C.J. Wallace, son of The Infamous B.I.G., has countersued for defamation after a Florida music producer and publicist accused him of collaborating in a sexual assault with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Jonathan Hay filed a lawsuit this summer season claiming that whereas engaged on a remix venture with the Biggie property in 2020, Wallace and an affiliate introduced him to a home the place Combs compelled him to carry out oral intercourse. The case additionally alleged a number of different situations of sexual misconduct by Combs, who’s confronted a barrage of civil assault lawsuits since being criminally charged final 12 months.
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Wallace is now hitting again at Hay with a countersuit during which he calls the allegations a “calculated smear marketing campaign.” The federal court docket criticism, filed Wednesday (Nov. 12), alleges Hay fabricated these claims as a result of he was upset about their remix venture falling by way of.
The countersuit alleges the property determined to shelve the venture — a home remix of Biggie’s 1994 album Able to Die, known as Able to Dance — after the primary single (a remix of “Massive Poppa”) flopped in August 2020. Wallace says Hay was “irate” at this determination and later got here up with a phony story concerning the alleged Combs assault.
“The statements represent defamation,” writes Wallace’s lawyer, Jeremiah Reynolds of Eisner LLP. “As a direct and proximate end result, Wallace has suffered basic and particular damages, together with lack of skilled alternatives, humiliation and psychological anguish.”
Wallace’s defamation claims don’t truly goal Hay’s sexual assault lawsuit, since authorized filings are broadly shielded from slander legal responsibility below a precept often called the litigation privilege. As an alternative, Wallace’s case focuses on an October YouTube video during which Hay repeated and described his claims intimately.
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Whereas Hay’s assault lawsuit was filed anonymously, he revealed his identification on this video, titled “Jonathan Hay Particulars EXACTLY What Occur When Diddy A$$AULTED Him, Pressured to S*CK D*CK & VlOLATED!”
Hay declined to touch upon the countersuit when reached by Billboard on Friday (Nov. 14), however famous that he’s filed a police report along with the pending civil lawsuit towards Combs and Wallace.
Combs’ reps didn’t instantly return a request for touch upon the matter. The disgraced rap mogul is serving a jail sentence for arranging drug-fueled intercourse marathons between his girlfriends and male escorts, although he was acquitted of extra severe sex-trafficking and racketeering expenses at a blockbuster trial this summer season.
