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Attorney Tony Buzbee says more celebrities will be charged for Diddy

Attorney Tony Buzbee says more celebrities will be charged for Diddy

Attorney Tony Buzbee says more celebrities will be sued over Diddy demand letters sent

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Lawyer Tony Buzbee confirmed that more celebrities will be charged Sean “Diddy” Combsclaiming that demand letters have already been sent.

“I think I’ll let the lawsuits speak for themselves,” the Texas-based attorney told TMZ Live on Monday, October 7. “Everyone is focused on what other celebrities were involved, who is going to be mentioned, who is going to be out – I don’t expect that to happen this week. I hope to file some lawsuits this week.”

Buzbee said during an October 1 press conference that his practice (the Buzbee Law Firm) and the AVA Law Group represented a group of 120 victims, both men and women, accusing Diddy of sexual assault and sex trafficking dating back to the early 1990s. 90. . Both companies had been contacted by more than 3,000 individuals, although no lawsuits had been filed at the time.

“Of course we will involve Mr. Combs and some corporate entities, but we want to make sure that if we name individuals outside of Mr. Combs, we are sure that we have done our homework because this will create a firestorm and we understand that,” Buzbee told the outlet. “We’re going to make sure we dot our I’s and cross our T’s.”

Buzbee ruled that any other celebrities named in the lawsuits would not come to light “this week,” but noted that he did expect more information to be revealed in the coming weeks. “I would expect so. “I really don’t want to be in a situation where people, you know… I’m not going to file a lawsuit next week, that’ll cause a media frenzy,” he explained.

Attorney Tony Buzbee says more celebrities will be sued over Diddy demand letters sent
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“I want to be clear about something: if you attended one of these ‘parties’, if you will, and you were there before whether you knew what was going to happen, that is, you know that some drug was being put into drinks used. and allowed people to be coerced and abused and you were there in the room, or you participated, or you saw it happen and didn’t say anything, or you helped cover it up, in my opinion you have a problem,” Buzbee continued.

“As we file each of these cases, we’re going to do our best to resolve them on the front end, but if that doesn’t work, we’re going to file public lawsuits and aggressively prosecute these cases,” Buzbee said, adding that “who will be mentioned” and “when they will be mentioned will be announced in due time.”

The attorney continued, “Many people attended these parties. Many people saw this activity taking place, many people allowed it to continue, said nothing, did not intervene, perhaps took advantage of it, profited from it. In my opinion, all these individuals and entities have exposure here.”

Buzbee confirmed that his company had already sent demand letters to people other than Diddy. “In every single case, especially cases like this, we gather our data, we gather our evidence, we do our due diligence, we spend time with the victim, and because it’s in the best interest of the victim, we try to we solve these matters. without a public lawsuit having been filed,” he said. “And we’ve already done that, I would say, with a handful of individuals, many of whom you’ve heard of before, and (we) will continue to do that.”

He added: “That’s just standard procedure that every lawyer in the United States who handles these types of cases uses because it’s the right way to do it.”

Buzbee also said he was aware that people would come forward claiming to be victims of an attempted cash theft. “I was born at night, but not last night,” he told TMZ.

Diddy was arrested in September on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution. A fourteen-page complaint alleged that the rapper had “abused, threatened and coerced women and others around him” for decades. Diddy pleaded not guilty to the charges after being denied bail twice. He was held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn until his trial.

“We are disappointed with the decision to proceed with what we believe is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the United States Attorney’s Office,” Diddy’s attorney Marc Agnifilo told us last month after his arrest. “Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving family man and proven philanthropist who has spent the past 30 years building an empire, adores his children and working to uplift the Black community.”

He added: “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal. To his credit, Mr. Combs has been nothing but cooperative in this investigation and voluntarily moved to New York last week pending these charges. Please reserve judgment until you have all the facts. These are the actions of an innocent man who has nothing to hide, and he looks forward to clearing his name in court.”

A source said this exclusively We weekly on Wednesday, October 2, that Diddy’s parties were “known for being wild,” often attended by A-list stars.

Since the start of his legal troubles, speculation has swirled around the activities at Diddy’s parties, with talk of sex rooms, drug use and ‘Freak Offs’, where victims were allegedly drugged and forced to participate in ‘elaborate sexual performances’. the police said. indictment. Diddy has denied all allegations of sexual assault against him.