Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has filed a movement to dismiss a $30m lawsuit filed by report producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who sued him for fixed groping and a doable drug-induced rape.
Jones filed swimsuit in February – simply weeks earlier than two of Combs’ houses have been raided by federal brokers amid a intercourse trafficking probe.
Jones claimed he was ordered to recruit prostitutes and have intercourse with them for the star’s pleasure, and has a whole lot of hours of video documenting Combs’s ‘critical criminality’. Diddy has denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
At the moment, the embattled hip-hop star was already dealing with lawsuits from three girls and had misplaced a number of business offers within the wake of the claims.
Now Combs, 54, has fired again at Jones’ second amended lawsuit in new courtroom paperwork filed in Manhattan Federal Court docket Monday and obtained by DailyMail.com – accusing him of ‘exploiting’ the star for cash.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has filed a movement to dismiss a $30m lawsuit filed by report producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who sued him for fixed groping and a doable drug-induced rape
Jones filed swimsuit in February – simply weeks earlier than two of Combs’ houses have been raided by federal brokers amid a intercourse trafficking probe. Jones claimed he was ordered to recruit prostitutes and have intercourse with them for the star’s pleasure
The submitting reads: ‘Jones’ Second Amended Criticism is his third try to decorate up a humdrum business disagreement as a salacious RICO [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] conspiracy.
‘Working to just about 100 pages, it consists of numerous tall tales, shameless superstar namedrops, and irrelevant pictures. But, regardless of all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, the SAC fails to state a single viable declare in opposition to any of the Combs Defendants.
‘Replete with legally meaningless allegations and blatant falsehoods, the SAC’s [Second Amended Complaint] true goal is to generate media hype and exploit it to extract a settlement—no shock, on condition that his legal professional was not too long ago referred to this Court docket’s Grievance Committee for participating in a ‘sample’ of ‘improperly fil[ing] circumstances in federal courtroom to garner media consideration, embarrass defendants with salacious allegations, and stress defendants to settle rapidly.’
The paperwork additionally declare Jones posted a video laughing in regards to the lawsuit and joking about cash Diddy must pay him.
‘Taking a web page from his lawyer’s playbook, Jones not too long ago posted a video on the ‘X’ platform by which he, along with a performer often called ‘Uncle Murda,’ laughed about this lawsuit (regardless of his allegations of ‘extreme emotional misery’), demanded Mr. Combs pay him ‘that cash by Monday,’ and warned: ‘I’m from Chicago, we don’t play about our enterprise.’
In his lawsuit, Jones claims he was subjected to a yr of grooming and abuse
‘Just like the SAC, Jones’ videotaped threats on social media are a part of a calculated effort to advertise his private model and revenue from the publicity. Such ways don’t have any place in federal courtroom.’
Combs’ Lawyer, Erica Wolff mentioned: ‘Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction — a shameless try to create media hype and extract a fast settlement.
‘There was no RICO conspiracy and Mr. Jones was not threatened, groomed, assaulted, or trafficked. We look ahead to proving – in a courtroom of legislation – that every one of Mr. Jones’s claims are made-up and have to be dismissed.’
Diddy shot again at Jones’ claims his ‘enterprise or property’ was damage on account of non-payment for companies he carried out on Diddy’s 2023 The Love Album: Off The Grid – saying he didn’t show this beneath the RICO Act.
The paperwork additionally allege Jones by no means supplied a main declare beneath the Trafficking Victims Safety Act of 2000 – exhibiting that he was compelled to commit a intercourse act in change for one thing of worth, or fall sufferer to any such act.
Diddy additionally claims Jones failed to supply particulars describing the alleged sexual assault claims and sexual harassment claims he made in opposition to the star.
Concerning an argument over breach of oral contract, Diddy says that has run past the statute of limitations.
Jones’ legal professional Tyrone Blackburn informed TMZ: ‘That is clearly a billing train by Combs’ newest set of attorneys, who’re late to the sport and try to fill their pockets with this Hail Mary movement to dismiss earlier than their shopper is indicted.’
Diddy denies inflicting Jones emotional misery and says he ‘failed to point out [Combs] exercised management over premises the place third events dedicated alleged assaults.
In April Combs’ authorized workforce sought to throw Jones’ credibility into query by unearthing the accuser’s personal previous interactions with the felony justice system.
Combs’ attorneys identified that Jones was convicted of a reckless murder in 2003, and that he has confronted a number of assault prices that have been later dismissed.
Combs was sued November 16 by his ex-girlfriend, the singer Cassie, who accused him of rape and bodily abuse earlier than the case was settled out of courtroom
Blackburn sprung to his shopper’s protection, responding to the assault claims by reminding Page Six that ‘a cost shouldn’t be a conviction.’
He then defined the murder by saying Jones by chance ‘totaled’ a automotive whereas driving, tragically killing his cousin and ‘finest good friend,’ who was seated beside him.
Court docket paperwork obtained by Web page Six indicated that Jones confronted a misdemeanor sexual assault cost in 2006, adopted by home assault prices in 2009 and 2014 – however that in all circumstances the costs have been in the end dismissed.
Confronted with the details about the assault circumstances, Blackburn retorted: ‘I’m positive you realize {that a} cost shouldn’t be a conviction.’
With regard to the conviction that did happen, Blackburn mentioned: ‘Mr. Jones’ July 2003 reckless murder occurred when he was 17 years outdated.’
Jones’ legal professional continued: ‘He was driving a car along with his cousin within the passenger seat. The police pulled him over, however he was afraid and drove off. It was fairly typical conduct for a younger black boy in Chicago when pulled over by the police. Because of this, he totaled the car, and his cousin, who was his finest good friend, died.’
Blackburn asserted that Jones pled responsible, being with out ‘enough authorized illustration,’ and added that his shopper ‘has to stay with the guilt of the loss of life of his finest good friend and member of the family for the remainder of his life.’
Jones has named a few of the trade’s largest names as co-defendants within the $30 million swimsuit, claiming report boss Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’s groping as ‘pleasant horseplay’, and his means of ‘exhibiting that he likes you’.
Combs has denied the present allegations in opposition to him, calling them ‘sickening’, and his lawyer dismissed Jones’s claims as ‘pure fiction’.
‘Lil Rod is nothing greater than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly searching for an undeserved payday,’ legal professional Shawn Holley informed TMZ.
‘His reckless name-dropping about occasions which are pure fiction and easily didn’t occur is nothing greater than a clear try to garner headlines.
‘We have now overwhelming, indeniable proof that his claims are full lies. Our makes an attempt to share this proof with Mr Jones’ legal professional, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr Blackburn refuses to return our calls.’
Combs recruited Jones in August 2022 to supply a few of the songs on the R&B album ‘The Love Album: Off the Grid’ which was nominated for a Grammy after its launch in September 2023.
‘Mr Jones agreed, and his life has been detrimentally impacted ever since,’ the lawsuit claims.
For greater than a yr he endured ‘fixed unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus’, at Combs’ houses in Florida, Los Angeles and New York, in addition to on a rented yacht within the US Virgin Islands, Jones asserted.
Combs launched him to Cuba Gooding Jr on the yacht the place the actor allegedly started ‘touching, groping, and fondling Mr Jones’s legs, his higher interior thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks and his shoulders’.
Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs has denied gang-raping a 17-year-old lady in his Manhattan recording studio in 2003 whereas claiming {a photograph} of her sitting in his lap (pictured) ‘is not correct’
Inside an hour of December’s lawsuit being filed, Combs emphatically denied all accusations in opposition to him in a tweet that has already been considered by a whole lot of 1000’s of individuals
The star obtained the important thing to New York Metropolis alongside sons Quincy Brown and Justin Combs in Instances Sq. in September final yr
He claims he was additionally sexually assaulted by a feminine cousin of Combs’s girlfriend Yung Miami and compelled to observe a video of report producer Stevie J having intercourse with one other man.
Jones was required to work in Combs’ lavatory the place the star would bathe bare behind a glass display screen, in line with the lawsuit.
The producer alleges Combs boasted of getting shot folks and threatened to inflict bodily hurt if Jones didn’t comply along with his calls for.
He says the ‘forceful and demanding’ star privately admitted involvement in a 1999 nightclub taking pictures that noticed him acquitted of gun possession and bribery prices.
‘Mr Combs persistently made it clear that he has immense energy within the music trade and with legislation enforcement,’ the lawsuit claims.
Jones claims that underage women and intercourse staff have been company on the star’s home events and that he noticed the star drug their drinks.
He additionally claims he was ordered to Miami trawl bars and nightspots to recruit intercourse staff, and says he himself was drugged in February final yr earlier than he awakened bare, dizzy and confused in mattress with Combs and two intercourse staff.
The swimsuit was filed on Monday on the US District Court docket for the Southern District of New York three weeks after Jones launched a Gofundme enchantment asking for cash to sue the rapper for unpaid royalties.
‘For the higher a part of the previous 6 months, my workforce and I’ve prolonged each alternative we knew doable to have these issues addressed and resolved (pretty) however in personal,’ he wrote.
‘Nonetheless, Diddy’s negotiation ways, to stall communications, dry out (my) funds, and have me negotiating out of desperation or with out a actual technique of preventing again has compelled me right here!’
His lawsuit additionally names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of employees Kristina Khorram, and Common Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grange as defendants.
It accuses Khorram of ‘grooming’ him on Combs’s behalf and claims that Motown Information, Love Information and Common Music Group comprised a ‘Rico enterprise’ that ‘didn’t adequately monitor, warn or supervise’ Combs and his interior circle.
A spokesman for Justin Combs mentioned he ‘categorically denies these absurd allegations’.
‘They’re all lies!’ he added, ‘This can be a clear instance of a determined individual taking determined measures in hopes of a pay day.’
Combs senior was compelled to disclaim gang-raping a 17-year-old lady in his Manhattan recording studio, claiming {a photograph} of her sitting in his lap ‘is not correct’.
His submitting in the identical New York courtroom denies her declare that Combs, his longtime good friend Harve Pierre and a 3rd unidentified man flew her to his New York studio earlier than plying her with ‘copious quantities of medication and alcohol in 2003.
At the moment that Jones filed swimsuit, Combs had not too long ago fortified his authorized workforce with new attorneys, in line with Rolling Stone.
They embody Bobbi C Sternheim, who defended Ghislaine Maxwell, and Shawn Holley, who efficiently obtained Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer reinstated with Main League Baseball amid sexual assault allegations.
Combs’ co-defendant Pierre additionally filed a denial saying he ‘by no means participated within the sexual assault of the plaintiff nor did he ever witness anybody else sexually assaulting the plaintiff’.
The nameless accuser, now in her late 30s, has backed her bombshell claims with now-contested pictures of herself sitting on the I will Be Lacking You singer’s lap and goofing round in his Manhattan studio.
After Ventura launched her lawsuit, Liza Gardner and Joie Dickerson-Neal additionally filed papers claiming the rapper sexually assaulted them within the early Nineteen Nineties.
Combs despatched out a tweet denying the accusations in December and saying that every one allegations made in opposition to him are from folks ‘searching for a fast payday’.
The star stepped down as chairman of Revolt TV in November and noticed Hulu scrap a deliberate actuality TV present that might have featured his household, in December.
Jones’s swimsuit was filed on Monday on the US District Court docket for the Southern District of New York three weeks after Jones launched a Gofundme enchantment asking for cash to sue the rapper for unpaid royalties
In January he withdrew his lawsuit in opposition to drinks large Diageo which he had accused of racism over its therapy of his sponsorship deal.
Shortly thereafter, thereafter he skipped the Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles regardless of being nominated for the primary time in 20 years in one of the best progressive R&B Album class for the album that Jones helped produce.
He has by no means been convicted, and not too long ago settled a bombshell rape lawsuit introduced by his ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie – simply in the future after it was filed.
In December he issued an announcement denying the allegations in opposition to him, saying ‘sufficient is sufficient’. ‘Let me be completely clear: I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged. I’ll battle for my identify, my household and for the reality,’ he added.