Sean “Diddy” Combs faces 120 new sexual misconduct claims, including one against a then 9-year-old

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Sean “Diddy” Combs faces 120 new sexual misconduct claims, including one from a person who claims he was just 9 years old when the music mogul abused him, a Texas-based attorney announced during a news conference Tuesday .

After the allegations against Combs emerged last year, Houston attorney Tony Buzbee said his office received a few calls with related allegations, but after federal authorities charged Combs with sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy two weeks ago, “the floodgates opened.” and led to more than a year of 3,285 people reportedly contacting Buzbee’s office with allegations of being “victimized” by the 54-year-old.

Of those 3,285, Buzbee said his team has reviewed and confirmed the accounts of 120 people who will file lawsuits, with 25 of them claiming they were minors at the time of the alleged act.

“The entertainment industry’s biggest secret, which wasn’t really a secret at all, has finally been revealed to the world. The wall of silence has now been broken and the victims are coming forward,” Buzbee said during the press conference.

Buzbee said the alleged incidents in the 120 lawsuits spanned from 1991 to early this year. He described the victims as 60 men and 60 women from more than 25 states, with the majority from California, New York, Georgia or Florida. He also said 62% are black, 30% are white and the rest are Hispanic or Asian.

Listing the ages of some plaintiffs at the “time of the incident,” Buzbee described the case of a boy who was allegedly taken to audition at Combs’ Bad Boy Records in New York City when he was nine years old. The lawyer said the boy was one of many minors trying to get a record deal there, but under a false promise, the 9-year-old was instead allegedly sexually abused by Combs and several others in the studio.

Another case Buzbee shared involved a then-15-year-old girl who was flown to New York City to attend a party, where she was allegedly drugged and then taken to a private room and raped by Combs and several others . Buzbee also described a pregnant woman who claimed she drank a soft drink at dinner with Combs and then woke up the next morning next to Combs and with injuries to her genitals.

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Although each is an isolated case, Buzbee said most of the lawsuits share a common theme in which the plaintiff was allegedly “lured” into a situation with Combs, often at a party or audition, and in 90% of the cases were given a drink that they wanted to drink later. After it came into effect, the alleged victims were subjected to “sexual acts of all kinds” by the music mogul and other perpetrators, Buzbee said.

More than 55% of plaintiffs who filed lawsuits filed reports with authorities or hospitals after their alleged incident with Combs, Buzbee said. As his office compiled medical records and law enforcement reports, the attorney noted during the press conference that many plaintiffs had “strange drugs” in their systems. He specifically mentioned xylazine, a veterinary sedative also known as “Tranq” that is known to slow breathing, heart rate and blood pressure to dangerously low levels.

In addition to Combs, Buzbee said, the 120 lawsuits will name many other defendants, from those who participated in or encouraged the alleged assaults to everyone in the room or at the venue who knew about them but she did not prevented. He explained that some of these defendants will be celebrities “that we all know,” while others will be businesses or venues.

“There are many people and many organizations involved, and we will follow this evidence wherever it leads us,” Buzbee said. “We will find the silent accomplices. We will expose the enablers who enable this behavior behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates. These brave victims who have stepped forward deserve nothing less.”

Buzbee said his office expects to file the 120 lawsuits in civil court within the next 30 days as his team continues to review hundreds more cases. The allegations he makes in the lawsuits include violent sexual assault or rape, sexual abuse, facilitated sex with a controlled substance, false imprisonment, forced prostitution, sexual misconduct, distribution of video recordings and sexual abuse of minors.

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Combs is currently being held without bail after pleading not guilty to a federal indictment that accuses him of years of abusing victims and presiding over a sex crimes empire. It came nearly six months after federal agents searched his home as part of the investigation and about 10 months after singer Cassie, Combs’ former longtime girlfriend, sued him in November for rape and physical abuse.

Although her case was settled shortly after it was filed, the lawsuit sparked a wave of other complaints from plaintiffs alleging similar incidents of sexual misconduct. Last week, Thalia Graves became the 11th person to accuse Combs of sex crimes when her attorney, Gloria Allred, filed a lawsuit alleging that he and his bodyguard forcibly raped her, recorded it, and repeated the footage in the years since the indictment Pornography Sells Incident of 2001.

During a press conference announcing the lawsuit, Allred corrected a reporter who asked the attorney if she was representing someone else female Combs’ victims say “or men.” She said she represented other alleged victims but did not comment on whether additional lawsuits would be filed.

Allred had “no comment” on whether Graves had been contacted by federal prosecutors, but at his news conference Buzbee said some of the plaintiffs were in his cases have spoke to the FBI. He said the other people who did not do so would be “made available” to assist in the investigation.