Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s serving 4 years in federal jail for utilizing prostitutes in “freak-offs,” is underneath investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division in reference to new allegations of sexual assault. A file producer alleges Combs assaulted him on two events.
The sheriff’s Particular Victims Unit initiated the probe as a result of one of many incidents occurred in East Los Angeles, in response to Nicole Nishida, a division spokeswoman. The producer reported the incidents to police in Largo, Fla.
Florida-based music producer John Hay revealed in media interviews that he was the “John Doe” plaintiff from a civil lawsuit filed in July alleging assault.
The producer, who was not named by legislation enforcement investigating the allegations, alleged he was subjected to intercourse acts in 2020 and 2021 whereas engaged on a remix mission of music by Biggie Smalls, a.ok.a. Christopher Wallace, which put him into contact with Unhealthy Boy Information and firm govt Combs.
A spokesman for Combs didn’t instantly reply to The Occasions’ request for touch upon the investigation.
The lawsuit states that, in December 2020, the producer was at a warehouse in Los Angeles that housed a few of Infamous B.I.G.’s clothes. The gadgets have been being donated to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame later that yr, when Biggie would ultimately be inducted.
Combs “offered medicine to everybody current. Everybody there was working across the warehouse and tripping on the medicine,” the lawsuit alleges. Combs “began watching porn on his mobile phone, grabbed one in all Biggie’s shirts off a rack, and commenced to masturbate with it in entrance of the plaintiff,” the swimsuit states.
Combs subsequently threw the shirt over the producer’s lap and arm, laughed and stated “Relaxation in peace, Biggie” earlier than leaving the room.
In an incident in March 2021, the plaintiff claims that he was arrange. He states within the lawsuit he was lured to a gathering by Biggie’s son, Christopher “CJ” Wallace Jr., and music producer Willie Mack.
However upon his arrival, his head was coated, and Combs appeared and commenced yelling and ordered everybody to go away, the lawsuit alleges. Combs then allegedly tried “to drive plaintiff to carry out oral copulation on Combs, whereas plaintiff’s head was nonetheless coated.”
“I’m pushing for felony costs to be filed towards Combs at a state and federal degree,” Hay advised ShockYa earlier this month in an interview the place he acknowledged he was the civil swimsuit plaintiff.
In line with a police report first obtained final month by Folks journal, Hay reported the allegations on Sept. 20 of this yr to Largo, Fla., police.
Gary Dordick, the producer’s lawyer, stated “we intend to current out consumer’s case to a jury in California and we’re assured that the reality will prevail.” Dordick stated in a message to The Occasions that he wouldn’t remark additional given {that a} defamation lawsuit was filed final week by Wallace.
Wallace, the son of Biggie Smalls and singer Religion Evans, sued Hay for defamation in a Florida federal courtroom final week, calling Hay’s latest interviews “a calculated smear marketing campaign” that included false statements that he attended Combs’ so-called freak-off events and “conspired to lure Hay to a location the place Combs purportedly assaulted him.”
An lawyer for Mack couldn’t instantly be reached for remark.
Wallace says in his defamation motion that Hay labored on the remix mission, titled “Able to Dance,” with Wallace and Mack in 2020. A single was launched, however the remaining songs weren’t, as a result of an absence of curiosity.
In line with the swimsuit, Hay was upset over the choice to not launch the music he labored on and commenced accusing Mack of “inappropriate and abusive habits” in 2021. However Hay by no means made an assault allegation, the swimsuit claims.
Combs is presently incarcerated at Federal Correctional Establishment Fort Dixon, a New Jersey low-security federal penitentiary.
