The New York legal professional who lately filed lawsuits on behalf of three males who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting them has lastly spoken out about every case. Nonetheless, who he in contrast Combs to is much more disturbing.
Thomas Giuffra’s title was plastered all around the information final week after filhe filed lawsuits towards Combs on behalf of three John Doe’s. In an unique interview with CNN, the legal professional spoke on what compelled him to file given the already-large checklist of fits towards the rapper from Houston legal professional Tony Buzbee. His reasoning was partly as a result of the “sample” of the allegations reminded him of one other, notably sinister case.
“Each time you’ve a serial abuser, they observe a sample. Harvey Weinstein had a sample. Sean Combs has a sample,” Giuffra advised CNN. “With all three of them, the tales are a bit completely different. However the sample is at all times the identical. ‘Come into my orbit. Have a drink.’ You get woozy, take a relaxation [and] get up to being sodomized.”
Weinstein is at the moment doing time at Rikers Island on rape costs following a bombshell report from The New York Occasions and The New Yorker recording dozens of intercourse abuse accusations towards the producer.
The legal professional went on to say that inside every of the three accusations, there was a element that caught with him which compelled him to ahead. He then cited the lawsuit of 1 John Doe who claimed whereas he was allegedly being raped by Combs, the rapper mentioned “I’m nearly executed. Maintain nonetheless,” as he tried to withstand.
“That struck me. That was a robust recollection. Simply the rawness and the conceitedness, really,” Giuffra mentioned to CNN.
In response to the Weinstein jab, the producer’s legal professional advised TMZ the comparability between the 2 was “reckless and irresponsible.”
“It’s an outright mislead say that Harvey Weinstein had a sample of drugging girls and sexual abusing them. Not one accuser of Mr. Weinstein’s ever alleged that. The distinction within the allegations between Mr. Weinstein and Mr. Combs couldn’t be any extra completely different,” mentioned legal professional Arthur Aidala through TMZ.
These three John Doe lawsuits are the latest to return towards the rapper, although, much more are anticipated to return in. Tony Buzbee mentioned in an Oct. 1 press convention that he’s representing 120 people — women and men — who claimed to have been drugged, sexually assaulted, raped or threatened by Combs. Some alleged victims claimed to be minors on the time of the incidents. Out of the pool, over a dozen nameless plaintiffs have filed their lawsuits, per court docket information.
Most of the fits, filed since 2023, have been civil. Nonetheless, Combs faces prison costs of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and interesting in interstate transportation for prostitution in federal court docket. He has pleaded not responsible, and was denied bail 3 times.