Music magnate Sean “Diddy” Combs is currently facing a new lawsuit and a list of allegations after a former employee named Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones issued the same, find out more about him and the incident below
Rodney issued the lawsuit on Monday, February 26 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Who is Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones music record producer who has accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of s*xual assault
Diddy is being sued by producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones for sexual assault, harassment and not being paid for his work on Diddy's The Love Album, Rolling Stone reports. pic.twitter.com/g376datqXS
— XXL Magazine (@XXL) February 27, 2024
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, the producer suing Diddy for sexually harassing, drugging, and threatening him for over a year has also been fighting Diddy for his publishing over that same album he worked on. 👀 pic.twitter.com/uF6y1qWTwe
— K-Dot The Kemist (@KDotTKL) February 27, 2024
Along with a list of harassment and assault allegations, Jones claims that he did not get compensated for the songs he produced on the Grammy-nominated R&B album ‘The Love Album: Off the Grid’
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones bio
Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones is a record producer and videographer who previously worked for Diddy. The 39-year-old worked for over a year with Diddy, between September 2022 and November 2023.
Rodney Jones files lawsuit against Diddy
Rodney Jones has issued a lawsuit against his former employer, Diddy Combs, accusing him of several allegations, including s*xual harassment, drugging, and threatening him during the time that they reportedly worked together between September 2022 and November 2023. Lil Rod claims in his lawsuit that he has video and audio evidence of Combs and his staff “engaging in serious illegal activity,” for over a year.
He also included a number of other defendants in the lawsuit, including Combs’ son Justin, Kristina Khorram, his chief of staff, Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grainge, ex-Motown Records CEO Ethiopia Habtemariam, and Love Records. According to Jones’ allegations, all of the people listed above were involved in a “RICO enterprise.” Following the accusations, Rodney Jones is seeking around $30 million in damages.
List of allegations against Diddy in Rodney’s lawsuit
Rodney Jones issued a list of allegations against Diddy on Monday in a New York federal court. He accused Combs of allegedly forcing him to find s*x workers while reportedly forcing him to get physical with them. Jones also accused Diddy of giving drugged alcoholic beverages to his guests during his house parties, including underage girls. According to the lawsuit, he reportedly has screenshots to support the allegations.
Rodney Jones also accused Combs of harassing and assaulting him when he lived at his Combs’ houses in Florida, Los Angeles, New York, and a yacht in the Virgin Islands. More specifically, he accused Diddy Combs of “constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching,” of his genitals. Moreover, while sharing his experiences to Kristina Khorram, she allegedly dismissed the acts as “friendly horseplay”. She reportedly justified the actions as Diddy’s way of “showing that he likes you.” Khorram is now accused of aiding and abetting Diddy, and allegedly trying to “groom” Lil Rod.
Rodney Jones also accused Combs of allegedly giving him “an exclusive Bad Boy baseball cap.” According to him, this was a signal to let s*x workers know of Diddy’s arrival in Miami and his desire to hire them. Jones further accused Combs of not just pressuring him to procure s*x workers but also engaging with them physically. Rodney also claimed that last year, in February, Diddy allegedly drugged him and forced him to sleep with sex workers. Diddy Combs allegedly forced Jones to watch a video of musician Stevie J being intimate with another man. Rodney Jones also accused Combs of introducing him to actor Cuba Gooding Jr., who allegedly groped him. The actor also allegedly ordered his former girlfriend, Yung Miami’s cousin, to physically assault Jones.
Guns and shootings
Aside from allegations involving s*xual and physical assault, Rodney Jones also accused Diddy of allegedly handling guns, bragging about shooting people, and getting away with it. He also mentioned another incident in which Combs allegedly admitted that he was responsible for the nightclub shooting in New York City in 1999. The incident saw rapper Shyne get convicted, while Combs got acquitted.
According to Jones, Sean and his son Justin had an altercation where an innocent man was accidentally shot. However, they forced him to lie to the police and call it a drive-by-shooting. While stating all these allegations, Jones stated that he has hundreds of hours of video and audio evidence to support his accusations.
Diddy’s legal team denies all accusations
Amidst all the accusations laid against him, Diddy’s attorney has come out to issue a response against Rodney Jones. Diddy’s attorney, Shawn Holley, stated that:
We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”