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New lawsuits add to growing ‘pile of evidence’ against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, say experts

The disgraced hip-hop mogul is facing scores of lawsuits, adding to his legal jeopardy as he remains in jail

In September 2000, a 13-year-old girl who hoped to attend the Video Music Awards – or at least an afterparty – started asking limousine drivers outside the event in New York City for help getting into the festivities. The charges against Combs, who pleaded not guilty, make him the latest person – joining the ranks of R Kelly, Bill Cosby, Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein – to allegedly use employees, drugs and promises of access to celebrities and career advancement to lure young women into situations where the powerful men and, in some cases, others in their circle then sexually assaulted them. Diddy, who is in federal custody in Brooklyn awaiting trial, has not only faced a reckoning in the court of public opinion but will probably also be convicted of the criminal charges and lose or have to settle the lawsuits, according to legal experts.

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