Lawsuits against Diddy pile up

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A courtroom sketch of Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Oct. 10, 2024. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been hit with seven new sexual abuse lawsuits, as his lawyers asked the judge overseeing the music mogul's criminal sex trafficking case for a gag order against Combs' accusers and their lawyers. Jonathan Stempel has more.

The new lawsuits compound the legal problems for Combs, who according to prosecutors coerced victims into participating in sex acts against their will, bribing and intimidating them into keeping quiet, and employing his staff to hide it all.

Combs has denied wrongdoing. He has also pleaded not guilty in the criminal case and is appealing his more than month-long detention in a Brooklyn jail after being denied bail twice.

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