Woman accuses Diddy of raping her during VMAs afterparty when she was 13

• Five new sexual assault civil lawsuits were filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Sunday.
• One accuses Combs of raping a 13-year-old girl at a 2000 VMAs afterparty.
• The lawsuit alleges that two other celebrities, who have not been identified, were involved.

A Texas-based attorney filed five new lawsuits against Sean “Diddy” Combs on Sunday.

In one of the lawsuits, filed in the Southern District of New York, a woman accuses the hip-hop mogul of drugging and raping her when she was 13 at an after-party following the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards have.

The anonymous Jane Doe plaintiff from Alabama accuses Combs of raping her at a house party in New York City while two other unnamed celebrities looked on. The party took place after the awards ceremony at Radio City Music Hall, the lawsuit says.

These celebrities are identified in the lawsuit only as “Celebrity A” and “Celebrity B.”

It's unclear why they aren't named in court filings, and the plaintiff's attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider on Monday.

Tony Buzbee, the Texas attorney who filed the lawsuits along with co-counsel AVA Law Group and New York attorney Curis Law, pointed out in a statement Monday that several other people were mentioned in the filings, but are currently not officially named as defendants.

Combs' lawyers have always denied any allegations of sexual assault.

Combs rose to fame in the late 1990s as a rapper and producer before building a business empire. He became one of the first – and richest hip-hop moguls of all time.

In 1998 he founded Fashion label Sean Jeanwhich brought in over $525 million in retail sales by 2010.

By 2017, it had reported pre-tax profits of $130 million, securing the top spot Forbes' List of the highest paid celebrities of the year. At the time, his sprawling business organization – which has since shrunk – was worth up to $820 million.

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Sunday's lawsuit is one of many that attorney Buzbee recently promised to file against Combs on behalf of 120 accusers.

Buzbee's firm has filed at least 11 civil lawsuits against Combs so far.

These complaints, all filed on behalf of Jane or John Does, contain many identical pages of abuse allegations against Combs, except for new paragraphs of incident-based allegations for each victim.

Buzbee said in his statement that he and his team “expect to file lawsuits and name Mr. Combs and others as defendants on a weekly basis as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the docket.”

In the complaint filed Sunday related to the 2000 VMAs afterparty, Jane Doe alleges that she was initially restrained and raped by “Celebrity A” while Combs and “Celebrity B” – a woman – watched.

“After Male Celebrity finished, Combs vaginally raped Plaintiff while Celebrity A and Celebrity B watched,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit alleges that Combs then attempted to force the plaintiff to perform oral sex on him, but she instead hit him in the neck and he stopped.

The lawsuit states that the plaintiff packed her clothes and left the bedroom “to wander naked around the house looking for the exit while the party continued.”

Once outside, the lawsuit says, Jane Doe got dressed again and headed to a gas station, where she called her father and “admitted that she had lied about her whereabouts and asked him to pick her up.” “.

A top-class event

The 2000 VMAs were hosted by brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans that year. The star-studded event will be best remembered for Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford, who climbed a scaffolding and refused to come down after losing an award to Limp Bizkit. Combs attended the awards show that year with Jennifer Lopez, who he was dating at the time.

The Jane Doe Plaintiff's Lawyers The complaint states that the young teen ended up at the party after a friend dropped her off at Radio City Music Hall in the hopes that she could attend.

“Determined to attend an afterparty, she approached several limo drivers and attempted to sneak into the VMAs,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit alleges she spoke to a limo driver who said he worked for Combs.

The lawsuit says the plaintiff was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement before entering the house party where she “recognized many celebrities.”

The plaintiff says her drink was drugged and when she began to feel “light-headed and dizzy,” she went into an empty bedroom to lie down.

Diddy looks for a gag order

Combs' lawyers on Monday repeated the same statement they made last week in response to the first wave of lawsuits from Buzbee's office, saying the complaints were an attempt to “generate publicity.”

“Mr. Combs and his legal team have full confidence in the facts, their legal defense and the integrity of the judicial process,” Combs' lawyers said in the statement to BI. “The truth will prevail in court: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone – adult or minor, man or woman.”

Combs was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last month on federal charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation for the purpose of prostitution. He has pleaded not guilty.

Since then, the rapper and entrepreneur has been held without bail in a notorious Brooklyn jail pending his sex trafficking trial scheduled for May 5 in Manhattan federal court.

The recent onslaught of lawsuits and negative press has not been lost on Combs' defense attorneys in this criminal case.

On Sunday, they filed a motion asking the judge overseeing Combs' case for a limited gag order barring any potential witnesses and their attorneys from speaking about their allegations outside of a court proceeding.

The Combs accusers now bringing civil suits are also potential witnesses in his criminal trial, his lawyers said.

Federal rules expressly prohibit such witnesses and their attorneys from making statements outside of court that could incriminate a jury.

“As the Court is aware, Mr. Combs has been the target of a never-ending barrage of allegations in the press from potential witnesses and their attorneys,” Combs' attorneys wrote to the judge. “These potential witnesses and their attorneys made numerous inflammatory extrajudicial statements aimed at assassinating Mr. Combs' character in the press.”