Diddy has filed to have Rodney Jones’ lawsuit dismissed, claiming Jones is merely making an attempt to stress Puff right into a settlement.
Diddy Recordsdata to Have Lawsuit Dismissed
On Monday (Aug. 26), XXL obtained a movement filed by Diddy’s authorized crew within the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of New York. The movement claims Jones’ disturbing lawsuit— which was amended in March to accuse Puff of intercourse trafficking and being a part of a “RICO enterprise” — is nothing greater than a “run-of-the-mill business disagreement” that Jones tried to take advantage of as a “salacious RICO conspiracy.”
“Operating to just about 100 pages, it contains numerous tall tales, shameless movie star namedrops, and irrelevant photographs,” the movement reads. “But regardless of all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, [Jones] fails to state a single viable declare in opposition to any of Combs Defendants.”
Regarding the intercourse trafficking allegations, Diddy’s crew pushed again on Jones’ assertion he was a sufferer of “any business intercourse act.”
“The grievance additionally fails to state a [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] declare immediately or not directly in opposition to Combs World as a result of there aren’t any allegations that Combs World participated in or benefitted from any alleged business intercourse act involving Jones,” the movement reads.
In his authentic lawsuit filed again in February, Rodney Jones claimed that Diddy sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him whereas he labored with the embattled mogul on The Love Album: Off the Grid. Puff’s newest movement known as Jones’ allegations imprecise, and mentioned Jones couldn’t recall particular situations of any sexual harassment.
“Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction,” Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff mentioned in an announcement shared with XXL. “There was no RICO conspiracy and Mr. Jones was not threatened, groomed, assaulted or trafficked. We look ahead to proving — in a court docket of regulation — that every one of Mr. Jones’s claims are made up and should be dismissed.”
Jones is requesting a jury trial and is in search of unspecified damages. When reached for remark, Jones’ lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, informed XXL, “That is nothing greater than a billing train by Sean Combs’ newest set of attorneys. It’s a weak try and fill their pockets earlier than he’s indicted, and so they resolve to haul a*s, similar to his 5 earlier attorneys did.”
Blackburn added that the salacious nature of the lawsuit is just because the details are that disturbing.
“If their consumer doesn’t have interaction in salacious conduct, I’d not have something salacious to file. I decide my shoppers; I don’t decide their details,” Blackburn added. “Discover that there isn’t any affidavit from Sean Combs and no protection from Justin Combs. Rodney Jones filed an affidavit underneath penalty of perjury to the reality of the matter asserted within the submitting. Can Sean Combs do the identical?”
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Rodney Jones Accuses Diddy of Abuse and Unpaid Work
Jones’ filed the lawsuit again in February and accused the mogul of widespread abuse throughout the producer time’s time dwelling at Puff’s home from September of 2022 to November of 2023.
“All through his time with Mr. Combs, Mr. Jones witnessed, skilled, and endured many issues that went far past his position as a Producer on the Love album,” the court docket submitting learn. “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to report him continually. On a number of events, Mr. Combs took Mr. Jones cellphone and commenced recording himself. Because of this, Mr. Jones has secured HUNDREDS of hours of footage and audio recordings of Mr. Combs, his employees, and his company partaking in severe criminal activity.”
Nicki Minaj can also be talked about within the lawsuit as being the girlfriend of a “Philadelphia rapper” that Diddy informed Jones he had intercourse with. Jones moreover claimed he noticed the identical rapper “consorting with underage ladies” on Diddy’s yacht alongside Puff.
This is only one of many authorized battles which have befallen Diddy over the past a number of months for his alleged violent and unlawful acts up to now.
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