A prominent Texas lawyer says he’s now working with 120 people with a range of sexual abuse claims against Sean “Diddy” Combs that have gone through a “stringent” process of vetting and corroboration. The lawyer, Tony Buzbee, claims 25 of the new clients were minors at the time of their alleged abuse.
“When we talk about the ages of the victims when the conduct occurred, it’s shocking,” Buzbee said at a press conference streamed online Tuesday. “Our youngest victim at the time of the occurrence was 9 years old. We have an individual who was 14 years old. We have one who was 15.”
Buzbee said the youngest alleged victim met with Combs at his Bad Boy offices in Manhattan for an audition. The 9-year-old child was “trying to land a record deal” alongside “other boys” amid a competitive process, the lawyer said. “This individual was sexually abused, allegedly by Sean Combs and several other people, at the studio,” Buzbee said.
Speaking from his law firm in Houston, Buzbee said another client also was underage and hoping to break into the entertainment business when he encountered Combs. The music mogul allegedly told the boy he would “make him a star, but he needed to visit with him in private about it,” away from his parents. “Once they were in a private area, allegedly, Mr. Combs made the victim perform oral sex upon him,” Buzbee said.
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