Rap billionaire Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing claims he sexually assaulted a man after a record producer sued him for continuous groping and a possible drug-induced rape.
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones says he was tasked with recruiting prostitutes and having sex with them for the star’s pleasure, and has hundreds of hours of video documenting his “serious illegal activities.”
The controversial hip-hop star is already facing lawsuits from three women and has lost a large number of commercial deals as a result of the claims.
Jones has named some of the industry’s biggest names as co-defendants in the $30 million lawsuit, alleging that record executive Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’ groping as “friendly play” and his way of “showing he likes you.” ‘.
The star has denied the existing allegations against him, calling them “sickening,” and his lawyer dismissed Jones’ claims as “pure fiction.”
Rapper and music industry mogul Sean Combs was sued on November 16 by singer Cassie, who accused him of rape and physical abuse before the case was settled out of court.
The star received the key to New York City last September with sons Quincy Brown and Justin Combs in Times Square
Record producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones claims he was groomed and abused for a year
“Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit looking for an undeserved payday,” attorney Shawn Holley told TMZ.
“His reckless name-dropping of events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to grab headlines.
“We have overwhelming, indisputable evidence that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this evidence with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls.”
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.
“Mr. Jones agreed, and his life has been negatively impacted ever since,” the lawsuit alleges.
For over a year, he had to endure “constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus” both at Combs’ homes in Florida, Los Angeles and New York, and on a rented yacht in the US Virgin Islands.
Combs introduced him to Cuba Gooding Jr. on the yacht where the actor allegedly began “touching, groping and caressing Mr. Jones’ legs, his upper inner thighs near his crotch, the small of his back near his buttocks and his shoulders.”
He claims he was also sexually assaulted by a cousin of Combs’ girlfriend Yung Miami and forced to watch a video of producer Stevie J having sex with another man.
According to the lawsuit, Jones was made to work in Combs’ bathroom, where the star would shower naked behind a glass screen.
The producer claims that Combs bragged about shooting people threatened to cause bodily harm if Jones did not comply with his demands.
He says the “powerful and demanding” star has privately admitted his involvement in a nightclub shooting in 1999, during which he was acquitted of gun possession and bribery charges.
“Mr. Combs has consistently made it clear that he has enormous power in the music industry and in law enforcement,” the lawsuit alleges.
Jones claims that underage girls and sex workers were guests at the star’s house parties and that he saw the star drugging their drinks.
He also claims he was ordered to go to bars and entertainment venues in Miami to recruit sex workers, and says he himself was drugged in February last year before waking up naked, dizzy and confused in bed with Combs and two sex workers.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and also names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of staff Kristina Khorram and Sir Lucian Grange, CEO of Universal Music Group, as defendants.
It accuses Khorram of “grooming” him on behalf of Combs and claims that Motown Records, Love Records and Universal Music Group formed a “Rico Corporation” that Combs and his inner circle “failed to adequately monitor, warn, or supervise.”
Earlier this week, Combs was forced to deny raping a 17-year-old girl at his Manhattan recording studio, claiming a photo of her sitting on his lap was “inaccurate.”
He has never been convicted and recently settled a rape lawsuit filed by R&B singer Cassie just one day after it was filed.
In December, he issued a statement denying the allegations against him and saying “enough is enough.” “Let me be very clear: I did not do any of the horrible things that have been alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth,” he added.