Last November, Cassie sued Sean “Diddy” Combs in federal court. Cassie and Combs had been in a relationship for many years, and during that time, he trafficked her to other men, he physically abused her and emotionally abused her. When Cassie sued him, Combs released an outraged statement denying everything… and then 24 hours later, he settled out of court. That was basically the beginning of the end for Combs. Following Cassie’s now-settled claim, multiple women have come out, making all kinds of claims about Combs’ vile behavior in personal and professional relationships. I believed every single one of them. A male producer is now suing Combs, claiming that Combs drugged him, sexually harassed him and a lot more:
Sean “Diddy” Combs was sued Monday in federal court by a producer on his most recent album, who accuses the music mogul of sexually harassing, drugging and threatening him over more than a year. The producer, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, says in the lawsuit that he lived and traveled with Combs from September 2022 to November 2023, during which time he recorded hours of video and audio of Combs, his staff and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.”
Among the allegations is that Combs forced Jones to procure sex workers and pressured him to engage in unwelcomed sex acts with them and others and that Combs gave laced alcoholic beverages to people who attended parties at his homes.
The lawsuit includes what it says are screenshots from gatherings hosted at Combs’ homes that included underage girls and sex workers, some of whom he said were provided drinks that had been laced with drugs at Combs’ direction.
The suit, filed in U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York, also names Combs’ adult son, Justin; his chief of staff, Kristina Khorram; Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge; and former Motown Records CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam as defendants. Jones says in the lawsuit that Grainge, Habtemariam, Motown Records, Love Records and Universal Music Group effectively worked together with Combs in a “RICO enterprise” that “failed to adequately monitor, warn, or supervise” the actions of Combs, his son and his chief of staff. A RICO enterprise is any individuals or groups that act together to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Jones is seeking $30 million.
An attorney for Combs said 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.”
“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,” the attorney, Shawn Holley, said in a statement. “We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”
Combs’ lawyer’s denial sounds familiar – the lawyer had a similar hissy fit when Cassie sued Combs, claiming that they had proof that Cassie was lying. Combs still settled quickly. While I have no proof of this, I would assume that’s all part of a legal/PR strategy, to get a denial out there quickly, throw suspicion on the victim and their story, and then settle out of court with an NDA attached. Anyway, the slow-motion downfall of Sean Combs is quite something, and my mind has been blown for months now that he’s such a predator, abuser and degenerate.
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Correct me if I’m wrong but my memory is telling me that Shawn Holley is a black woman who has taken some high profile cases before and man, it’s disappointing to see her defend Puffy. He’s looking more and more like one of those “everyone knew it”/open secret Weinstein cases…God, being a defense lawyer must require having no soul.
Wasn’t Shawn Holley one of O.J. Simpson’s army of lawyers back in the day? If so, Combs is right in her wheelhouse. Anyway, she’s a lawyer. She has some good clients and some…not so much.
She was also one of Chris Brown’s attorneys, if I remember correctly.
oh gross, Chris Brown. You’ve got to believe realllllly hard in that “everyone deserves a defence” argument if that’s who you’re defending.
Shawn Holley was also one of Danny Masterson’s lawyers. At one point, she was asking to delay that case because she was also on the Trevor Bauer sex-assault case. She has a history of defending men who unquestionably engaged in bad behavior but try to pass it off or blame the victim.
I’m pretty sure this is the lawyer who was defending Lindsay Lohan back when her life was a trail of destruction and DUIs
That’s exactly what I remember her from! Lilos umpteen court cases
No doubt it’s a difficult job that requires a level of compartmentalization that most of us do not possess but it’s not fair to call criminal defense attorneys soulless. They have an insanely important and very difficult job to do defending us (The People) against the prosecutor (The State/Government). Remember that Innocent people employ defense attorneys every day and that defending against criminal allegations does not always mean defending a criminal.
That being said, I don’t think that applies here because Combs is guilty AF. Sorrynotsorry.
Kitten,
I cannot agree more. A defense attorneys job is to defend their client. Period.
But Combs is guilty as sin. Both things are true.
Combs’ abuse and horrible behavior has been an open secret for years. I’m glad everyone now knows.
The difference between public defense lawyers vs private lawyers should also be mentioned. Puffy can very well afford to pay this lawyer. This lawyer deliberately took money to defend him. They could have said no and Puffy would just look for another lawyer willing to sell their soul for a lot of money. Unlike, public defenders who get assigned and need to do their best for their clients whether guilty or innocent.
Its great to see that after decades of “rumors” that I, like most people, believed were true, Diddy is finally being held accountable. Hopefully this accountability will eventually lead to jail time. Like R.Kelly, his wealthy benefactors have removed their circle of protection, which I think began when he sued the owners of that liquor company (DeLeon?). After Cassie’s lawsuit, there were rumors that men who had been in those “freak offs” were going to come forward. Diddums (autocorrect but I’m keeping it) former bodyguard Gene Deal has been sounding the alarm about him for years and had been until now, mostly ignored. Another bodyguard had given an interview confirming that D drugged certain drinks and that the men at these parties were told which drinks to avoid. Its scary to think of the power this man wielded and the possible and probable number of women and men he abused and traffick over the last 2+ decades? I hope he’s stupid and selfish enough to try to save himself by taking down all of the wealthy industry execs and other high powered individuals he p*mped these victims out to. I also really hope that the feds are building a case against him and that a huge class action lawsuit is just around the corner.
The fact that he has STILL not been investigated is telling, isn’t it? I’m from NY and have heard about Diddy for eons. He is a serial abuser of both men and women. Stopped effing with him and his music when he took up with Cassie. Clearly an abuse of power and, now, known to be abuse, period.
How long before he settles this case?
Katt Williams was recently hinting at Diddy’s habit of sexually asaulting both women and men, so this case is sadly very plausable.
He’ll settle in no time.
Although, does it make a difference with his audience that his victim here is a man?
Yes, it will. There are people still caping for R. Kelly bc he “only” abused women. THIS is what will get Diddy cancelled. Finally.
Mimi,
Sad but true….it matters more when it happens to men. SMDH
So is the statute of limitations why these are all civil suits? Is there any chance for any of these to be brought against Combs criminally?
A friend of a friend (I don’t know her personally) was brutally raped at one of his parties. She ate a brownie laced with drugs and the men were apparently told at the party to avoid the brownies. She went there and didn’t drink, but she did get hungry and was assured nothing was in the brownies. Her girlfriends (I use that term loosely Geez Louise NEVER leave a woman behind at a party when she is incapacitated in fact never leave anyone behind period) left her there. The story is awful. I won’t get into it it’s so upsetting.
I hope she comes forward and sues him into oblivion. He’s been scum for a long time. I always complain about that halitosis face and those teeth of his hopefully someone rearranges them for him in jail one day. I believe this man and every woman that comes forward.
Sadly, as we saw in the R.Kelley case – a man being assaulted/abused/raped is the final straw for people. They will tolerate women suffering that abuse all day long claiming they are gold diggers, but when a man comes forward you better be properly lawyered up cause that jury is gunning for your ass. This is a sad but true reality of men coming forward versus women. People (not me) think it must be true if they’re coming forward cause no man wants anyone to know they’ve been sexually assaulted. As if women don’t feel / experience the exact same thing when they come forward. Me Too has a long way to go still.
Trash can.
This is such a shitty take on male victims of sexual violence like wow. No need to drag male victims down to uplift female victims and vice versa.
It doesn’t sound to me like she is dragging male victims down. She was explaining that until it happens to me, it never seems as important.
Excuse me? Did you read my post? Where did I drag down ANY victim of sexual violence man or woman? No one trashed a single male victim. Re-read what I wrote. What I said is a male victim is more likely to be believed than a woman. This has been proven time and time again and it’s exactly what people said upthread and what happened in the R. Kelly case which is just one example of it.
Geez Louise, if you’re gonna police the internet get your facts and information straight. Read the post before you make all kinds of BS assumptions. And thank you Renee. So sick of Internet police and they never admit when they are wrong or they erroneously attributed motives to a post that weren’t even there cause they wanna argue and “correct” people that don’t need correcting. SMDH
I figured he was bad, but this organized, leader of r@pe parties, include my son bad? That’s criminal and RICO. Paying millions and NDAs aren’t enough. He needs to join R.Kelly and Weinstein.
So disappointed that he turned out to be a terrible man.
LOVING all of this finally coming to light! It’ll be a good day when this man and his cronies are behind bars with an unfixable reputation and zero dollars to their name. Trash.
Scumbag.
Not surprised about the allegations. Doubtless there is more being held back. It’s been rumored for years that Diddy is on the down low.