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Tony Buzbee, the attorney representing 120 alleged victims in lawsuits against Sean Combs, AKA Diddy, is being sued for assault and malpractice. The accuser is a woman who claims Buzbee assaulted her while he represented her during divorce proceedings.
TMZ reports the woman, suing as Jane Doe, claims she was in a public place when Tony Buzbee flew into a “fit of rage.” It was during this encounter that she claims the attorney shoved a champagne flute into her face, chipping one of her teeth, and she has the dental records to prove it.
She also claims Buzbee committed malpractice, botching her divorce settlement and costing her millions of dollars. This all reportedly took place several years ago. Buzbee, of course, denies the woman’s allegations.
“Tony Buzbee is a hypocrite,” the attorney for the alleged victim, Jeremy Bohrer, told TMZ. “There is nothing worse than when a black hat masquerades as a white hat.”
“That’s crazy fiction. Like really crazy. Like ridiculously crazy,” Buzbee told TMZ in response. “I would ask if the lawyer bringing this silly case is friends with a lawyer from the firm that brought the other [extortion] case. All this will be exposed soon.”
Perhaps ironically, Tony Buzbee also said in response to the new assault lawsuit filed against him, “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.”
Because earlier this month, USA Today reported that an anonymous “high-profile” male celebrity accused Buzbee and his Buzbee Law Firm of “shamelessly attempting to extort exorbitant sums from him” using “entirely fabricated and malicious allegations of sexual assault.”
The celebrity’s attorneys called Buzbee’s actions “nothing more than a weapon in a calculated plot to destroy (his) high-profile reputation for profit, despite the complete absence of any factual basis for such claims.”
They also claimed their famous client “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 … or else face the threat of an untold number of civil suits and financial and personal ruin.”