Diddy has been hit with a flood of new lawsuits -- including one brought by a girl who referenced unnamed celebrities and was just 13 years old when she says the music mogul drugged and raped her at a house party.
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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.
00:24TMZ presents The Downfall of Diddy, The Indictment, now streaming on Tubi.
00:30There are another series of lawsuits that have just been filed against Diddy,
00:36seven of them to be exact.
00:38Several involve minors, but the new thing is that now other celebrities
00:45have been named in these lawsuits, named in connection with these freak-offs.
00:50Right, that they are alleged involvement of other celebrities.
00:54A total of five lawsuits filed in federal court and two in New York state.
00:58One of them does mention two celebrities that were involved in,
01:03according to this lawsuit, a rape, a drugging of a young woman
01:09who says that she was 13 at the time, but that there were,
01:15not only was she in this suit, she alleges raped by Diddy,
01:19but while two celebrities were at first watching Diddy commit that rape,
01:24and then one of the celebrities actually raped her as well.
01:28Now what is interesting about this case is that they are not naming the celebrities.
01:33They are listed as celebrity one and celebrity two.
01:38There is a reason behind that, and it's something,
01:40we're actually doing a third Diddy documentary,
01:43and we're really diving deep into this issue,
01:46which is that there have been, there's been a lot of activity
01:50where lawyers for alleged victims have contacted celebrities
01:56who have been at these freak-offs over the years,
01:59because we're talking 20 years,
02:01and they are contacting them saying that either you were there,
02:06you watched, you participated,
02:08and there are settlements that we're told are going down right now,
02:13where celebrities, whether they feel they did anything right or wrong,
02:16they just don't want their names connected with this,
02:19and they're settling these already.
02:21So this has become a big thing,
02:23in a swirl in the middle of all of these lawsuits.
02:28Yeah, you know, we've been thinking about this for a long time,
02:30ever since we found out that the feds had seized all of the videotapes
02:34that had allegedly been taken within Diddy's homes during the freak-offs,
02:39and the possible threat that was to other people who were there,
02:42whether or not they were doing anything illegal or not.
02:44This is another sort of pillar of that offense
02:48against potential celebrities who were involved in these activities,
02:51again, whether legal or illegal.
02:53Now they're being named, although currently kept anonymous,
02:57but it eventually would have to come out if the lawsuits proceed.
03:01There's a great threat that these celebrities are going to be named,
03:04and, you know, they know who they are,
03:06if they were involved, I'm sure it's terrifying.
03:08Well, Dave Chasen, we should also say that there's a strategy
03:12with the lawyers representing these alleged victims,
03:14that there's a reason they didn't name these celebrities.
03:18They could have easily just named them, right?
03:20Yeah, once the names are out there, the settlement value goes way down,
03:23because the allegations are what they fear.
03:24So as long as the names are kept quiet for now,
03:28the settlement value is much higher.