Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s serving 4 years in federal jail for utilizing prostitutes in “freak-offs,” is beneath investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division in reference to new allegations of sexual assault. A document 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, based on 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 regulation enforcement investigating the allegations, alleged he was subjected to intercourse acts in 2020 and 2021 whereas engaged on a remix venture of music by Biggie Smalls, a.ok.a. Christopher Wallace, which put him into contact with Unhealthy Boy Data and firm government 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 12 months, when Biggie would ultimately be inducted.
Combs “supplied medication to everybody current. Everybody there was operating across the warehouse and tripping on the medication,” the lawsuit alleges. Combs “began watching porn on his mobile phone, grabbed certainly one of Biggie’s shirts off a rack, and started 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 mentioned “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 lined, and Combs appeared and started yelling and ordered everybody to depart, the lawsuit alleges. Combs then allegedly tried “to pressure plaintiff to carry out oral copulation on Combs, whereas plaintiff’s head was nonetheless lined.”
“I’m pushing for prison fees to be filed towards Combs at a state and federal degree,” Hay informed ShockYa earlier this month in an interview the place he acknowledged he was the civil swimsuit plaintiff.
In keeping with a police report first obtained final month by Individuals journal, Hay reported the allegations on Sept. 20 of this 12 months to Largo, Fla., police.
Gary Dordick, the producer’s lawyer, mentioned “we intend to current out consumer’s case to a jury in California and we’re assured that the reality will prevail.” Dordick mentioned 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 current 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 venture, titled “Able to Dance,” with Wallace and Mack in 2020. A single was launched, however the remaining songs weren’t, on account of an absence of curiosity.
In keeping with the swimsuit, Hay was upset over the choice to not launch the music he labored on and started accusing Mack of “inappropriate and abusive conduct” 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.
