Diddy has filed to have Rodney Jones’ lawsuit dismissed, claiming Jones is merely attempting to stress Puff right into a settlement.
Diddy Information to Have Lawsuit Dismissed
On Monday (Aug. 26), XXL obtained a movement filed by Diddy’s authorized crew within the U.S. District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York. The movement claims Jones’ disturbing lawsuit— which was amended in March to accuse Puff of intercourse trafficking and being a part of a “RICO enterprise” — is nothing greater than a “run-of-the-mill industrial disagreement” that Jones tried to take advantage of as a “salacious RICO conspiracy.”
“Operating to almost 100 pages, it consists of numerous tall tales, shameless superstar namedrops, and irrelevant pictures,” the movement reads. “But regardless of all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, [Jones] fails to state a single viable declare towards any of Combs Defendants.”
Regarding the intercourse trafficking allegations, Diddy’s crew pushed again on Jones’ assertion he was a sufferer of “any industrial intercourse act.”
“The criticism additionally fails to state a [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] declare straight or not directly towards Combs International as a result of there are not any allegations that Combs International participated in or benefitted from any alleged industrial intercourse act involving Jones,” the movement reads.
In his unique lawsuit filed again in February, Rodney Jones claimed that Diddy sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him whereas he labored with the embattled mogul on The Love Album: Off the Grid. Puff’s newest movement known as Jones’ allegations obscure, and stated Jones couldn’t recall particular situations of any sexual harassment.
“Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction,” Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff stated in an announcement shared with XXL. “There was no RICO conspiracy and Mr. Jones was not threatened, groomed, assaulted or trafficked. We sit up for proving — in a court docket of legislation — that every one of Mr. Jones’s claims are made up and have to be dismissed.”
Jones is requesting a jury trial and is looking for unspecified damages. When reached for remark, Jones’ lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, instructed XXL, “That is nothing greater than a billing train by Sean Combs’ newest set of legal professionals. It’s a weak try and fill their pockets earlier than he’s indicted, and so they resolve to haul a*s, identical to his 5 earlier legal professionals did.”
Blackburn added that the salacious nature of the lawsuit is just because the details are that disturbing.
“If their consumer doesn’t interact in salacious conduct, I might not have something salacious to file. I choose my shoppers; I don’t choose their details,” Blackburn added. “Discover that there is no such thing as a affidavit from Sean Combs and no protection from Justin Combs. Rodney Jones filed an affidavit underneath penalty of perjury to the reality of the matter asserted within the submitting. Can Sean Combs do the identical?”
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Rodney Jones Accuses Diddy of Abuse and Unpaid Work
Jones’ filed the lawsuit again in February and accused the mogul of widespread abuse throughout the producer time’s time residing at Puff’s home from September of 2022 to November of 2023.
“All through his time with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones witnessed, skilled, and endured many issues that went far past his position as a Producer on the Love album,” the court docket submitting learn. “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to document him continuously. On a number of events, Mr. Combs took Mr. Jones cellphone and started recording himself. Because of this, Mr. Jones has secured HUNDREDS of hours of footage and audio recordings of Mr. Combs, his employees, and his friends participating in severe criminal activity.”
Nicki Minaj can also be talked about within the lawsuit as being the girlfriend of a “Philadelphia rapper” that Diddy instructed Jones he had intercourse with. Jones moreover claimed he noticed the identical rapper “consorting with underage ladies” on Diddy’s yacht alongside Puff.
This is only one of many authorized battles which have befallen Diddy over the past a number of months for his alleged violent and unlawful acts previously.
