一位人身伤害律师最近因释放一连串的民事诉讼针对肖恩“吹牛老爹”库姆斯现在自己是一个新的诉讼的目标,指控他“敲诈阴谋”。
一名匿名原告起诉托尼·布兹比和他的公司布兹比律师事务所,“无耻地试图向他勒索过高的金额,或者公开对他提出疯狂虚假的可怕指控。”
周一在洛杉矶提起的诉讼是由一位匿名的无名氏提起的,根据诉讼,他与库姆斯有某种联系。
它声称,Buzbee和他的公司“威胁说,如果原告拒绝遵守他们的要求,他们将对原告提出完全捏造和恶意的性侵犯指控,包括多起强奸未成年人的案件,无论男女。”。
“这些毫无根据的指控只不过是精心策划的阴谋中的一件武器,旨在破坏原告的高调声誉以获取利润,尽管这些指控完全没有任何事实依据,”诉讼称。
原告由Quinn Emanuel律师事务所的Michael Lifrak和Mari Henderson代理,他说Buzbee向Doe发出了多份书面要求,指控“原告犯下了卑鄙的性行为不端”,包括诬告原告强奸了在Combs举办的派对上被下药的未成年人。
根据诉讼,Buzbee随后威胁要对Doe“立即提起”一场“公开诉讼”,“重复相同的捏造指控,除非原告同意通过金钱调解解决问题”。
“原告目前面临着一把枪对着他的头——要么反复支付一笔过高的钱,以阻止被告广泛发布疯狂虚假的性侵犯指控,这将使原告遭受耻辱,并对原告的名誉、家庭、职业和生活造成不可挽回的伤害,要么面临无数民事诉讼的威胁以及财务和个人破产,”诉讼中说。
该诉讼要求赔偿敲诈和故意造成的精神痛苦,律师们借鉴了Buzbee的剧本,要求任何有Buzbee信息的人与他们联系。
Buzbee在给ABC新闻的一份长篇声明中抨击了这起诉讼,称其“不仅没有法律依据”,而且“可笑”。
他否认索要任何金钱或进行任何威胁,并形容他发出的信件“与全国各地律师在各种类型的案件中发出的信件没有什么不同。”
“很明显,对我的公司提起的无聊诉讼是一种咄咄逼人的企图,旨在恐吓或压制我,最终是我的客户,”Buzbee写道。
在本周早些时候的一份法庭文件中,检察官指控库姆斯试图阻挠他自己的案子在狱中,他声称“被告策划了社交媒体活动,用他自己的话说,目的是玷污陪审团;试图公开泄露他认为对其案件有帮助的材料;并通过第三方联系了目击者。”
文件引用了在搜查监狱时从库姆斯的牢房中发现的笔记。笔记的内容被编辑过,但检察官表示,有一个“强有力的推论”,即库姆斯贿赂了一名在Instagram上发布声明的匿名证人。
政府文件还指控库姆斯使用MDC-Brooklyn至少八名其他囚犯的电话账户,“似乎是为了逃避执法监控”,并给不在他批准的联系人名单上的人打电话。
Attorney for many Diddy accusers sued for alleged 'extortionate plot'
A personal injury attorney who recently gained national attention by unleashinga torrent of civil lawsuitsagainst Sean "Diddy" Combs is now himself the target of a new lawsuit accusing him of an "extortionate plot."
An anonymous plaintiff sued Tony Buzbee and his firm, The Buzbee Law Firm, for "shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him or else publicly file wildly false horrific allegations against him."
The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles, was brought by an anonymous John Doe, who is somehow linked to Combs, according to the suit.
It alleges Buzbee and his firm have "threatened to unleash entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sexual assault -- including multiple instances of rape of a minor, both male and female -- against Plaintiff if he refuses to comply with their demands" for money.
"These baseless accusations are nothing more than a weapon in a calculated plot to destroy Plaintiff's high-profile reputation for profit, despite the complete absence of any factual basis for such claims," the lawsuit said.
The plaintiff, who is represented by Michael Lifrak and Mari Henderson of the law firm Quinn Emanuel, said Buzbee sent Doe multiple written demands alleging "vile sexual misconduct committed by Plaintiff," including falsely accusing the plaintiff of raping minors who had been drugged at parties hosted by Combs.
Buzbee then threatened to "immediately file" a "public lawsuit" against Doe "repeating the same fabricated allegations unless Plaintiff agreed to resolve the matters through mediation for money," according to the lawsuit.
"Plaintiff presently faces a gun to his head -- either repeatedly pay an exorbitant sum of money to stop Defendants from the wide publication of wildly false allegations of sexual assault that would subject Plaintiff to opprobrium and irreparably harm Plaintiff's reputation, family, career and livelihood, or else face the threat of an untold number of civil suits and financial and personal ruin," the lawsuit said.
The suit seeks damages for extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress and, taking a page from Buzbee's playbook, the lawyers are asking anyone with information on Buzbee to get in touch with them.
Buzbee slammed the lawsuit in a lengthy statement to ABC News, calling it "not only without legal merit" but also "laughable."
He denied demanding any money or making any threats, and described the letters he sent as "no different than the ones routinely sent by lawyers across the country in all types of cases."
"It is obvious that the frivolous lawsuit filed against my firm is an aggressive attempt to intimidate or silence me and ultimately my clients," Buzbee wrote.
In a court filing earlier this week, prosecutors accused Combs of trying toobstruct his own casewhile behind bars, alleging that "the defendant has, among other things, orchestrated social media campaigns that are, in his own words, aimed at tainting the jury pool; made efforts to publicly leak materials he views as helpful to his case; and contacted witnesses through third parties."
The filing cited notes from Combs' cell that were found during a sweep of the jail. The contents of the notes are redacted but the prosecutors said there is a "strong inference" that Combs paid off an unnamed witness who had posted a statement to Instagram.
The government filing also accused Combs of using the telephone accounts of at least eight other inmates at MDC-Brooklyn "seemingly to avoid law enforcement monitoring" and to make phone calls to people who are not on his approved contact list.