‘Diddy’ in US$30m bombshell suit
LOS ANGELES - Rap billionaire Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing claims he sexually abused a man after a record producer sued him for constant groping and a possible drug-induced rape.
Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones says he was ordered to recruit prostitutes and have sex with them for the star’s pleasure, and has hundreds of hours of video documenting Combs’s ‘serious illegal activity’.
The embattled Hip Hop star is already facing lawsuits from three women and has lost a host of commercial deals in the wake of the claims.
Jones has named some of the industry’s biggest names as co-defendants in the US$30 million suit, claiming record boss Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’s groping as ‘friendly horseplay’, and his way of ‘showing that he likes you’.
The star has denied the existing allegations against him, calling them ‘sickening’, and his lawyer dismissed Jones’s claims as ‘pure fiction’.
“Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a US$30 billion lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday,” Attorney Shawn Holley told TMZ.
“His 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 Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr Blackburn refuses to return our calls.”
Combs recruited Jones in August 2022 to produce some of the songs on the R&B album ‘The Love Album: Off the Grid’ which was nominated for a Grammy after its release in September 2023.