Sean Combs is already going through a number of sexual assault lawsuits, and now the producer of his newest launch The Love Album: Off The Grid goes after the performer for $30 million in a biting authorized motion.
In a grievance filed at present in federal courtroom in New York, Rodney Jones Jr., AKA Lil Rod claims the “forceful and demanding” music mogul who goes by Diddy, compelled him to have intercourse with prostitutes, and undergo fixed groping of his genitals. Revealing a Combs’ managed alleged decadent world of cash and energy performs, Jones exclaims he was subjected to a potential drugging and rape, ritual humiliation, and being quick modified greater than $50,000 for his work on the September 15, 2023 launched Love report.
The arresting 70-page swimsuit from Jones goes on to say that the 54-year-old Combs sought to “groom him into accepting a gay relationship …a traditional apply within the music trade.”
Represented by lawyer Tyrone Bladkburn, Jones additionally claims {that a} “RICO enterprise” exists that repeatedly “did not adequately monitor, warn, or supervise” Combs. A conspiracy that’s being perpetuated by a number of the strongest folks within the music enterprise. To that finish, Common Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge and ex-Motown CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam are named as defendants too, together with Diddy, his high aide Kristina Khorram and the star’s 30-year-old son Justin
“All through his time with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones witnessed, skilled, and endured many issues that went far past his function as a Producer on the Love album,” the closely photograph illustrated swimsuit says. Noting that “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to report him continuously,” the submitting asserts that “Mr. Jones has secured lots of of hours of footage and audio data of Mr. Combs, his employees, and his company partaking in critical criminality.”
Over the 12 months and two months that Jones labored with Combs everywhere in the nation on the multi-producer Love Album, the plaintiff states that he was launched to a few of his de facto boss’ well-known pals – and it didn’t all the time go effectively. In a single occasion, Jones particulars assembly Cuba Gooding Jr, who has had run in of his personal over misconduct accusations, and that the Oscar winner ended up “touching, groping, and fondling Mr. Jones’s legs, his higher inside thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks and his shoulders.”
Requested to deal with stated criminality and the accusations on this most up-to-date sexual assault allegation in opposition to Combs, lawyer Shawn Holley stated in a broadly distributed assertion that “Lil Rod is nothing greater than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit, shamelessly searching for an undeserved payday.”
“His reckless name-dropping about occasions which are pure fiction and easily didn’t occur is nothing greater than a clear try and garner headlines,” the Kinsella Holley Iser Kump Steinsapir LLP associate added. “We’ve overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies. We’ll tackle these outlandish allegations in courtroom and take all acceptable motion in opposition to those that make them.”
Justin Combs was much more unequivocal in his and his father’s protection.
“Justin Combs categorically denies these absurd allegations,” a spokesperson advised Deadline. “They’re all lies! It is a clear instance of a determined particular person taking determined measures in hopes of a pay day. There can be authorized penalties for ALL defamatory statements made concerning the Combs household.”
Jones lawyer Tyrone Blackburn didn’t reply to request for touch upon the lawsuit he filed for his consumer. If and when, Mr. Blackburn does reply, this publish can be up to date.
Whereas the primary sexual assault from a person, at present’s submitting comes after Combs has been hit with 4 earlier sexual assault fits from girls late final 12 months, together with his ex-longtime girlfriend Cassandra Ventura. That motion was settled for an apparently vital however confidential sum inside 24-hours of the explosive matter being put within the courtroom docket in New York final November. Taking a stance that everybody is out for a “payday,” Combs has been subsequently most lately till at present accused of intercourse trafficking and collaborating within the gang rape of an 11th grader in 2003.
In a response submitting final week within the case of the now grownup Jane Doe, Combs stated he “by no means participated in, witnessed, or was or is presently conscious of any misconduct, sexual or in any other case, referring to plaintiff in any circumstance by any means.” The swimsuit violates Combs’ “rights underneath the U.S. Structure and the New York State Structure,” and must be dismissed, the 11-page response from Holley and a bevy of different legal professionals provides.
Jane Doe’s lawyer Doug Wigdor was fast to dismiss the try at dismissal.
“The deeply troubling allegations in opposition to the defendants by a number of girls communicate for themselves, Wigdor stated on February 20. “The ridiculous declare that the photographs are by some means faux and the regulation at situation is unconstitutional are nothing greater than determined makes an attempt to conjure a protection the place none exists.”
