by - A sexual abuse lawsuit alleges that Sean Combs raped a 10-year-old boy during an audition in New York in 2005.
- It is the latest of two dozen filed in the past year against Combs, who remains in jail.
- The lawsuit claims the child was given soda to drink and then lost consciousness.
Sean “Diddy” Combs is accused in a new lawsuit of drugging and raping a 10-year-old boy during an audition at a New York City hotel in 2005.
He claims in the lawsuit that he remembers being given soda and quickly feeling “funny” and losing consciousness during the seizure.
The accuser — the latest of more than two dozen lawsuits filed against the rap mogul in the past year — was not named in the lawsuit, other than to say he was an aspiring child rapper who now lives in California.
At least eight of the lawsuits were filed by plaintiffs who allege they approached Combs hoping to break into the music industry and that Combs abused them after promising to help their careers.
These lawsuits include a plaintiff who was a 16-year-old boy at the time of the alleged abuse. A second lawsuit filed Monday alleges that in 2008, during a Making the Band audition in New York, Combs pressured a 17-year-old boy to have sex with him and a bodyguard named “T.” According to the lawsuit, these meetings were described by Combs as a “test” of his willingness to do whatever it took to succeed in the business.
The accuser, who claims he was 10 years old, describes in his lawsuit what started as a routine audition.
“Plaintiff performed several rap songs for Combs,” says the lawsuit, which describes a meeting at a hotel near Penn Station in Manhattan.
The boy and his parents had flown to New York from their home in Los Angeles to meet with “numerous people within the music industry”; Combs had insisted he meet the boy alone in his hotel room, the lawsuit alleges.
“Combs complimented Plaintiff on his rapping and told Plaintiff he could ‘make him a star,’” according to the lawsuit, which was filed in federal court in New York.
“Combs asked Plaintiff how much he wanted to be a star, and what Plaintiff would do to become one. Plaintiff, like any ten-year-old child, responded that he would ‘do anything,'” says the lawsuit, the 14th filed in the last three weeks by The Buzbee Law Firm, says.
At that point, others in the room gave him soda to drink, the lawsuit alleges.
“Sometimes you have to do things you don’t want to do,” the lawsuit claims Combs soon told him, pressuring him.
The accuser claims he lost consciousness when he was forcibly orally assaulted, and when he woke up he discovered his pants were loose and “his anus and buttocks were in severe pain.”
“Combs was still present. Plaintiff was crying that he wanted to go to his mother and father. Combs responded that if Plaintiff told anyone what happened, he would seriously hurt Plaintiff’s mother and father,” the lawsuit alleges.
He eventually told his parents what happened, but they “were terrified of the possible consequences of reporting the abuse,” according to the lawsuit.
Nearly two decades later, the plaintiff still suffers from depression, anxiety, panic and “night terrors,” the lawsuit alleges.
Combs remains held in a federal prison in Brooklyn pending a sex trafficking trial set for May 5. He has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges and has consistently denied all allegations of sexual abuse.
“The attorney behind these lawsuits is more interested in media attention than the truth, as evidenced by his continued appearances in the press and his 1-800 number,” Combs’ attorneys told BI when asked Monday about the documents.
“As we have said before, Mr. Combs cannot respond to every new publicity stunt, even in response to claims that are ridiculous or demonstrably false on their face. Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts and the integrity of the In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually abused or trafficked anyone – male or female, adult or minor.”
Combs was one of the biggest names in the music industry during the years many of the accusers say they were abused. In addition to running Bad Boy Records, he also launched the Sean John clothing line in 1998.
He was well connected and known for his celebrity-filled parties. The federal indictment alleges that Combs used his position of power to commit crimes.
“Combs relied on the employees, resources and influence of the multi-faceted business empire he led and controlled – creating a criminal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in and attempted to participate in sex trafficking and forced labor, among other crimes. , kidnapping, arson, bribery and obstruction of justice,” the fourteen-page indictment said.
“Combs, and other members and associates of the Combs Enterprise, wielded the power and prestige of Combs’ role in the Combs Business to intimidate, threaten, and lure female victims into Combs’ orbit.”