A hotline set up for victims of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was inundated with 12,000 calls in just 24 hours, while 120 are already preparing to sue the rapper.
Attorney Tony Buzbee posted a hotline earlier this week, encouraging those who were victims of the rapper, 54, or those who know of his crimes to come forward.
Combs was arrested last month in Manhattan following an investigation into his alleged sex trafficking crimes, where he is accused of drugging and raping victims as young as nine years old.
“When I announced that I was going to pursue these cases, the floodgates really opened,” Buzbee said. Law and crime. “The volume of calls has been overwhelming and it’s been kind of shocking.”
Ten days after the hotline was activated, Buzbee’s team received about 3,200 calls. But after Tuesday’s press conference, they received 12,000 calls in just 24 hours.
“So our Herculean task is to try to examine each of these calls and make sure we identify who are victims and witnesses and collect evidence,” he told the outlet.
The Texas-based attorney has about “100 people working on this task” and they hope to begin filing civil cases within 30 days.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested last month in Manhattan following an investigation into his alleged sex trafficking crimes, where he is accused of drugging and raping victims as young as nine years old.
Attorney Tony Buzbee posted a hotline earlier this week. Ten days after the hotline was activated, Buzbee’s team received about 3,200 calls. But after Tuesday’s press conference, they received 12,000 calls in just 24 hours. “The volume of calls has been overwhelming,” he said.
His team has already gathered enough evidence to file 120 victim lawsuits against the rapper.
Of the 120 victims, 25 were minors at the time of the abuse. The youngest victims were then 9, 14, 15 years old.
“This individual, who was 9 years old at the time, was taken to an audition in New York City with Bad Boy Records,” the lawyer revealed at the press conference.
“This individual was allegedly sexually abused by Sean Combs and several other people at the studio with the promise to both his parents and himself of getting a record deal.”
The claims come from victims who were pursuing careers in television or music and the rapper promised to make them stars, as well as those who were simply invited to Diddy’s afterparties, Buzbee said.
The attorney has not filed the claims yet, as they are looking to include “all potentially responsible parties” before doing so.
“I’m referring to any entity or other individual that was involved, participated, facilitated, abetted, provided the venue, benefited from it, profited from it, that type of thing,” he told Law & Crime.
Although his team was initially surprised by the number of calls, the lawyer said they are looking at 25 years of Diddy’s alleged behavior that took place at album release parties, his famous White Parties and Freak Off, among other events.
Although his team was initially surprised by the number of calls, the lawyer said they are looking at 25 years of Diddy’s alleged behavior that took place at album release parties, his famous White Parties (pictured) and Freak Off parties. , among others. events
Some of the cases about to be filed include names that would surprise viewers, Buzbee said, although he did not reveal the names of these high-profile people.
“We want to be very careful with who we appoint,” he told the outlet. “I’m not going to be the person who starts naming potential people and slandering people for no reason.”
Buzbee said there was a “pattern” of behavior at Diddy’s parties and that it was an open secret among Hollywood’s elite.
“I have no doubt that there are people right now who know that they were somehow involved in this, who are now cleaning up their social media, who are searching their memories, who are deleting their texts, probably deleting images and trying to distance themselves.” of this, and we know who they are or we will find out who they are,’ the lawyer said.
“This is not something that is going to happen overnight, but I think we are at the tip of the iceberg.”
His team has already gathered enough evidence to file 120 victim lawsuits against the ‘Show Me Your Soul’ rapper, ahead of 12,000 calls
One of the most prominent people who the public has speculated was involved in the Diddy scandal was singer Justin Bieber, who was seen hanging out with the musician as a teenager.
The couple even appeared together on Jimmy Kimmel, where the rapper claimed they were “friends” and didn’t talk about what they did together.
Sources close to Bieber, 30, exclusively told the Daily Mail that he “should never have been allowed to party with Diddy or anyone else when he was a teenager.”
They claim he was “thrown to the wolves” by his mother Pattie Mallette and largely absent father Jeremy Bieber.
Usher, whose record label signed Bieber and who was mentored by Diddy as a teenager, is also partly responsible, these sources claim.
There is no evidence to suggest that Bieber or Usher’s parents were aware of Diddy’s alleged criminal activity at the time.