Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old boy in a new lawsuit.

The 54-year-old rapper allegedly assaulted the boy in a New York hotel room in 2005.

A second new lawsuit accuses the jailed hip-hop mogul of assaulting a 17-year-old who was an alleged contestant on the television series Making the Band in 2008.

They are the most recent of a wave of lawsuits in which the accusers allege they were sexually assaulted by combs at parties and meetings for the past two decades.

Combs’ attorneys denied the two new claims and accused the plaintiffs’ attorney, Anthony Buzbee, of seeking publicity. Mr. Buzbee says he represents more than 150 of the rapper’s alleged victims and has filed at least 17 lawsuits.

“Mr. Combs and his legal team have complete confidence in the facts and the integrity of the judicial process,” it said in an emailed statement. “In court, the truth will prevail: that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or trafficked anyone – male or female, adult or minor.”

Combs is currently in a New York City jail after pleading not guilty to federal sex-trafficking charges contained in an indictment unsealed following his Sept. 16 arrest.

He is accused of coercing and abusing women, as well as silencing victims through blackmail and violence.

The 10-year-old boy, who was not identified in the lawsuit, was an aspiring actor and rapper who had traveled with his parents from California for meetings with music executives.

He was given a drugged soft drink by an associate of Combs during what was supposed to be an audition.

Read more: What is Sean Combs accused of and when is his trial?

Combs pushed him down and forced him to perform oral sex before he passed out, the suit says.

The rapper threatened to seriously hurt the child’s parents if they told anyone what happened, the lawsuit states.

The unidentified 17-year-old said Combs forced him to perform oral sex with the music mogul and a bodyguard during a three-day audition for the Combs-produced television show Making the Band.

Combs framed the latter as a “test” of how much the teenager wanted to succeed in the music industry.

When he raised his concerns, the 17-year-old was removed from the competition and prevented from returning to the music industry for seven years, according to the filing.

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Both lawsuits were filed under New York’s Gender-Based Violence Victim Protection Act, which allows survivors to file lawsuits even if the statute of limitations has passed.

Combs’ criminal trial is scheduled for May 5, 2025.