Producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones has filed an explosive lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs accusing the embattled media mogul of sexually harassing and threatening him for more than a year, in addition to obtaining images of Diddy and several of his associates involved in illicit crimes. behavior and alleged sexual assault.
Jones, who is seeking $30 million in the federal lawsuit, named several prominent entertainment business figures in the lawsuit. But only Diddy's son Justin Dior Combs, Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Charles Grainge, former Motown Records CEO Ethiopian Habtemariam, Chalice Recording Studios, record labels and Diddy's chief of staff are named. , Kristina “KK” Khorram, Love Records and Combs Enterprises. as accused. The staking network, Jones asserted, amounts to a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
The Chicago-born producer, who produced nine songs on Diddy's 2023 “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In the 75-page complaint, obtained Tuesday by The Times, his attorney Tyrone A. Blackburn said Jones' “life has been adversely affected since” he agreed to produce the album in August 2022. Jones alleged that he was “under an implied “work for hire” with Combs and that he lived with the record giant for months at Combs' homes in Los Angeles, New York and Miami, as well as several weeks on a yacht chartered by Combs in the U.S. Virgin Islands. from USA
“Throughout his time with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones witnessed, experienced and endured many things that went far beyond his role as producer on the Love album,” the complaint said, and that Combs “demanded ” to Jones to “record it. constantly.”
The multi-instrumentalist, who describes himself as a “straight Christian man,” alleged that he was “a victim of constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus by Mr. Combs” and that he felt “uncomfortable with the Mr. Combs' insinuations.” airing his grievances to Diddy's chief of staff, who allegedly told him “you know, Sean will be Sean” in response. Blackburn described Khorram as “the Ghislaine Maxwell of Sean Combs Jeffrey Epstein.”
He also alleged that Combs attempted to groom him into having sexual relations with fellow producer Steven Aaron Jordan (“Stevie J”) and “vowed to ensure that Mr. Jones won producer of the year at the Grammys if he engaged in homosexuality.” ”. He also provided Jones with alleged images of people engaging in sexual activity at Combs' home, which Jones believed were obtained through hidden cameras throughout Diddy's properties.
“Mr. Combs possesses compromising images of every person who has attended his wild parties and house parties,” the complaint states. “Upon information and belief, because of this trove of evidence in his possession, Mr. “Combs believes he is above the law and untouchable.”
Jones also alleged that he was sexually assaulted by a cousin or assistant rapper Yung Miami, who has dated Diddy; she was harassed and sexually assaulted by Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.; and she obtained images of a rapper and an R&B singer (whose names have been redacted from the complaint) associating with underage girls and sex workers.
“On several occasions, Mr. Combs took Mr. Jones’ cell phone and began recording himself. “As a result, Mr. Jones has obtained HUNDREDS of hours of images and audio recordings of Mr. Combs, his staff and his guests engaging in serious illegal activity,” the complaint says, which includes screenshots of several of the incidents mentioned. in the complaint.
The producer said he “obtained irrefutable evidence” of illicit activity, including Combs' provision of mixed alcoholic beverages to minors and sex workers in their homes and the rapper's acquisition, use and distribution of ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana and mushrooms, as well as display and distribution of illegal unregistered firearms.
Jones said he was at Chalice Recording Studios in Los Angeles when a shooting occurred on September 12, 2022, and accused Combs of giving him “strict instructions to inform the police that [Combs] It had nothing to do with the shooting. He also forced Mr. Jones to lie to the police by telling them that a passing assailant shot G while he was outside the studio.” The lawsuit describes G as a 30-year-old friend of Justin Combs.
Jones alleged that he still has the blood-stained clothing he wore that day while helping the victim and provided screenshots of what happened in the bathroom “where Mr. Combs or J. Combs shot G.”
Jones also accused Khorram of directing his staff to recover the drugs so he could provide them to Combs for consumption. He also said the footage also shows Diddy's son, Christian Combs, drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.
Additionally, he accused Combs of detailing how he planned to leverage his relationship with Bishop TD Jakes “to soften the impact on his public image of Cassie Ventura's lawsuit.” That rape and abuse lawsuit, filed and settled last November, began Diddy's precipitous fall from grace over the past few months. Diddy has since been accused of sexual assault by more women and resigned from his position as president of Revolt TV, the media company he co-founded in 2013.
Jones, who previously made a public plea on social media for Combs to pay him for his work on the album, accused Love Records, Motown and UMG of “unjustly enriching themselves” at his expense.
In a Tuesday statement to the Times, Combs' attorney, Shawn Holley, called Jones a liar and accused him of “blatantly seeking an undeserved payday.”
“Your reckless mention of events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to grab headlines,” Holley's statement read.
“We have overwhelming and indisputable evidence that their 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,” Holley said. “We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those making them.”
