Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has fired again at file producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who sued him for fixed groping and a attainable drug-induced rape.
Jones filed go well with in February – simply weeks earlier than two of Combs’ properties had been raided by federal brokers amid a intercourse trafficking probe.
Now, as he faces a blizzard of allegations, Combs’ authorized workforce is in search of to throw Jones’ credibility into query by unearthing the accuser’s personal previous interactions with the prison justice system.
Combs’ attorneys identified that Jones was convicted of a reckless murder in 2003, and that he has confronted a number of assault fees that had been later dismissed.
Jones’ lawyer Tyrone Blackburn has 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 automobile whereas driving, tragically killing his cousin and ‘finest buddy,’ who was seated beside him.Â
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (pictured) has fired again at file producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who sued him for fixed groping and a attainable drug-induced rape
Jones (pictured) filed go well with in February – simply weeks earlier than two of Combs’ properties had been raided by federal brokers amid a intercourse trafficking probe
Court docket paperwork obtained by Web page Six indicated that Jones confronted a misdemeanor sexual assault cost in 2006, adopted by home assault fees in 2009 and 2014 – however that in all circumstances the costs had 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.’Â
With regard to the conviction that did happen, Blackburn mentioned: ‘Mr. Jones’ July 2003 reckless murder occurred when he was 17 years previous.’
Jones’ legal professional continued: ‘He was driving a automobile together with his cousin within the passenger seat. The police pulled him over, however he was afraid and drove off. It was fairly typical habits for a younger black boy in Chicago when pulled over by the police. Because of this, he totaled the automobile, and his cousin, who was his finest buddy, died.’
Blackburn asserted that Jones pled responsible, being with out ‘sufficient authorized illustration,’ and added that his shopper ‘has to dwell with the guilt of the demise of his finest buddy and member of the family for the remainder of his life.’
Within the lawsuit he filed towards Combs in February, 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 ‘severe criminal activity’.
At the moment, the embattled hip-hop star was already going through lawsuits from three ladies and had misplaced a bunch of business offers within the wake of the claims.
Jones has named a number of the trade’s largest names as co-defendants within the $30 million go well with, claiming file boss Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’s groping as ‘pleasant horseplay’, and his method of ‘displaying that he likes you’.
In his lawsuit, Jones claims he was subjected to a yr of grooming and abuseÂ
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 court docket
Combs has denied the prevailing allegations towards 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 on the lookout 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 provide a number 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’ properties 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 inside 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 woman 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 towards him in a tweet that has already been seen 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 Occasions 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 file producer Stevie J having intercourse with one other man.
Jones was required to work in Combs’ toilet the place the star would bathe bare behind a glass display, in keeping with the lawsuit.
The producer alleges Combs boasted of getting shot individuals and threatened to inflict bodily hurt if Jones didn’t comply together with his calls for.
He says the ‘forceful and demanding’ star privately admitted involvement in a 1999 nightclub capturing that noticed him acquitted of gun possession and bribery fees.
‘Mr Combs constantly made it clear that he has immense energy within the music trade and with regulation enforcement,’ the lawsuit claims.
Jones claims that underage ladies and intercourse employees had 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 employees, and says he himself was drugged in February final yr earlier than he awoke bare, dizzy and confused in mattress with Combs and two intercourse employees.
The go well with 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 attainable to have these issues addressed and resolved (pretty) however in non-public,’ he wrote.
‘Nevertheless, Diddy’s negotiation techniques, to stall communications, dry out (my) funds, and have me negotiating out of desperation or with no actual technique of preventing again has compelled me right here!’
His lawsuit additionally names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of workers 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 Data, Love Data and Common Music Group comprised a ‘Rico enterprise’ that ‘didn’t adequately monitor, warn or supervise’ Combs and his inside circle.
A spokesman for Justin Combs mentioned he ‘categorically denies these absurd allegations’.
‘They’re all lies!’ he added, ‘It is a clear instance of a determined individual taking determined measures in hopes of a pay day.’Â Â
Earlier this week Combs senior was compelled to disclaim gang-raping a 17-year-old woman in his Manhattan recording studio, claiming {a photograph} of her sitting in his lap ‘is not correct’.
His submitting in the identical New York court docket denies her declare that Combs, his longtime buddy Harve Pierre and a 3rd unidentified man flew her to his New York studio earlier than plying her with ‘copious quantities of medicine and alcohol in 2003.
At the moment that Jones filed go well with, Combs had just lately fortified his authorized workforce with new attorneys, in keeping with Rolling Stone.
They embody Bobbi C Sternheim, who defended Ghislaine Maxwell, and Shawn Holley, who efficiently bought 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 images 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 Nineties.
Combs despatched out a tweet denying the accusations in December and saying that each one allegations made towards him are from individuals ‘on the lookout 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 will have featured his household, in December.
Jones’s go well with 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 towards drinks big 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 just lately settled a bombshell rape lawsuit introduced by his ex-girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie – simply sooner or later after it was filed.
In December he issued an announcement denying the allegations towards 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 title, my household and for the reality,’ he added.