Fifth sexual assault lawsuit filed against Sean Combs
On Monday, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a 70 page lawsuit in the Southern District of New York accusing Sean Combs of sexual assault, harassment, and not compensating him for work on The Love Album. He is seeking $30 million in damages. Some of the other defendants named in the lawsuit are Combs’ chief of staff Kristina Khorram, his son Justin Combs, Motown Records, and Universal Music Group. City Girls’ Yung Miami and actor Cuba Gooding Jr. are also named in the suit but are not among the defendants.
Four previous sexual assault lawsuits have been filed against Combs in the last few months. The first was filed by his ex Cassie in November. After initially calling her a liar, he quickly agreed to a settlement less than 24 hours after the suit was filed. A few days later, a second lawsuit was filed alleging that Combs drugged and raped college student Joi Dickerson-Neal in 1991. A third lawsuit claimed that he and singer Aaron Hall raped two women at a party in the early 1990s and later showed up to one victim's house and choked her until she passed out because he was afraid she would tell his girlfriend. In December 2023, a fourth victim filed a lawsuit, alleging that in November 2003, she was a 17 year old high school junior when she was trafficked across state lines to his recording studio where she was drugged and raped by Combs and two of his associates (one of whom is Harve Pierre, the former Bad Boy president who had a separate lawsuit filed against him in November 2023 for sexually assaulting his assistant in 2016).
Jones is the first man to file a sexual assault lawsuit against Combs. The suit claims Combs repeatedly groped his “anus and crotch without consent,” made secret recordings in his homes, displayed guns as an intimidation tactic, tried to “groom him into accepting a homosexual relationship” by showing him explicit video claiming it was “a normal practice in the music industry,” and pushed him to take drugs.
According to the lawsuit, Jones was hired by Combs in August 2022 to work on The Love Album: Off the Grid (which was recently nominated for a Grammy). Jones said he worked on the album from September 2022 until November 2023 and produced nine songs. During this time, he lived with Combs at his homes in New York, California, and Florida, as well as on a yacht rented by Combs in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jones alleges that Combs would grope and touch his genitals, shower in front of Jones, and walk around the house naked. Jones said when he spoke to Combs' chief of staff about this behavior, Khorram (who the lawsuit describes as Combs’ version of Ghislaine Maxwell) allegedly dismissed him by saying, “Sean will be Sean,” and saying that Combs groping him was simply “horseplay” which was Combs’ way of “showing that he likes you.”
Jones said that Combs forced him to recruit sex workers (something that Combs' ex Cassie also described in her lawsuit). In one example, Jones alleged that Combs sent him to a strip club in Miami wearing a special Bad Boy hat which employees knew was a signal that Combs had sent him to recruit them. Jones claims that in February 2023, Combs drugged him and he woke up “naked, dizzy, and confused” in a bed with “two sex workers and Mr. Combs.”
Jones alleges that Combs used both threats and promises to keep him in line. The threats of physical harm included Combs threatening to eat Jones' face and saying that if Combs was willing to kill his own mother to get what he wanted, he wouldn't think twice to harm Jones. Other times Combs dangled potential rewards such as winning Grammy Awards, a $20 million house in Miami, and $250k to buy instruments.
Jones claims he has video proof of some of his allegations because in addition to Combs taking Jones’ phone and recording himself, “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to record him constantly … As a result, Mr. Jones has secured hundreds of hours of footage and audio records of Mr. Combs, his staff, and his guests engaging in serious illegal activity,” which includes the acquisition/use/distribution of ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and mushrooms, as well as Combs giving “laced alcoholic beverages” to minors (some under the age of 16) and sex workers.
In addition, Jones claims that Combs has hidden cameras in every room of his homes which is how Combs acquired footage of everyone who has attended/participated in his freak off parties (including celebrities, music label executives, politicians, and athletes) in compromising videos which were recorded without their knowledge or consent.
Jones said Combs admitted to being responsible for the 1999 nightclub shooting of rapper Shyne. Jones also alleges that in September 2022, he witnessed Sean Combs, Justin Combs, and Justin’s friend “in a heated conversation” which was moved from the music studio to an adjacent bathroom. Jones claims he was 2 feet away from the bathroom when he heard multiple gunshots. He says that when the bathroom door opened, Sean and Justin exited the bathroom and he saw Justin’s friend lying on the bathroom floor bleeding from a gunshot wound. Jones says Combs instructed everyone present to tell the police that Justin’s friend was standing outside the studio and was shot in a drive by.
Jones' lawyer is Tyrone Blackburn, who is representing the woman who filed lawsuit #3 in November.
Combs denies the allegations. His lawyer said: “We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them."
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Four previous sexual assault lawsuits have been filed against Combs in the last few months. The first was filed by his ex Cassie in November. After initially calling her a liar, he quickly agreed to a settlement less than 24 hours after the suit was filed. A few days later, a second lawsuit was filed alleging that Combs drugged and raped college student Joi Dickerson-Neal in 1991. A third lawsuit claimed that he and singer Aaron Hall raped two women at a party in the early 1990s and later showed up to one victim's house and choked her until she passed out because he was afraid she would tell his girlfriend. In December 2023, a fourth victim filed a lawsuit, alleging that in November 2003, she was a 17 year old high school junior when she was trafficked across state lines to his recording studio where she was drugged and raped by Combs and two of his associates (one of whom is Harve Pierre, the former Bad Boy president who had a separate lawsuit filed against him in November 2023 for sexually assaulting his assistant in 2016).
Jones is the first man to file a sexual assault lawsuit against Combs. The suit claims Combs repeatedly groped his “anus and crotch without consent,” made secret recordings in his homes, displayed guns as an intimidation tactic, tried to “groom him into accepting a homosexual relationship” by showing him explicit video claiming it was “a normal practice in the music industry,” and pushed him to take drugs.
According to the lawsuit, Jones was hired by Combs in August 2022 to work on The Love Album: Off the Grid (which was recently nominated for a Grammy). Jones said he worked on the album from September 2022 until November 2023 and produced nine songs. During this time, he lived with Combs at his homes in New York, California, and Florida, as well as on a yacht rented by Combs in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jones alleges that Combs would grope and touch his genitals, shower in front of Jones, and walk around the house naked. Jones said when he spoke to Combs' chief of staff about this behavior, Khorram (who the lawsuit describes as Combs’ version of Ghislaine Maxwell) allegedly dismissed him by saying, “Sean will be Sean,” and saying that Combs groping him was simply “horseplay” which was Combs’ way of “showing that he likes you.”
Jones said that Combs forced him to recruit sex workers (something that Combs' ex Cassie also described in her lawsuit). In one example, Jones alleged that Combs sent him to a strip club in Miami wearing a special Bad Boy hat which employees knew was a signal that Combs had sent him to recruit them. Jones claims that in February 2023, Combs drugged him and he woke up “naked, dizzy, and confused” in a bed with “two sex workers and Mr. Combs.”
Jones alleges that Combs used both threats and promises to keep him in line. The threats of physical harm included Combs threatening to eat Jones' face and saying that if Combs was willing to kill his own mother to get what he wanted, he wouldn't think twice to harm Jones. Other times Combs dangled potential rewards such as winning Grammy Awards, a $20 million house in Miami, and $250k to buy instruments.
Jones claims he has video proof of some of his allegations because in addition to Combs taking Jones’ phone and recording himself, “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to record him constantly … As a result, Mr. Jones has secured hundreds of hours of footage and audio records of Mr. Combs, his staff, and his guests engaging in serious illegal activity,” which includes the acquisition/use/distribution of ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, and mushrooms, as well as Combs giving “laced alcoholic beverages” to minors (some under the age of 16) and sex workers.
In addition, Jones claims that Combs has hidden cameras in every room of his homes which is how Combs acquired footage of everyone who has attended/participated in his freak off parties (including celebrities, music label executives, politicians, and athletes) in compromising videos which were recorded without their knowledge or consent.
Jones said Combs admitted to being responsible for the 1999 nightclub shooting of rapper Shyne. Jones also alleges that in September 2022, he witnessed Sean Combs, Justin Combs, and Justin’s friend “in a heated conversation” which was moved from the music studio to an adjacent bathroom. Jones claims he was 2 feet away from the bathroom when he heard multiple gunshots. He says that when the bathroom door opened, Sean and Justin exited the bathroom and he saw Justin’s friend lying on the bathroom floor bleeding from a gunshot wound. Jones says Combs instructed everyone present to tell the police that Justin’s friend was standing outside the studio and was shot in a drive by.
Jones' lawyer is Tyrone Blackburn, who is representing the woman who filed lawsuit #3 in November.
Combs denies the allegations. His lawyer said: “We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them."
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