs’s infamous white parties.

At the time, Combs had insisted to the teenage boy that allowing such behaviour was part of what it took to break into the music world, allegedly asking him: “Don’t you want to break into the business?”