Attorneys for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ accusers Cassie Ventura and Rodney Jones say they hope he is held ‘responsible for his depraved conduct’ after feds raided rapper’s LA and Miami mansions
Multiple accusers of rapper Diddy have spoken out after Homeland Security agents raided his estates in Los Angeles and Miami to conduct a raid in connection with an ongoing sex trafficking investigation.
The producer and hip-hop mogul – real name Sean Combs – is facing mounting lawsuits for sexual harassment and rape. He was nowhere to be found when officers searched his property Monday afternoon.
Tyrone Blackburn, an attorney for plaintiffs Rodney Jones Jr. and Liza Gardner, greeted the news in a statement to Rolling Stone.
“About damn time,” Blackburn said. “Sometimes justice delayed is not justice denied, as long as justice is delivered.”
Douglas Wigdor, an attorney for Cassie Ventura and another Jane Does accusing Diddy, responded to the search in a statement to DailyMail.com
Multiple accusers of rapper Diddy – including R&B singer Cassie (pictured left) – have spoken out after Homeland Security agents descended on his Los Angeles and Miami estates to conduct a raid in connection with an ongoing sex trafficking investigation
“We will always support law enforcement in prosecuting those who have broken the law. Hopefully, this is the beginning of a process that will hold Mr. Combs accountable for his depraved behavior.”
Last month, Jones alleged that Combs subjected him to groping and “constant unsolicited touching of his anus” for a year.
He says he was instructed to recruit prostitutes and have sex with them for the star’s pleasure, and has hundreds of hours of video documenting Combs’ “serious illegal activities.”
Jones has named some of the industry’s biggest names as co-defendants in the $30 million lawsuit involving record executive E.thiopia HAbtemariam dismissed Combs’ groping as “friendly play” and his way of “showing he likes you.”
Combs recruited Jones in August 2022 to produce some songs on the R&B album “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” which was nominated for a Grammy upon its release in September 2023.
In November 2023, Cassie, whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, accused Combs of rape and repeated physical abuse.
The lawsuit alleges that he controlled and abused Cassie for more than a decade, plying her with drugs, beating her and forcing her to have sex with multiple male prostitutes while he watched and recorded.
The couple, who met in 2005 when she was 19 years old, split in 2018. The lawsuit alleged that just before the end of their relationship, he broke into her home and raped her.
Tyrone Blackburn, an attorney for plaintiffs Rodney Jones Jr. (pictured) and Liza Gardner, greeted the news in a statement, saying it was “about damn time.”
Diddy was nowhere to be found when federal agents searched his property Monday afternoon
Diddy, 54, vehemently denied all the “offensive and outrageous allegations.”
Gardner has accused Combs and R&B singer Aaron Hall of assaulting both her and a friend at Hall’s apartment in the early 1990s, when Gardner was just 16 years old.
“The claims alleging misconduct against Mr. Combs dating back more than 30 years and filed at the last minute are all fully denied and dismissed by him,” a statement on behalf of the mogul said at the time. NBC News.
‘He sees this as a money grab. “Mr. Combs’ fame and success makes him an easy target for prosecutors who will distort the truth, without conscience or consequence, for financial gain.”
A spokesperson for Homeland Security Investigations told DailyMail.com in a statement: ‘Earlier today, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York conducted law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation, with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami and our local partners for law enforcement.”
“We will provide further information as it becomes available.”
DailyMail.com has contacted Diddy’s representatives for comment.
The raid comes just weeks after one of Diddy’s accusers was ordered to reveal her identity in a sexual assault lawsuit.
Homeland Security agents have raided rapper Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation
Dozens of officers are seen on video entering the massive Los Angeles estate. Diddy is facing multiple allegations of sexual abuse
At least two previously unidentified men were seen in handcuffs at his Holmby Hills property
The rapper and music mogul has fought several legal battles, including one against an unnamed woman who alleged that he and two friends sexually assaulted her when she was 17.
Rolling Stone reported Monday that “four Jane Does and one John Doe” have already been interviewed by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York “for an investigation related to alleged sex trafficking, domestic violence and racketeering,” and it says even more planned.
DailyMail.com has contacted lawyers for Diddy’s other publicly named accusers, including Joi Dickerson-Neal, for comment.
A police line was set up Monday around the Los Angeles home in the wealthy Holmby Hills neighborhood near Beverly Hills, where at least two men were placed in handcuffs.
Armed agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered luxury properties on both the east and west coasts of the United States, with video from helicopters circling overhead.
The officers, wearing vests, gathered in the backyard of the house, near the pool. Multiple law enforcement officers were seen carrying bags and boxes of evidence to a van.
Combs, 54, founded the Bad Boy record label in 1993 and was a major figure in the commercialization of hip-hop in the decades that followed. His protégés included the late Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige.
He is among the billionaires in the sector, thanks in no small part to his ventures in the drinks industry.
But contrary to the public image of a friendly businessman, Combs is described in court papers as a violent man who used his celebrity to rob and intimidate women.