A woman accuses Sean “Diddy” Combs in a lawsuit of raping her after she attended a VMA after-party in New York.
A Texas-based attorney filed five new lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Sunday.
In one of the lawsuits, filed in the Southern District of New York, a woman is accusing the hip-hop mogul of drugging and raping her when she was 13 while at an after-party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards.
The anonymous Jane Doe plaintiff from Alabama accuses Combs of raping her at a New York City house party, as two other unnamed celebrities watched. The party took place after the awards show at Radio City Music Hall, the lawsuit says.
Those celebrities are only identified in the lawsuit as “Celebrity A” and “Celebrity B.”
It is unclear why they are not identified in the court papers, and attorneys for the plaintiff did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider on Monday.
Tony Buzbee, the Texas attorney who filed the lawsuits along with co-counsel AVA Law Group and New York local counsel Curis Law, noted in a statement Monday that several other individuals are referenced in the case filings, but are not at this time formally named as defendants.
Combs’ attorneys have consistently denied any accusations of sexual assault.
Combs rose to fame as a rapper and producer in the late 1990s before going on to build a business empire. He went on to become one of the first — and richest — hip-hop moguls of all time.
In 1998, he founded fashion label Sean Jean, which was bringing in more than $525 million in retail sales by 2010.
By 2017, he had reported pretax earnings of $130 million, allowing him to notch the top spot on Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebrities for the year. At the time, his sprawling business organization — which has since dwindled — was worth as much as $820 million.
The lawsuit from Sunday is among many that attorney Buzbee recently promised to file against Combs on behalf of 120 accusers.
Buzbee’s firm has so far filed at least 11 civil lawsuits against Combs.
Those complaints, all filed on behalf of Jane or John Does, include many identical pages of abuse allegations against Combs, aside from the new paragraphs of the incident-based allegations for each victim.
