(NewsNation) — An attorney representing more than a hundred people alleging sexual misconduct by Sean “Diddy” Combs is being sued for assault by a former client.
The plaintiff, named as “Jane Doe,” filed a lawsuit against Houston-based attorney Tony Buzbee, saying he assaulted her while he represented her during her divorce, reported TMZ.
She alleges Buzbee pushed a champagne flute into her face in a “fit of rage,” and the hit caused her to chip a tooth, the outlet reported. The woman claimed to have medical and dental records as proof.
The woman also alleges Buzbee committed malpractice by fumbling her divorce case, which ended up costing her millions of dollars.
“Tony Buzbee is a hypocrite. There is nothing worse than when a black hat masquerades as a white hat,” Jeremy Bohrer, a lawyer for the plaintiff, told the outlet.
Buzbee called the lawsuit against him “crazy fiction” in a statement to TMZ. “We won’t be bullied or silenced by frivolous cases being filed against me or against my clients. All of this is false and I won’t tolerate defamation.”
Second lawsuit against Buzbee
The lawsuit comes as the second one filed against the attorney in one week.
Buzbee was sued for extortion and intentional infliction of emotional distress by a plaintiff referred to in the lawsuit as a “high-profile individual” and identified as “John Doe” through his lawyers, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Calling Buzbee’s actions “textbook extortion,” the lawsuit accuses the attorney of writing letters that made “wildly false horrific allegations” that Doe raped minors at one of Combs’ parties and that there would be consequences unless he agreed to a mediated settlement.
Buzbee, the lawsuit alleges, said he would “unleash entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sexual assault” as a threat, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“Buzbee has established a pattern of leveling baseless, fabricated, and malicious allegations at high-profile individuals and threatening to name them publicly if they fail to pay exorbitant sums of money,” law firm Quinn Emanuel, which is representing the celebrity who sued, said in a statement.
Buzbee denied the allegations, calling it a coordinated attack by a rival law firm in a statement to NewsNation local affiliate WJW.
“Here is what I know. I’ve been sued twice now so far and it’s being coordinated by a law firm from New York who reps a celebrity who I sent a demand letter to,” Buzbee stated in an email.
“The coordinated cases filed against me are frivolous and are an attempt to scare my clients,” he said. “I also intend to expose the law firm and that firm’s client who is behind this effort. I won’t let my clients be silenced by bullying tactics. I’m surprised you would be a pawn in this scheme by even giving this effort any air play.”
Buzbee and Diddy
In October, Buzbee announced he was representing 120 people who plan on filing lawsuits saying they have experienced sexual misconduct from Combs, including 25 minors.
Buzbee said those suing are 60 men and 60 women, of whom 25 were minors at the time of the alleged misconduct. The youngest, Buzbee said, was 9.
“I imagine there’s a myriad of people who are nervous,” Buzbee said when announcing the lawsuits. “You can’t hide skeletons in the closet forever.”
He filed five new lawsuits alleging aggravated sexual assault, sexual abuse and sexual exploitation against Combs last week.
“There’s an overarching theme here, as you probably can see, which is basically Sean Combs feels like he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants to do it,” Buzbee said in an interview with NBC News before filing the lawsuits.
Combs, who has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking and racketeering charges, is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. His arrest followed raids of his multimillion-dollar mansion conducted by Department of Homeland Security agents in March.
Along with the criminal case against him, Combs faces a list of civil lawsuits that allege abuse and sexual assault over the span of three decades.
NewsNation’s Cassie Buchman contributed to this story.