When the R&B singer known as Cassie sued the hip-hop mogul last year—setting off his continuing tailspin—she turned to an attorney who has long been an adversary of famous men accused of sex crimes, and who has received his own bouts of scrutiny in recent years.
The unraveling of these images, when it arrived about a year ago, was sudden, jarring, and complete. For the lawyer behind the complaint that precipitated Combs’s tailspin, it was something of a trademark. “My practice has always involved, for the most part, trying to assess people’s credibility,” the attorney Douglas Wigdor recently said. “She struck me as someone who was extremely credible and suffering to this day.
” In May 2020, as Joe Biden campaigned, Wigdor represented a former congressional aide named Tara Reade after she accused the future president of sexually assaulting her in 1993. Biden denied the allegation. Wigdor’s firm said in a statement at the time that its battles with Fox News were evidence that the development had nothing to do with his support of Trump. “At the end of the day,” Wigdor said, “I’m not like a zealot for a cause.
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