Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Denies Charges Of Sexual Harassment & Assault By Music Producer ‘Lil Rod’ Jones Jr. In $30 Million Lawsuit

After music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually harassing and assaulting him, Combs is pushing back hard at the allegations.

Late last month, Jones, who had worked with Combs on his most recent studio album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, filed a lawsuit against the rap mogul in U.S. federal court for the southern district of New York.

The producer claimed that Combs “forcibly touched and attempted and/or threatened to touch [Jones’] intimate areas and/or touched [Jones] with his own intimate body parts” while they worked on The Love Album: Off the Grid.

He also accused Combs and his associates, including his son, Justin Combs, his chief of staff at Combs Global Enterprises, of participating in “a sex-trafficking venture.”

“Justin Combs categorically denies these absurd allegations,” a representative for Justin Combs said in a statement. “They are all lies! This is a clear example of a desperate person taking desperate measures in hopes of a payday. There will be legal consequences for ALL defamatory statements made about the Combs family.”

Jones said that he and Combs worked together from September 2022 and November 2023, a partnership which resulted in nine songs on The Love Album: Off the Grid for which Jones is credited as a producer.

Additionally, the producer alleged that he had not been paid for “13 months [and] thousands of hours of work.”

Combs, Justin, Universal Music Group, Motown Records and Love Records are some of the defendants listed in this lawsuit.

Jones is seeking $30 million in compensation and a jury trial.

In a statement, a rep for Diddy, attorney Shawn Holley, said, “Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday. His reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.”

“We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies,” Holley stated. “Our attempts to share this proof with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”

In Jones’ lawsuit, which consists of many different anecdotes, photos and screenshots, he declared that he has “irrefutable evidence” of Combs and his associates’ misconduct.

“Throughout his time with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones witnessed, experienced, and endured many things that went far beyond his role as a Producer on the Love album,” the lawsuit states. “Mr. Jones has secured HUNDREDS of hours of footage and audio recordings of Mr. Combs, his staff, and his guests engaging in serious illegal activity.”

According to Jones, “these activities include the acquiring, using and distributing drugs; providing “laced alcoholic beverages to minors and sex workers.”

On November 16, 2023, R&B singer Cassie, the longtime romantic partner of Combs whose real name is Cassandra Ventura, filed a lawsuit against him in Manhattan’s Federal District Court.

She claimed that in 2018, she tried ending the relationship and leaving Combs when he raped her in her own home.

Ventura also asserted that he frequently abused her, coerced her into sexual acts with male sex workers and exerted control over her personal life, with threats to hurt her professional career if she ever disobeyed him.

One day after the lawsuit was filed, Combs and Ventura announced that they reached an agreement to settle the suit, but neither party revealed specific details of the settlement.

After three more women made multiple accusations of sexual assault against him, Combs publicly responded to them in a statement typed in all caps and posted as an image on Instagram and X.

One victim claimed she was assaulted and drugged by Combs while attending Syracuse University in 1991. Another victim claimed that he and R&B singer Aaron Hall took advantage of her at the latter’s apartment. The third victim, anonymously known as Jane Doe, accused the rapper, Harve Pierre, the then-president of Bad Boy Entertainment, and an unnamed man of gang-raping her in 2003.