October 10, 2024: The Diddy trial date—May 5, 2025—is announced at a hearing in Manhattan federal court, the rapper’s third court appearance since his September 16 arrest. Per Reuters, Diddy blew kisses at family members in the courtroom, including his mother and children.
October 1, 2024: Diddy faces a wave of new sexual assault allegations when, during a press conference, Texas-based attorney Tony Buzbee says he is representing more than 120 accusers and will be filing a series of civil lawsuits against Diddy in various states over the next 30 days.
Buzbee added that he and his team have “collected pictures, video, texts” as evidence and that allegations include: “violent sexual assault or rape, facilitated sex with a controlled substance, dissemination of video recordings, sexual abuse of minors.” The youngest alleged victim was just nine years old at the time of their assault, Buzbee noted. The allegations span the past 20 years.
“We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors,” Buzbee told reporters. “We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates.”
Though he did not single out anyone specifically, Buzbee claimed that some of these “enablers” include high-profile people. “These names will shock you,” he said. Buzbee added that he will be naming the other defendants at a later date.
The lawyer, who also represented victims of the fatal crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Fest, said that more than 3,000 people came forward with allegations against Diddy.
In a statement, Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff says, “As Mr. Combs’s legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus. That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors. He looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court if and when claims are filed and served, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”
