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Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing yet ANOTHER lawsuit!
On Monday, a producer on the rapper’s most recent album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, accused him of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and drugging and threatening him. He also claims he has hours of video and audio of Sean and his staff “engaging in serious illegal activity.” Yikes!
In the new lawsuit obtained by NBC News, the music producer, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, notes he lived and traveled with Puff from September 2022 to November 2023. This was while making several tracks for the aforementioned record “under an implied work-for-hire agreement.” That is, he allegedly was not compensated for the songs he produced, even though Combs, Love Records, Motown Records, and Universal Music Group were unjustly enriched at his expense. And because of his time in the 54-year-old’s orbit, the suit says “his life has been detrimentally impacted.”
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Within that time, Sean allegedly forced him to find sex workers and pressured him into engaging in unwanted sex acts with them to please Combs. To help with allegedly recruiting sex workers, the Coming Home artist gave Jones “an exclusive Bad Boy baseball cap,” which he was required to wear at a Miami establishment, for example, “as a signal to any sex worker he approached” that Diddy was in town.
He also alleged that the A-lister gave people who attended parties at his homes alcoholic beverages laced with drugs. To prove this, the lawsuit includes alleged screenshots from parties at the houses, which included underage girls and sex workers, some of whom were given drugged-up drinks allegedly at Combs’ discretion.
Jones went on to allege that his boss sexually harassed and assaulted him while he lived at his homes in Florida, Los Angeles, New York, and on a yacht the musician rented in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This behavior allegedly included “constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus.” He was also supposedly forced to work in Diddy’s bathroom — while he showered naked behind a glass wall!
As for why Rodney went along with it, he insisted that Puff was “forceful and demanding” — and someone who wouldn’t take no for an answer. He also “consistently made it clear that he has immense power in the music industry and with law enforcement,” and allegedly threatened to physically harm him if he didn’t obey his orders. WTF.
When the producer brought up concerns about the treatment to the rapper’s chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, she dismissed the behavior as “friendly horseplay, stating that those acts were Mr. Combs way of ‘showing that he likes you.’” The lawsuit accuses Khoramm of aiding and abetting Combs’ sexual assault of Jones and of working with the performer “to groom him into accepting a homosexual relationship.”
Then there was also an icky incident on February 2, 2023. In the court docs, Lil Rod accused Sean of drugging him, and he claimed that he woke up naked, dizzy, and confused in bed with Diddy and two sex workers. Jeez…
In another concerning incident, Rodney claims Sean forced him to watch as he displayed his guns and bragged about getting away with shooting people, even claiming in a separate incident that he was responsible for a 1999 nightclub shooting with rapper Shyne. Diddy was acquitted of charges connected to that case — but his pal was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
Shockingly, Jones supposedly has much of this behavior in video and audio recordings since the artist required the producer to “record him constantly” and would even use Jones’ phone to record himself. So that could be seriously bad for Diddy, if true.
But Diddy’s not the only one getting called out! Several other people in the star’s circle have also been named in the suit, which was filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Sean’s 30-year-old son, Justin Combs, his chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, and former Motown Records CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam were all listed as defendants. Jones alleges that Grainge, Habtemariam, Motown Records, Love Records, and Universal Music Group worked with Combs in a “RICO enterprise” — a group that violates the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — and “failed to adequately monitor, warn, or supervise” the actions of Combs, his son, and his chief of staff. He is seeking $30 million. Wow!!
While reps for several of the defendants couldn’t be reached, an attorney for P. Diddy, Shawn Holley, clapped back at the filing. he said that Jones’ “reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.” The attorney continued:
“We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”
This is just one of many lawsuits against the rapper at this time, though he has previously denied all allegations against him.
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