The legal troubles for rapper Sean “P. Diddy” Combs keep mounting, as allegations of abortion coercion, along with sexual abuse and trafficking, continue. Combs — who was just arrested last month and charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution — is now being hit with an additional 120 lawsuits, all accusing Combs of sexual assault. According to the Washington Post, a team of lawyers plans to file the lawsuits in Florida, New York, and California.
According to attorney, 25 of the victims were minors when the alleged assaults occurred. The assaults reportedly took place over a 20-year period, beginning in 2000, with victims ranging in age from nine to 38. Most of the victims are Black, and the attacks are said to have taken place in New York (in Manhattan or the Hamptons), Los Angeles, and Miami, at “well-known venues,” hotels, and private homes. This even includes Combs’ famous “White Parties,” which were star-studded affairs attended by Hollywood’s elite every year.
The youngest victim was allegedly a nine-year-old boy who was lured to see Combs with promises of a music career, and was then raped. Another alleged victim was a 15-year-old girl, who was flown to New York, drugged, and then repeatedly raped by Combs and others. Another victim was allegedly pregnant at the time of her assault. “[She] … attended a group dinner allegedly with Sean Combs in Miami,” Tony Buzbee, one of the lead attorneys, said. “She wasn’t drinking because she was pregnant, but whatever she drank at the table apparently, according to her, was laced with something.” He added that she blacked out, and “woke up in the same bed — again, allegedly — with Mr. Combs in his mansion in Miami. Her vagina and her anus were torn and sore.”
Buzbee also said that Combs’ behavior was well-known in the entertainment industry, and that he would be coming forward with the names of those who knew or participated in Combs’ crimes.
“The biggest secret in the entertainment industry, that really wasn’t a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world. The wall of silence has now been broken,” Buzbee said during a press conference. He added:
The day will come when we will name names other than Sean Combs. And there’s a lot of names … The names that we’re going to name, assuming our investigators confirm and corroborate what we’ve been told, are names that will shock you.
I’m talking here about not just the cowardly but complicit bystanders, that is those people that we know watched this behavior occur and did nothing.
And I’m talking about the people that participated, encouraged it, egged it on. They know who they are.
Buzbee said over half of the victims reported their assaults, and some were found to have been drugged with horse tranquilizers. Combs is alleged to have threatened many of the victims to keep quiet, or to have paid them hush money.
The allegations that minors were victims as well, and the claim that so many knew about it and did not stop it, is beyond disturbing. Some states have passed or attempted to pass laws to prevent non-parental adults from taking minors across state lines to obtain abortions, yet pro-abortion groups have fought this under the guise of the so-called ‘reproductive rights’ of minors. As Live Action News has noted, “There have been numerous cases in which abortion businesses have shown willingness to aid sex traffickers or sex abusers in getting abortions for their victims.”
Combs’ downfall can be traced back to a lawsuit filed by his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura. In the lawsuit, she accused Combs of trafficking her, by forcing her to participate in parties he called “freak-offs,” or FOs, where she was drugged and raped for extended periods of time by people of Combs’ choosing. If she tried to escape or refused her to participate, she said Combs’ security team forced her to return. She said Combs was physically violent — so much so, that she required ongoing medical intervention.
Other women also came forward after Ventura’s lawsuit, saying Combs abused them and coerced them into abortions.
Less than a year after Ventura’s lawsuit was settled, Combs was arrested, and the accusations against him in the indictment are startingly similar to those laid out by Ventura. As with Ventura, girls were threatened and abused, drugged and forced to participate in “freak-offs,” and were so physically depleted by the events that they “typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use.” The indictment also said Combs’ team, including assistants, security staff, and more, not only knew about the abuse, but arranged and engineered it. They also were allegedly aware of the physical abuse the women suffered, which the indictment said often resulted in injuries that took days or even weeks to heal.
Buzbee urged the public to be understanding of what the victims have endured, and to applaud them for their courage in coming forward. “As we do this important work, we ask that the public understand it is very difficult and takes an incredible amount of courage for victims to come forward,” he said. “I ask that we treat these brave individuals with the dignity and compassion that they deserve as they go through this trying time.”
