New allegations of sexual assault against Sean "Diddy" Combs were revealed in six lawsuits filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York on Monday afternoon. Four of the plaintiffs are men.
The attacks are alleged to have taken place at industry events, "exclusive" after-parties and Combs' famous White Parties in the Hamptons between 1995 and 2021.
The six new suits bring the total number of sexual assault accusations leveled at Combs to 18.
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Two of the men have accused Combs of assaulting them at his star-studded White Party, including a 16-year-old boy who says that in 1998, Combs told him to drop his pants and then proceeded to fondle his genitals. Combs told the boy, who was trying to break into the music industry, that the assault was a "rite of passage."
The second alleged White Party incident involved a man working a last-minute security detail at the event. He says in 2006, he felt "extremely ill" after drinking a beverage laced with narcotics. Combs allegedly pushed him into van and raped him, the filing states.
A promotional event in 2008 at Macy's flagship store in Manhattan was the site of another attack, one lawsuit claims. Combs was there to promote his Sean John clothing line when the employee of a rival clothing brand says he was confronted in a stockroom and forced to perform oral sex on Combs as three armed bodyguards watched.
The latest assault took place three years ago at another Combs party, his alleged victim, a music consultant, says in his suit. Like the temp security guard, the man says he felt disorientated after consuming a drink he was given. He claims that while he was incapacitated, he was taken to a backroom where he was raped by multiple men, including Combs.
The team of lawyers representing the men includes Andrew van Arsdale of AVA Law Group, who argued for hundreds of victims in a sexual abuse lawsuit against the Boy Scouts of America, now known as Scouting America.
Van Arsdale and attorney Tony Buzbee of the Buzbee Law Firm announced earlier in October they would be filing over 100 lawsuits against Combs in New York, California, and Florida.
They say the alleged victims ranged in age from 9 to 38 at the time of the assaults.
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