Diddy calls for the names of suspected child abuse victims to be released
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in 2023
Jemal Gravin/Getty Images for Congressional Black Caucus FoundationSean “Diddy” Combs has called on the government to identify his alleged accusers, including a man who claimed the rapper abused him as a child.
In legal documents filed with the Southern District of New York on Tuesday, October 15 and obtained by We weeklylawyers for Diddy, 54, hit back at a new wave of lawsuits alleging new sexual abuse claims against those raped, including the alleged sexual assault of a 16-year-old boy.
“Yesterday alone, anonymous plaintiffs filed an additional six lawsuits,” the documents read, referring to filings by two unidentified women and four unidentified men in a Manhattan federal court on Monday, Oct. 14. “Counsel for these plaintiffs recently called a press conference. (before filing) claiming to represent 120 plaintiffs who made outrageous and deeply prejudicial allegations, including forcible sexual assault and sexual abuse of minors.”
Diddy’s legal team, consisting of Marc Agnifilo, Teny R. Geragos, Anthony Ricco, Alexandra Shapiro And Anna Estevaodetailed that Diddy himself – and not just parties working on his behalf – requested the accusers’ names be released. “Mr. Combs has asked the government to identify her alleged victims,” the documents say.
Diddy is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York, after being arrested and indicted on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering on September 16.
In Monday’s filing by the new prosecutors, attorneys said the lawsuits involve just six of the more than 100 alleged victims who are pursuing legal action against Diddy. The lawsuits alleged “aggravated sexual assault, sexual abuse, and sexual exploitation” against Diddy and his affiliates.
Among the accusations was a man, currently living in North Carolina, who claimed Diddy fondled him at a white Hamptons party in 1998. The man claimed he was a teenager at the time and claimed the apparent assault occurred while he and Diddy had a conversation about the music industry.
Diddy’s attorneys responded to the lawsuits Monday night with a statement: “The press conference and the 1-800 call that preceded today’s barrage of filings were clear attempts to garner publicity. Mr. Combs and his legal team have complete confidence in the facts, their legal defense and the integrity of the judicial process. In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, male or female.”
In the legal team’s request to release the names of the alleged victims, they wrote: “These swirling allegations have created a hysterical media circus that, if left unchecked, will irreparably deprive Mr. Combs of due process, if they haven’t.” t al.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been named in a fourth sexual assault lawsuit, Us Weekly can confirm. An anonymous accuser charged Diddy, 54, on Wednesday, December 6, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Jane Doe alleged that she was sex-trafficked and gang-raped by the music mogul in 2008. […]
The documents also argued that Diddy “has no way of knowing what allegations the government is relying on for the purposes of the indictment.” It noted that without the names of the accusers being released, the government is “coercing him [Diddy]wrongly, to play a guessing game.”
During a court hearing on Thursday, October 10, a May 5, 2025 start date for Diddy’s trial was confirmed.
Diddy pleaded not guilty to a barrage of charges following his arrest on September 16, including racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution. On October 8, he filed his third appeal for provisional release. considered failed by Judge Arun Subramanian two days later.
A fourteen-page indictment released the day after his arrest accused Diddy of abusing, threatening, and coercing women for years “to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his reputation, and conceal his behavior.”
