Sean “Diddy” Combs has been accused of sexual assault by a former male colleague. The brand new lawsuit is the newest in a string of disturbing allegations of the same nature towards the music mogul, all of which he denies. Yahoo Leisure has reached out to Combs’s lawyer for remark.
This is what is going on on.
Music producer claims Diddy would grope him, parade round bare. He is in search of $30 million.
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer on Diddy’s 2023 album, filed the lawsuit in federal courtroom in New York on Monday towards the rapper and a number of other associates. Jones alleges to have witnessed Combs and others “partaking in critical criminal activity” whereas he lived and traveled with the celebrity from September 2022 to November 2023.
In paperwork obtained by NBC Information, Jones claims Combs compelled him to solicit intercourse staff, some underage. The producer alleges he was pressured into having intercourse with them at Combs’s course. Photos of the alleged gatherings that seem to point out intercourse staff at events at Combs’s houses are included within the submitting. Jones claims that among the intercourse staff got drinks laced with medication at Combs’s course. On a minimum of one event, in keeping with the go well with, Jones says he believes he was drugged as he awakened bare and disoriented in mattress with Combs and two intercourse staff.
Jones alleges he was compelled to work in Combs’s rest room because the entrepreneur showered bare. When he voiced concern to Combs’s chief of employees, it was dismissed as “pleasant horseplay, stating that these acts had been Mr. Combs approach of ‘displaying that he likes you,'” per the lawsuit. Jones alleges there was “fixed unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus” by Combs.
Jones alleges Combs was “grooming him to go him off to his mates,” in keeping with the criticism seen by The Hollywood Reporter. He is suing for harassment and assault, in search of $30 million in damages.
Combs calls newest allegations “pure fiction”
Combs’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, slams Jones and says his “reckless name-dropping about occasions which might be pure fiction and easily didn’t occur is nothing greater than a clear try to garner headlines.”
“We’ve overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies. Our makes an attempt to share this proof with Mr. Jones’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls,” Combs’s lawyer says in a press release to The Hollywood Reporter. “We’ll deal with these outlandish allegations in courtroom and take all acceptable motion towards those that make them.”
Combs has been sued for sexual assault, harassment and/or misconduct by 4 different individuals since November 2023. This is a rundown of the accusations.
Casandra Ventura: The singer often called Cassie filed a federal lawsuit accusing her longtime ex-boyfriend of rape, intercourse trafficking and different disturbing allegations. In a stunning transfer, the 2 introduced the case was settled days later earlier than any proceedings may start.
Joi Dickerson-Neal: The girl alleges in a civil go well with that Combs drugged and raped her in New York Metropolis in 1991, when she was a university pupil. She claims he filmed the assault and shared it with different individuals within the music trade.
Jane Doe 1: A girl alleges Combs and singer-songwriter Aaron Corridor took turns raping her and a good friend at Corridor’s New York condominium in 1990 or 1991.
Jane Doe 2: A girl claims Combs was amongst three males who gang-raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years previous. She additionally accused the music mogul of intercourse trafficking within the civil go well with.
Varied legal guidelines allowed these individuals to file complaints towards Combs. The New York state Grownup Survivors Act (ASA), which expired in November, supplied alleged sexual abuse survivors within the state a “one-year look again window” to file civil claims no matter any standing statute of limitations. This utilized within the case of Cassie, Dickerson-Neal and Jane Doe 1.
As for the second Jane Doe, who introduced her lawsuit in December, it was filed underneath the New York Metropolis Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Safety Act. The regulation additionally extends the statute of limitations for gender-based crimes like sexual assault.
Do these lawsuits affect Jones’s case?
New York-based lawyer Judie Saunders, a accomplice with ASK LLP who’s an skilled in circumstances involving sexual abuse and misconduct, tells Yahoo Leisure these lawsuits are vital for a number of causes.
“Previous lawsuits naming the identical defendant or the office affect future litigation for 2 causes. First, on a granular degree, previous lawsuits may very well be instrumental in establishing a person and group’s follow of partaking in sexually abusive behaviors,” the litigator says. “Second, prior lawsuits have the affect of alerting the general public to potential risks.”
Saunders provides: “Concern and violence are the simplest instruments used to silence survivors. These instruments will solely lose their efficacy when managers, artists, producers, composers, set designers, dancers, stylists and others inside the music trade function witnesses, litigants and advocates.”
