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The judge set to oversee Diddy’s upcoming “gang rape” trial has introduced a new ruling involving the unidentified accuser that could slow up the case.
According to reports, the federal judge that will oversee the trial stemming from a lawsuit filed against Diddy accusing him of sexual trafficking and being involved in the gang rape of the victim cannot move forward unless the victim identifies herself. In the documents related to the new ruling, Judge Jessica G.L. Clarke did acknowledge that this could “have a significant impact” on the accuser but that they “failed to prove” that they could proceed on an anonymous basis.
“While the court does not take Plaintiff’s concerns lightly, the Court cannot rely on generalized, uncorroborated claims that disclosure would harm Plaintiff to justify her anonymity,” Judge Clarke wrote in the filing. She would go on to write that cases where the accuser’s identity is undisclosed were “the exception and not the rule.” Judge Clarke cited previous lawsuits filed against actor Kevin Spacey and former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in which the respective John Doe and Jane Does had to disclose their identity.
Douglas Wigdor, who represented Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in her suit against him, said that Jane Doe came forward after realizing “she too had been sex trafficked and that Mr. Combs’ behavior in forcing women into nonconsensual sex was not an isolated incident or unique only to Ms. Ventura.”
The lawsuit alleges that Diddy, former Bad Boy President Harve Pierre and an unidentified third man had coerced Jane Doe, then 17, from Michigan to New Jersey, “plied her with drugs and alcohol” and ultimately raped her in a Manhattan recording studio in 2003. Diddy has since filed an 11-page response to the lawsuit in the Southern District of New York, claiming that he “never participated in, witnessed, or was or is presently aware of any misconduct, sexual or otherwise, relating to plaintiff in any circumstance whatsoever.”
The filing by his new team of lawyers (which includes the same attorney that represented Jeffrey Epstein’s associate, Ghislaine Maxwell) claims the lawsuit is “unconstitutional.” Harve Pierre has also filed his official response to the lawsuit, saying that he “never participated in the sexual assault of the plaintiff nor did he ever witness anyone else sexually assaulting the plaintiff.”
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It’s already been a wild 2024 for Sean “Diddy” Combs because of all the accusations and lawsuits being thrown his way. Now, a decades-old court case is once again in the spotlight as one of its victims is speaking out and pointing her finger squarely at the Hip-Hop icon.
According to Vibe, the woman who was shot during the infamous nightclub shooting in 1999 that led to Diddy and Shyne getting arrested and standing trial for the incident is now saying that it was the Bad Boy CEO who actually shot her in the face on that fateful night. Natania Reuben took to Instagram Wednesday (Feb. 28), to put Diddy on blast for the incident. Diddy was acquitted in a court of law, but Shyne did an eight-year bid before being deported back to his home of Belize upon his release in 2009.
As to why she decided to clear the air on the situation that left her maimed all these decades later, Reuben took the time to explain her motive in the post.
Per Vibe:
“Let me tell you why that is of utmost importance to me,” Reuben said of the current legal issues plaguing Combs. “Because I am the woman he shot in the face in that December 27, 1999 Club New York shooting. I have told everyone ad nauseam since then, even the surgeon who did the surgery to take the bullet, I got shot in my face with a 9 mm hollow-point bullet called a cop killer.”
Reuben remained adamant that she fingered Diddy as the triggerman decades ago, insisting that she told the medical staff that performed surgery on her such immediately following the shooting. However, she suggests that Combs was able to bribe witnesses of the crime to dispose of incriminating evidence against him.
“I literally told everyone and never changed what I said,” she added. “I watched him, I got [shot] in the face, I watched him fire the gun. I’ve said it all this time. Even the surgeon who did my surgery testified in the criminal trial that while they were putting me under [anesthesia]. I was screaming, ‘Puffy [shot] me in the face.’… Everybody knew he did it, but he paid off the club bouncer and all these other people to hide the video. That’s his MO.”
Reuben suggested that Diddy was able to pay everyone off to help get him off the hook and even said that Diddy tried to intimidate her by flattening the tires on her car multiple times.
Whether or not Diddy responds to her claims remains to be seen, but given everything that’s being thrown his way these days, we won’t be surprised if he keeps his lips sealed. Nothing good can come of him talking about any of these allegations.
Check out Natania Reuben’s side of the story below, and let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
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Easy Mo Bee has levied a claim that he was “blackballed” in the music industry for confronting Diddy over producing credits.
Veteran producer Easy Mo Bee claims that for some time he had been shunned in the music industry since confronting Diddy over the production credits for one of Bad Boy Records’ greatest hits. He shared the story during his time as a guest on The Sample Lounge when he talked about working on the remix to Craig Mack’s 1994 iconic track “Flava in Ya Ear.” Easy Mo Bee had produced the original while working extensively with Bad Boy in the early 1990s, beginning with producing “Party and Bulls—t”, the first single for The Notorious B.I.G.
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“I remember we were gonna do the remix [of ‘Flava in Ya Ear’],” the producer recalled. “He had the idea to throw LL[Cool J], Busta [Rhymes], Rampage on there. Dope! When I saw the record and it said, in this particular order: ‘Remixed by Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs, Chucky Thompson and Easy Mo Bee,’ I bugged out. I kinda flipped out.” Easy Mo Bee continued: “I was like, ‘Wait a minute, you didn’t do anything on the record! And Chucky Thompson, he kinda sat there and watched me do the remix in Sound on Sound Studios … Because I didn’t go along with the management thing, now my credit is getting taken?”
The Grammy Award winner then spoke about how he confronted the mogul over the situation. “I went up there with my manager and spoke to him about it,” he stated. “I told him, ‘Yo, do me a favor, man. Don’t do that again. I don’t like that.’ From that point on, I think that’s when the relationship changed over there,” Mo Bee said. “My relationships, period, started to change. I noticed that certain people wouldn’t deal with me. I’d heard about blackballing.” It left Easy Mo Bee stunned.
But looking back, the producer maintains that he felt he handled the situation correctly. “I’m a man. I’m a certain kind of man. This man, up to that point in my career, I didn’t have any problems with like that,” he said. “I would do the same today. I’m a man of principle. If blackballing is what they call it, then so be it,” Mo Bee said.
The claim comes as Diddy is in a whirlwind of accusations about his behavior, recently being hit with a lawsuit by a producer claiming he sexually abused him.
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It’s 2024, and Meek Mill and DJ Akademiks are still beefing. The Philadelphia rapper and the pro-level online troll, respectively, are currently going back and forth on X, so of course social media users are taking in all the mess.
Not that it really matters at this point, but the brouhaha this go around seems to have started when Akademiks took to his Twitch to throw shots at Meek over the latest Diddy lawsuit. The suit claims that Diddy relayed to Lil Rod that he had sexual relations with Meek Mill—which for the record is totally unsubstantiated.
Of course, Meek caught wind. “The way you niggas coming on the sick now… I can’t wait to meet akademiks lol they know I drop tomar this they damage control this net getting too weird,” he tweeted in response to the clip of Ak setting the bait.
Then he eventually threatened Ak with the proper fade, kind of.
“Akademiks didn’t I tell you stop playing with my name… idk what ima do when I actually see you! It’s gonna have a combination to it tho!,” he tweeted (we’re never going to type or say x’d).
To this, and with Meek having engaged and thus falling into the trap, Akademiks responded in kind with the usual clown a rapper tropes involving being dropped from your label, allegedly, and plenty of homophobia. He’s also standing by the “Why are you mad at me when it’s the lawsuit that said you’re gay?” plea.
The blatant toxic masculity and homophobia is the nastiest of work. So of course all angles from the X app are chiming in; good, bad and extra ugly. See for yourself in the gallery, for archival purposes.
4. Andrew Tate?
Meek catching hell from all angles.
6. What Ye got to do with this exactly?
7. It’s 2024, be you.
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Diddy has more explaining to do. A former male producer is making some stunning claims that the mogul sexually assaulted him.
Variety Magazine is reporting that the Bad Boy Entertainment founder is now facing some new allegations regarding his behavior. On Monday, Feb. 26 producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a lawsuit against Sean Combs stating the music executive made several sexual advances toward him during the recording of The Love Album: Off the Grid and was “subjected to unwanted advances by associates of Diddy at his direction.” Jones also faced “constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus” and was even made to work in the bathroom while Diddy showered.
But wait it gets worse. Aside from the inappropriate advances Jones says that Combs frequently hired sex workers and offered them illegal drugs and laced alcoholic beverages. Additionally, the producer says he was also drugged and woke up on Feb. 2, 2023 in bed naked with Diddy and two sex workers. As expected lawyers for Combs have denied in a statement to Variety Magazine. “Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday,” Shawn Holley said. “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.”
This one of many lawsuits against Diddy with claims of sexual misconduct. According to HipHopDX on Friday, Feb. 23 his lawyer Jonathan Davis described him and former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre in a filing as “victims of the ‘cancel culture’ frenzy in the courts”. The two businessmen are defendants along with another unnamed individual are alleged to gang raping a 17-year-old girl back in 2003. Both have plead not guilty and have asked the suit to be dismissed.
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Either Quincy Brown is very impulsive or has a good sense of humor. He has removed a face tattoo after receiving backlash online.
As reported by HipHopDX the crooner recently decided to commemorate his newest single “Perfect In My Eyes” with some fresh artwork. On Valentine’s Day he posted a photo of him with a tattoo of the word “Perfect” under his left eye to coincide with his newest R&B effort. While he didn’t specifically call out the ink in his caption his followers were quick to call him out on what they believed to be a terrible idea. “I hate the tat! Why would u do that to your beautiful face!” one user wrote. While another commented “Leave ur face alone handsome don’t spoil it.”
It seems Diddy’s son heard the feedback loud and clear. On Wednesday, Feb. 21 he shared a video on his Instagram account of him visiting an aesthetician to remove the art. “I’ve read the comments. Thank Q for y’all’s honesty” he wrote in the caption which accompanied footage of him documenting the entire process. Even though he has yet to confirm or deny if the face tattoo was successfully removed many think the tattoo wasn’t real to begin with. “You can’t do a laser tattoo removal when the tattoo is super fresh. You need months in between to let the tattoo heal and then start the process. This whole situation doesn’t seem real” a fan wrote in the comments section.
You can listen to Quincy’s “Perfect In My Eyes” below.
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Sean Combs, also known widely as Diddy, has denied any involvement in an alleged gang rape that took place back in 2003 inside a recording studio. A lawyer for Jane Doe in this particular matter has also responded to the statement made by Sean Combs, adding that the women who have come forth about the mogul “speak for themselves.”
Sean Combs, 54, has been dogged by sexual abuse allegations and related claims after ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura came forward with a harrowing list of claims that prompted the celebrated producer to settle the matter out of court instead of taking things to trial.
PEOPLE has obtained documents from the case which focuses on the alleged event taking place inside a Manhattan recording studio. The claim also named Harve Pierre and another man as the attackers of the alleged then-17-year-old victim.
“[Combs] never participated in, witnessed, or was or is presently aware of any misconduct, sexual or otherwise, relating to plaintiff in any circumstance whatsoever,” a portion of the filing read.
The outlet added that Combs and his side also had questions regarding photos used in conjunction with the complaint from Jane Doe and viewed the timing as curious.
“The context, genuineness, and/or accuracy of the photographs are disputed,” the filing continues. “Plaintiff’s decision to wait more than two decades to file her complaint has prejudiced [Combs], as he has lost the ability to defend himself fully and fairly in this action.”
In response to the filing, the attorney for Jane Doe wrote, “The deeply troubling allegations against the defendants by multiple women speak for themselves. The ridiculous claim that the photos are somehow fake and the law at issue is unconstitutional are nothing more than desperate attempts to conjure a defense where none exists.”
Combs is seeking to have the lawsuit thrown out with his side saying that the Victims Gender-Motivated Violence Act used to spark the matter is “unconstitutional.”
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Ahead of his upcoming trial for trafficking, Diddy is hiring the lawyer who represented Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s associate in her case.
According to reports, Diddy has engaged the services of attorney Bobbi Sternheim to represent him in a lawsuit that was filed against him accusing him of sexual assault in 2003. Sternheim, a veteran trial attorney, recently was the lawyer for Ghislaine Maxwell in her 2022 case where she was ultimately convicted of recruiting and trafficking young girls abused by the disgraced billionaire Jeffrey Epstein. Legal reporter Meghan Cuniff also noted Sternheim’s experience as the former president of the New York Women’s Bar Association in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
Sternheim, who works with the law firm of Fasulo, Giordano & DiMaggio LLP, also served as the defense attorney for Khaled al-Fawwaz, the henchman for Osama bin Laden in his 2015 trial for his role in the 1998 bombings of two American embassies in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. The bombings would claim the lives of 224 people, and al-Fawwaz would receive a life sentence in prison. According to her biography, Sternheim is the first and only woman to receive the New York Criminal Bar Association’s Award for Excellence in the Profession.
This new lawsuit against Diddy was filed last December, accusing him and former Bad Boy Records President Harve Pierre of organizing “a sex trafficking scheme that involved plying [Jane Doe] with alcohol and transporting her by private jet to New York City where she was gang-raped.” The victim, identified in the documents as “Jane Doe” claimed that she was 17 at the time, meeting Pierre and a “third assailant” at a lounge in Detroit, Michigan. They persuaded her to take a private plane to New Jersey, after which they drove to Diddy’s House Recording Studio in New York City. The legal filing states that the victim consumed so much alcohol “to the point that she could not possibly have consented to having sex with anyone, much less someone twice her age.”
The victim has retained Douglas H. Wigdor as her attorney. Wigdor is the lawyer who represented Cassie in her lawsuit accusing Diddy of rape and domestic violence last December. That suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount the day after it was filed, stating: “Pursuant to an agreement between the parties, Plaintiff hereby dismisses this action, with prejudice and without costs or fees to either party.”
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The dispute between Diddy and Diageo is now over as the two parties have reached a settlement, and are no longer partners.
According to reports, Diddy and global liquor giant Diageo ended a highly combative legal battle in which Diddy accused Diageo of not honoring its commitment to his liquor brand, claiming it was due to racism. The two parties confirmed the settlement in a joint statement issued on Tuesday (January 16). The liquor brands at the heart of the settlement were Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila.
“Sean Combs and Diageo have now agreed to resolve all disputes between them. Mr. Combs has withdrawn all of his allegations about Diageo and will voluntarily dismiss his lawsuits against Diageo with prejudice,” the statement from both parties reads. “Diageo and Mr. Combs have no ongoing business relationship, either with respect to Cîroc vodka or DeLeón tequila, which Diageo now solely owns.” Diageo, which also owns such renowned brands as Guinness, Tanqueray and Johnnie Walker, had first entered into a partnership with Diddy’s Combs Wines and Spirits in 2007 to handle marketing and distribution of Ciroc. In 2013, the two entities purchased DeLeón.
Things soured in May 2023 as Diddy sued Diageo in Manhattan Supreme Court in New York City, alleging that the brand purposely neglected his liquor brands compared to others under their umbrella. He also claimed that Diageo belittled the value of Ciroc and DeLeón by marketing them as “urban” brands and not for the general market. Diageo would file a countersuit in June, claiming that Diddy had failed to live up to obligations stipulated in their partnership agreement. “Mr. Combs’ bad-faith actions have clearly breached his contracts and left us no choice but to move to dismiss his baseless complaint and end our business relationship,” their filing read at the time.
The severing of ties with Diageo is another blow to the artist and mogul within the past few months. Diddy is currently facing several lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault which he denies inflicting. Last November, his former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of sex trafficking and rape. The two settled the lawsuit the next day. Diddy has also stepped down from his position as chairman of REVOLT TV and has seen an upcoming reality series with Hulu scrapped in the wake of the lawsuits.
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Diddy might be on the outs in the eyes of many fans and fellow entertainers following the allegations made by Cassie and a few other women at the end of last year, but Clive Davis doesn’t seem to have a problem hanging with the embattled music icon at all.
According to Page Six, Clive Davis extended Diddy an invitation to his exclusive annual pre-Grammy party, should Diddy decide to attend and face everyone who’s become familiar with his alleged antics behind closed doors. After a digital invite for the event was sent out to potential attendees, many noticed that Diddy wasn’t as heavily featured in the video montage as he has been in years passed.
That led to some speculating that maybe Diddy was booted off the guest list due to the allegations thrown at him by Cassie and a few other women who alleged they were subjected to sexual assault and other forms of physical violence as well. Still, that doesn’t seem to matter to Davis as a source close to the matter told Page Six “Puffy is perennially invited to the party. He’s always on the list.”
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“Puffy wasn’t scrubbed,” they said. “Each year, the photos included in the pre-Grammy gala invitation are updated. Different artists, guests and performers are changed from year to year.”
Combs is nominated in the Best Progressive R&B Album catefory for his latest project, “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” at this year’s Grammys.
We hear Combs has no plans to attend the awards show despite the nomination. But the Grammys did not disinvite him from the show, since its standard policy is that the Recording Academy invite all nominees.
Though he’s denied any wrong doing and vowed to fight for his good name after immediately settling out of court with Cassie, Puff must know it’ll be an uncomfortable situation for him (and others) to attend these kind of events with the allegations against him still raw in the minds of his fellow music industry peers.
Still, don’t be surprised if Diddy returns to the spotlight next year after falling back from public view until everything blows over and people move on from these allegations.
What do y’all think of this situation? Are y’all surprised Clive Davis still has Diddy on his guest list? Let us know in the comments section below.