Big celebrities on the level of Diddy are going to be sued for allegedly helping him carry out and cover up sexual assaults, unless they settle out of court first ... so says attorney Tony Buzbee.
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00:00This is the type of indictment you would expect from someone in the mafia.
00:03I don't know that I could keep him off the stand.
00:05He is very eager to tell his story.
00:08They're going to show that video over and over and over
00:11about what happens to women that won't change their stories.
00:15His reputation is over.
00:17The United States government, they start making this case
00:20as a takedown of a successful black man.
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00:32Tony, you said last week at the news conference
00:35that you would begin filing lawsuits as early as this week.
00:41Do you have plans to do so?
00:44And do they involve celebrities?
00:46Do they involve just Diddy?
00:48People beyond Diddy?
00:50I think I'll let the lawsuits speak for themselves.
00:52I don't expect there to be anything, you know,
00:55everyone's focused on what other celebrities were involved.
00:59Who's going to be named?
01:00Who's going to be outed?
01:01I don't expect that to happen this week.
01:03I'm hoping to file some lawsuits this week.
01:06They, of course, will include Mr. Combs and some corporate entities.
01:11But we want to make sure that, you know,
01:13if we name individuals beyond Mr. Combs,
01:17that we make sure that we've done our homework
01:19because it's going to create a firestorm.
01:21We understand that.
01:22So we're going to make sure that we dot our I's and cross our T's.
01:27Tony, you said something interesting there.
01:29I don't expect that to happen this week.
01:32So that sounds like there could be other people named,
01:36other famous people named down the road.
01:39I know you said this is going to be a process
01:42over the next 30 days of filing these lawsuits.
01:44So are you saying not this week,
01:46but maybe in the weeks coming after this one?
01:50I would expect so.
01:51I really don't want to get into a situation where people are,
01:54you know, if I don't file a lawsuit next week,
01:57then, you know, that creates a media frenzy.
02:00The truth is, I want to be clear about something.
02:04If you were attending one of these parties,
02:09if you will, and you attended before
02:11or you knew what was going to happen,
02:12that is, you knew that a particular drug was being used
02:16and drinks that was causing people to be coerced
02:21and taken advantage of and you were there in the room
02:23or you participated or you watched it happen
02:26and didn't say anything
02:27or you helped cover it up,
02:29in my view, you have a problem.
02:32And as we file each one of these cases,
02:35we're going to make an effort to resolve them on the front end.
02:38But failing that, we're going to file public lawsuits
02:42and pursue these cases aggressively.
02:45So who will be named, when they will be named,
02:48all that will come out in due course.
02:51But the bottom line is, you know,
02:52I want to be clear about the scope of this.
02:55A lot of people attended these parties.
02:58A lot of people saw this activity going on.
03:01A lot of people allowed it to go on,
03:05said nothing, didn't intervene,
03:07maybe benefited from it, profited from it.
03:10All of these individuals and entities,
03:12in my view, have exposure here.
03:14Are we talking about celebrities on the level of Diddy?
03:17I would expect so, yes.
03:19Have you sent any demand letters out
03:22to anybody other than Diddy saying,
03:28here's what you've done, we want to settle with you,
03:30or we're going to file a lawsuit.
03:32Have you sent any to, say, other celebrities beyond Diddy?
03:36We have, and I want to explain that process
03:38because it's important.
03:40You know, in every single case,
03:41especially cases like this,
03:44we collect our data, collect our evidence,
03:46do our due diligence, spend time with the victim.
03:50And then, because it's in the best interest of the victim,
03:53we attempt to resolve these matters
03:55without the filing of a public lawsuit.
03:58And we have done that already.
04:00We've done that, I would say,
04:01with a handful of individuals,
04:03many of which you've heard of before,
04:06and we'll continue to do that.
04:07That's just the standard process
04:09that every lawyer in the United States
04:11who handles these types of cases uses
04:13because it's the right way to do it.
04:15But there are also people
04:17who want to jump on the gravy train
04:20and want to make money.
04:21And that's got to be a big slice
04:24of what you're getting.
04:26I mean, it's not just automatically believing somebody
04:29because they say it.
04:30No, I think, Harvey, I think you're right.
04:32You know, I was born at night,
04:33but I wasn't born last night.
04:35You know, you get 3,200 calls
04:37and that turns into 100 some odd clients.
04:40I think you see the process that we're involved in.
04:42We're doing a lot of vetting,
04:44a lot of due diligence.