WARNING: This article contains vivid descriptions of alleged sexual acts & assaults
A male photographer alleges in a sexual battery lawsuit filed in New York that Sean “Diddy” Combs demanded fellatio in exchange for professional advancement.
‘If you suck [it] right, I’ll make your career take off,” the currently incarcerated Bad Boy Records founder told plaintiff John Doe in his trailer at a “high-profile commercial” shoot in late 2022, early 2023 in what is characterized as a “blatant sexual quid-pro-quo.”
“Combs framed this meeting as an opportunity for (Doe) to advance his career,” the March 26 complaint in New York Supreme Court states of the encounter. John Doe “although hesitant, could not turn down what appeared to be a career-defining moment few ever receive,” the action filed by Texas-based attorney and frequent Diddy foe Tony Buzbee adds.
“The implication was clear, also, that if (Doe) did not perform oral sex on Combs to his satisfaction, his career would be over.”
Going almost TMI, John Doe claims that after Diddy ejaculated in his mouth, he ordered the photographer/PA to carry “semen in his mouth like a squirrel.” Refusing the command, the plaintiffs says he went back to work “grappling not only with the trauma of the situation, but with the knowledge that he had Combs’ semen on and inside of his body.”
John Doe never met Combs again and the former’s pledge to assist the latter’s career never transpired.
The latest in the dozens and dozens of sexual assault and abuse suits against Combs since ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura filed a quickly settled rape case in November 2024, the SoCal native says he suffers ‘immeasurable emotional and mental pain” from the alleged assault.
To that, he and Buzbee are seeking a variety of unspecified damages and a jury trial.
The action this weeks emerged as the ‘All About the Benjamins’ performer is scheduled to go on trial in federal court on May 12 on claims of racketeering, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution. Combs was arrested on September 16, 2024 on the criminal charges. Besides court hearings, lawyer visits and the occasional call with Kanye West, the once time mini mogul has been stewing in a cell at Brooklyn’s hardcore Metropolitan Detention Center the last seven months
Looking at life behind bars if found guilty, the 55-year-old Combs has denied the all charges in the original and amended criminal indictments, as well as all the other civil cases too.
Which is exactly what happened Thursday after the John Doe oral sex compliant was filed.
“No matter how many lawsuits are filed—especially by individuals who refuse to put their own names behind their claims—it won’t change the fact that Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone—man or woman, adult or minor,” Combs’ Marc Agnifilo- and Teny Geragos-led defense team said in a statement. “We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr. Combs is confident he will prevail in court.”
Fighting a potentially renewed extortion case from Jay-Z and accusations of acting in jurisdictions in which he has no standing, Buzbee took to social media Thursday to talk about the new case and take some swipes at his detractors. “’I am proud to be spear heading these efforts to bring justice to those who formerly had no voice. It continues to be a team effort,’ the flamboyant lawyer went on to say. “’We look forward to presenting these cases in court in due course and at the appropriate time.”
Still, even with this, Combs has had some wins elsewhere of late.
On March 24, Judge J. Paul Oetken delivered a not insignificant blow to producer Lil Rod’s $30 million sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit against the Love Album performer. Allowing the sex trafficking claims and some other to continue, the judge sliced the RICO, breach of contract and infliction of emotional distress charges off the man born Rodney Jones Jr’s case against Combs.
Represented by Brooklyn-based attorney Tyrone Blackburn. Jones’ initially February 2024 filed complaint elaborated alleged during the long recording of theTop 20 debuting The Love Album: Off The Grid, Combs tried to “groom him into accepting a homosexual relationship …a normal practice in the music industry.”
Additionally, in her second Combs case ruling today, US District Judge Jennifer Rochon rejected a Jane Doe motion to keep her real intently hidden. “Plaintiff shall file a complaint in her own name no later than April 10, 2025,” the federal judge wrote Thursday of the Buzbee represented woman who first filed her claim of a 1991 sexual assault by Diddy in December last year. The same NYC-based Judge Rochon came to the same conclusion for a John Doe who wanted to stay anonymous in his October 16, 2024 filed allegations that Diddy raped him in 1998. Like Jane Doe in the other case this also Buzbee represented John Doe has until April 10 to file a complaint “in his own name no later than April 10, 2025.”
Back on February 24, another John Doe’s motion to reman anonymous was denied by NYSC Judge Paul A. Goetz under the premise that this is “a civil and not a criminal proceeding.” On March 26, the plaintiff’s Rheingold Giuffra Ruffo Protkin & Hellman lawyer Jeremy A. Hellman filed a notion to reargue the motion.
Regardless of the outcome of Combs’ criminal trial, the defendant is going to be in and out of court for years.
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