Sean “Diddy” Combs requested a federal decide Monday to throw out a lawsuit from a music producer who accused the music mogul of a broad sample of sexual abuse and different misconduct.
The lawsuit filed in February by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones — one in every of many filed in opposition to Combs prior to now 12 months — is overrun with “tall tales,” “lurid theatrics,” “legally meaningless allegations” and “blatant falsehoods” whose intent is barely to “generate media hype and exploit it to extract a settlement,” in keeping with the movement to dismiss filed in federal court docket in New York.
The case fails to ascertain that Jones has standing to sue, doesn’t embody important particulars together with instances and locations of the incidents described and “fails to make a single viable declare,” in keeping with the movement.
A number of lawsuits alleging sexual and different abuse in opposition to Combs had already been filed when Jones sued in February, however the circumstances surrounding the hip-hop star have grown extra dire since.
In March, simultaneous raids on Combs’ houses in Florida and California led to the revelation that he was the topic of a federal legal intercourse trafficking investigation that’s ongoing.
And in Might, CNN aired 2016 lodge safety video that confirmed him punching, kicking and dragging the R& B singer Cassie, who was his protege and longtime girlfriend on the time. The incident intently matched an outline in a lawsuit she filed in November that was settled the next day however set off intense scrutiny of Combs.
Just a few days after the video’s airing, Combs posted an apology video on social media saying he was “actually sorry” and his actions had been “inexcusable.”
Jones’ sprawling lawsuit, which additionally names Combs’ son and several other of his enterprise associates as defendants, describes a 12 months he spent within the music mogul’s life in Los Angeles and Miami within the course of of manufacturing an album in 2022 and 2023.
Jones says he witnessed — and in lots of instances captured on audio — tons of of hours of unlawful drug and sexual exercise by Combs and the individuals surrounding him. Combs’ Monday movement says it’s “replete with farfetched tales of misconduct” however “comprises only a few allegations regarding Jones apart from an allegation that Combs did not pay the producer for his work.”
The swimsuit is an try to show that business dispute right into a broad legal conspiracy run by Combs, with out offering proof of any significance, Combs’ submitting says.
Jones additionally alleges that Combs tried to groom him for intercourse, groped him, made him solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have intercourse with them.
However the movement from Combs’ legal professionals says “Jones fails to plead probably the most primary details, corresponding to the place and when any purported occasion of assault occurred or what allegedly transpired,” and fails to supply proof that Jones was coerced in a approach that may make him a sufferer.
The Related Press doesn’t usually identify individuals who say they’ve been sexually abused until they arrive ahead publicly as Jones and Cassie have completed.
Apart from what was captured on the lodge safety video with Cassie, Combs has broadly denied the allegations within the lawsuits in opposition to him.
“Let me completely clear. I didn’t do any of the terrible issues being alleged,” he stated in a put up in December.
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