Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Jonathan Majors BOTH appear on ballot to pick BET Award nominees – amid rapper’s multiple mounting lawsuits and actor’s domestic violence conviction

Controversial stars Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Jonathan Majors have both controversially appeared on a ballot to choose BET Award nominees.

Diddy, 54, who is facing multiple sexual abuse lawsuits, and Majors, 34, who was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, could both be nominated for the awards, which take place on June 30.

The first round of voting to determine the nominees began this week, per THRwith Combs’ The Love Album: Off the Grid on the election list for album of the year, while the album track Closer to God with Teyana Taylor competes for best collaboration.

Diddy’s guest appearance on Metro Boomin’s Creepin, also with The Weeknd and 21 Savage, appears on the ballot for video of the year.

Meanwhile, Majors could take home the Best Actor award as he competes alongside 100 other performers.

Controversial stars Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Jonathan Majors have both controversially appeared on a ballot to choose BET Award nominees

Majors has recently appeared in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp.

Entertainers can be submitted for consideration at the BET Awards through record labels, studios, managers and representatives – with some categories allowing voting members to submit potential nominees in writing. The first round of voting closes on May 7.

This comes weeks after Majors was convicted New York City for a domestic violence case involving ex-girlfriend Jabbari.

In regards to the domestic violence incident, which occurred in March 2023, his harassment charge was dismissed and he was sentenced to probation.

He was also sentenced to a year-long domestic violence intervention program, which he must complete or spend six months in jail.

Jabbari spoke out against him during the sentencing hearing, claiming the actor “has no remorse, he has not accepted responsibility” and would allegedly offend again.

Last month, the legal team representing Combs asked a New York court to dismiss claims that the artist engaged in acts of revenge porn and human trafficking in 1991, as alleged in a lawsuit filed by a woman last fall.

Diddy’s accuser in the case, who has publicly identified herself as Joi Dickerson-Neal, said in legal documents that the 54-year-old music artist drugged and sexually assaulted her in January 1991 in New York City.

The first round of voting to determine the nominees began this week, per THR, with Combs’ The Love Album: Off the Grid on the ballot for album of the year, while the album track Closer to God with Teyana Taylor is in competition for best collaboration

Majors has recently appeared in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp (pictured)

Diddy has denied all the allegations in the lawsuit, and his lawyers called them “false, offensive and lascivious.”

Attorneys for the Grammy-winning artist said in a motion filed Friday that the revenge porn and human trafficking allegations were “covered by laws that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred,” according to court documents reviewed by People.

Dickerson-Neal in legal documents. She was a student at Syracuse University when she came across the hip-hop artist as they dined at a restaurant in Harlem and then headed to a recording studio.

In March, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation.

The criminal investigation marks a major escalation in the scrutiny of Combs, who has been the defendant in several recent sex abuse lawsuits.

In a lawsuit that Combs settled the day after it was filed in November, his former protégé and girlfriend, the R&B singer Cassie, sued him for years of sexual abuse, including rape. According to the lawsuit, he forced her to have sex with male prostitutes while he filmed them.

In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs forced him to recruit prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them. Another of Combs’ accusers was a woman who said he raped her 20 years ago when she was 17.

Combs and his attorneys have denied all allegations in the lawsuits.