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 group within the U.S. District Courtroom 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 use as a “salacious RICO conspiracy.”
“Operating to almost 100 pages, it contains numerous tall tales, shameless celeb namedrops, and irrelevant photos,” the movement reads. “But regardless of all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, [Jones] fails to state a single viable declare towards any of Combs Defendants.”
Regarding the intercourse trafficking allegations, Diddy’s group pushed again on Jones’ assertion he was a sufferer of “any business intercourse act.”
“The criticism additionally fails to state a [Trafficking Victims Protection Act] declare immediately or not directly towards Combs International as a result of there are not any allegations that Combs International participated in or benefitted from any alleged business intercourse act involving Jones,” the movement reads.
In his unique 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 stated Jones couldn’t recall particular situations of any sexual harassment.
“Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction,” Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff stated 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 courtroom of legislation — 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, instructed XXL, “That is nothing greater than a billing train by Sean Combs’ newest set of legal professionals. It’s a weak try and fill their pockets earlier than he’s indicted, they usually resolve to haul a*s, identical to his 5 earlier legal professionals did.”
Blackburn added that the salacious nature of the lawsuit is just because the info are that disturbing.
“If their consumer doesn’t have interaction in salacious conduct, I’d not have something salacious to file. I decide my purchasers; I don’t decide their info,” Blackburn added. “Discover that there is no such thing as a 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 courtroom submitting learn. “Mr. Combs required Mr. Jones to report him continually. On a number of events, Mr. Combs took Mr. Jones cellphone and started recording himself. In consequence, Mr. Jones has secured HUNDREDS of hours of footage and audio recordings of Mr. Combs, his workers, and his visitors participating in critical criminal activity.”
Nicki Minaj can be talked about within the lawsuit as being the girlfriend of a “Philadelphia rapper” that Diddy instructed Jones he had intercourse with. Jones moreover claimed he noticed the identical rapper “consorting with underage women” on Diddy’s yacht alongside Puff.
This is only one of many authorized battles which have befallen Diddy during the last a number of months for his alleged violent and unlawful acts prior to now.
