(CNN)- Sean “Diddy” Combs may soon face new allegations from more than 100 men and women who have obtained legal representation and a civil suit against the embattled media mogul in the coming weeks, according to Houston-based attorney Tony Buzbee. Planning to file a lawsuit.
Buzbee said at a news conference Tuesday that his firm, The Buzbee Law Firm, along with AVA Law Group, had “hired at least 120 people” to file civil court claims against Combs and that they ” After making the claim” he was contacted. Victims of Combs and other individuals or entities.
According to Buzbee, some of the cases they plan to file include violent sexual assault or rape, sexual exploitation, facilitating sex with controlled substances, false imprisonment, forced prostitution, sexual misconduct, dissemination of video recordings and sexual assault. The focus will be on allegations of exploitation. Kishore.
The musician and businessman was indicted earlier this month on federal charges including sex trafficking. Combs has pleaded not guilty.
Buzbee said that of the 120 people his company employs, half are men and half women, and 25 of them were minors at the time of the alleged incidents, which he said occurred during parties in Los Angeles, New York and Miami. There were auditions and, occasionally, auditions related to the music industry.
“As Mr. Combs’s legal team has stressed, this cannot address all of the baseless allegations that have become a reckless media circus. “As stated, Mr. Combs strongly and unequivocally denies as false and defamatory any claims that he sexually abused anyone, including minors,” Combs’ attorney Erica Wolfe said in a statement Tuesday to CNN. Told to.
Wolfe said Combs “looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, if and when a lawsuit is filed, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
The firm said it plans to begin filing these lawsuits in the next 30 days as they continue the investigation and evidence gathering process.
More than 55% of victims “reported this behavior to authorities, i.e. police or hospitals,” Buzbee said. The company is actively working to compile records of complaints made to the authorities.
Buzbee also clarified that his company will not be filing a class-action lawsuit, but rather each case will be filed individually in multiple states. In some cases Combs won’t be the only defendant named in civil lawsuits, as Buzbee says other people and entities may also be named based on the complaints and evidence they collect.
Since last November, Combs has been the subject of 12 civil lawsuits, 11 of which directly accuse him of sexual assault. Combs has denied many of the allegations against him and settled one lawsuit, but he has not yet responded to all active lawsuits.
He is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, where he awaits trial on three counts of sex trafficking and criminal conspiracy after being indicted by a grand jury. Combs’ lawyers appealed his detention, requesting that he be released pending trial.
A source previously told CNN that most of the defendants who filed the civil lawsuit had met with federal investigators during their months-long investigation. In March, Homeland Security Investigations searched Combs’ residences in Los Angeles and Miami.
Following Combs’ arrest, officials said the investigation would remain active and ongoing.
