Diddy launches $50m lawsuit over ‘bombshell intercourse tape’ claims after witness mentioned he had vids of star assaulting celebs
RAPPER Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is preventing again with a $50 million lawsuit in opposition to claims a witness has tapes of him sexually assaulting celebrities and minors.
The 55-year-old has been charged with racketeering, intercourse trafficking, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution after his arrest final September.
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It got here after a string of allegations in opposition to the rapper, producer and music govt.
Now, Combs who has been behind bars at New York’s Metropolitan Detention Centre since his arrest has filed a defamation lawsuit.
The music mogul named Nexstar Media Inc, music supervisor Courtney Burgess and his legal professional Ariel Mitchell accusing them of “fabricating outlandish claims and stirring up baseless hypothesis,” per Fox Information.
Within the swimsuit filed on Wednesday in New York Metropolis, he accused all three defendants of fuelling the general public’s need for “wild lies”.
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Final 12 months, Burgess was subpoenaed to testify in opposition to the rapper, the place he claimed he had movies on nearly a dozen flash drives displaying Combs’ alleged intercourse tapes.
The movies allegedly present female and male celebrities in addition to minors.
He claimed to have been given the tapes by the late mannequin and actor Kim Porter, the mom of Combs’ 4 kids.
Combs’ lawsuit alleges that Burgess “falsely claimed that he possessed movies of Mr Combs concerned within the sexual assault of celebrities and minors.”
It added that the movies don’t exist and that Burgess continued to repeat these false claims which have been then shared by Nexstar’s firm NewsNation.
“Thus, Burgess’ baseless lies have been rebroadcast on social and conventional media platforms that attain tens of millions of viewers within the United States and Overseas,” the swimsuit alleged.
Burgess’s legal professional, Mitchell, who can also be representing alleged victims of Combs, advised NewsNation that one of many movies contained a male superstar who’s “extra high-profile” than the rapper.
She mentioned: “I can confirm that this exists — that it is actual and that the opposite individual within the video may be very seen.
“There is no query of if it is that individual within the video.”
‘OUTRAGEOUS LIES’
Combs’ bombshell lawsuit additional accuses the legal professional of figuring out “her shopper’s claims have been false or at a minimal was completely reckless in disregarding their falsity.”
It continued: “As a result of no such tapes exist, and since Mitchell by no means noticed any video depicting Mr. Combs sexually abusing anybody, grownup or minor, Mitchell’s many false assertions that Burgess possessed such movies have been both knowingly blatant falsehoods or recklessly false statements made because the direct results of Mitchell’s inexcusable failure to research her shopper’s outrageous lies.”
The actions of NewsNation, Burgess, and Mitchell, “have induced profound reputational and financial damage and extreme prejudice to Mr. Combs,” the swimsuit claimed.
Consequently, the disgraced musician is looking for $50 million in damages.
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What occurred throughout Sean Combs’ ‘freak offs’?
Sean Combs’ notorious drug-fueled freak offs, first revealed by his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit in November 2023, have develop into a central narrative of the indictment, which alleges:
- The music mogul “manipulated girls to take part in extremely orchestrated performances of sexual exercise with male industrial intercourse employees.”
- Freak offs “occurred frequently, generally lasted a number of days, and sometimes concerned a number of industrial intercourse employees.”
- Combs “distributed a wide range of managed substances to victims, partly to maintain the victims obedient and compliant.”
- He and the victims “usually acquired IV fluids to get well from the bodily exertion and drug use” after the freak offs.
- Cops “seized varied Freak Off provides, together with narcotics and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant” from his properties in Los Angeles and Miami.
- Combs “hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, at occasions, by their hair,” throughout and separate from the freak offs, which “usually resulted in accidents that took days or perhaps weeks to heal.”
- He additionally used the “delicate, embarrassing, and incriminating recordings” that he made throughout freak offs as “collateral to make sure the continued obedience and silence of the victims.”
Burgess claims that the alleged tapes are not any within the possession of legislation enforcement after they have been seized from his dwelling with Mitchell including that her shopper handed over all drives to the federal authorities.
Combs’ lawsuit says these claims are “fully false” and that “no such video was ever turned over the the federal government as a result of no such video exists.”
LAWYERS LOCK HORNS
The rapper’s lawyer Erica Wolff advised Fox Information Digital: “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is taking a stand in opposition to the malicious falsehoods which have been fabricated and amplified by people looking for to revenue at his expense.”
“These defendants have wilfully fabricated and disseminated outrageous lies with reckless disregard for the reality.
“Their falsehoods have poisoned public notion and contaminated the jury pool.
“This criticism ought to function a warning that such intentional falsehoods, which undermine Mr. Combs’s proper to a good trial, will now not be tolerated.”
However Mitchell has hit again on the transfer telling TMZ it’s “a pathetic ploy to silence victims and individuals who arise for victims.”
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She added that she “seems ahead to counter suing” not solely punishing the rapper but in addition his authorized staff who “filed this pathetic lawsuit for this frivolous and meritless submitting.”
The rapper’s trial is ready to start on Might 5 and if discovered responsible, he may get a life sentence.
Combs continues to keep up his innocence in opposition to all prices and can stay behind bars till his trial after prosecutors objected to the star’s third bail bid.
A bombshell Channel 4 documentary is ready so as to add to the so-called “media frenzy” because the tv channel joins forces with Lion TV for the sequence Diddy: In Plain Sight.
The present is ready to go over all prices lodged in opposition to the rapper and see extra folks converse up and provides their testimony.
A TV insider mentioned: “It is going to little doubt produce some very surprising revelations.”
It’s anticipated to air later this 12 months and follows an announcement by Netflix that it has additionally been making a documentary concerning the fallen star, titled Diddy Do It?
The Solar has reached out to Combs’ lawyer, Mitchell, Burgess and Nexstar Media Group Inc. for remark.
Combs’ downfall
By The U.S. Solar’s Senior Reporter Forrest McFarland, who has been reporting on Combs’ authorized battles for years
BEFORE Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest, it had been extremely speculated that the rap star would discover himself in custody after he was repeatedly hit with disturbing accusations – and had two of his mansions raided by the feds.
His mounting authorized troubles lastly got here to a head on September 17, when he was charged with three federal counts, together with intercourse trafficking, for allegedly forcing victims to participate in drug-fueled intercourse events he known as “Freak Offs.”
Hours earlier than his arrest, The U.S. Solar solely revealed the feds investigating Combs have been secretly liaising with Tupac Shakur homicide prosecutors on gangland actions.
The event additionally got here after Combs was named 77 occasions in paperwork submitted by prosecutors within the Tupac homicide case.
Other than the Tupac probe, Combs was already dealing with a slew of lawsuits, together with one he settled together with his ex, Cassie Ventura, after she accused him of rape and abuse.
Disturbing lodge surveillance video from 2016 confirmed Combs chasing Cassie down after which punching, kicking, and beating her in a hallway.
Two months earlier, in March 2024, two of Combs’ mansions have been raided by federal investigators, who seized three AR-15s, medication, and 1,000 bottles of lube which have been a part of his “Freak Off” provides.
Along with his federal felony prices, Combs additionally faces a handful of lawsuits with allegations of sexual assault, harassment, and intercourse trafficking courting again to the early Nineties.
Music producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed one swimsuit in February 2024, claiming Combs compelled him to rent intercourse employees and take part in intercourse acts whereas he labored on his newest album.
Combs has denied any wrongdoing and pleaded not responsible to the federal intercourse trafficking prices in opposition to him, however his battle is way from over.
He faces life in jail if he is convicted on all counts.
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