The lawyer who’s turning out to be a recurring bad dream for Sean “Diddy” Combs was back with more bad news for the once swaggering rap star. Tony Buzbee, the Texas attorney with a bag of surprises, now says a hotline he established for people looking to tell their alleged tale of Diddy abuse has logged 12,000 calls in 24 hours, the New York Post reported Friday.
Buzbee might try to find a way to add some of these names to his already substantial list of 120 accusers who say they were sexually abused by Combs. Buzbee has warned that the list includes a lot of “household names” that he intends to name, as well as prominent companies that assisted Combs in the conduct of his alleged crimes.
Buzbee told Law&Crime in a Wednesday interview that the response from aggrieved people was way more than anticipated. “From the press conference we had yesterday, we’ve had 12,000 calls in about 24 hours,” he said.
“So, our Herculean task is to try to sift through every one of these calls and make sure that we’re identifying those who are victims and those who are witnesses and collect evidence.” Buzbee and his law partner won’t have to assess every file by themselves. “We have almost 100 people working on this task.”
The attorney says, with that many people on the file, they can properly determine whether a case is worth pursuing. “The 120 that we announced [Tuesday], those are claims that we could file right now against Sean Combs, but we’re trying to make sure that when we file the cases … that we include every potentially liable party,” Buzbee told the outlet.
The 120 cases that Buzbee has already approved are evenly divided between male and female complainants over a 33 year period, with 25 of them minors. One of these was only nine at the time of the alleged offense.