Within the wake of a latest civil grievance filed in opposition to him, sources informed The Publish that Sean “Diddy” Combs has a historical past of wielding cash and energy to get others to do his soiled work.
“Different folks carried out acts for him and he saved his arms clear,” an insider informed The Publish.
A lawsuit filed by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in February was amended this week with blockbuster allegations about Combs paying ladies money for intercourse and having folks on payroll carry medicine for him.
Jones, who beforehand labored with Combs, alleged final month that the rapper sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him for over a yr.
This week, a $30 million lawsuit — beforehand filed by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in February — was amended with blockbuster allegations about Sean “Diddy” Combs paying ladies money for intercourse and having folks on payroll carry medicine for him. Getty Pictures
Combs is thought for his lavish life-style, like cruising the South of France on this yacht with mates. INFphoto.com
Jones’ grievance alleges that Diddy (above) had folks in his interior circle carry medicine to his personal jet. Instagram/diddy
This all comes as he hip-hop mogul’s Miami and Los Angeles properties had been raided by Homeland Safety on Monday.
Legislation-enforcement sources beforehand informed The Publish that the raids had been in reference to a federal sex-trafficking investigation.
Rapper Mark Curry, who was signed to Combs’ Dangerous Boy Data within the aughts, mentioned of Diddy: “He’s surrounded by movers and shakers. While you consider the music business … loads of unlawful issues go on behind closed doorways. He took benefit of lots of people who had desires.”
Music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, pictured right here, alleged in a lawsuit that Combs sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him for over a yr. lilrodmadeit/Instagram
“He took benefit of lots of people who had desires,” former Dangerous Boy Data rapper Mark Curry informed The Publish of Combs (above). Getty Pictures
Here’s a have a look at Diddy’s interior circle.
Drug mules
Jones’ amended grievance alleges that Combs’ ex-girlfriend Yung Miami, 30, carried so-called “pink cocaine” — mentioned to be a mixture of cocaine and cheaper substances that may embrace ketamine, MDMA or opioids, and also called “tusi” — throughout state traces for him.
In response to the courtroom doc, Combs “needed tusi” for a private-jet flight from Miami to the One thing within the Water Music Competition in Virginia,”however Brendan [Paul, Diddy’s alleged drug mule] forgot it.”
Combs’ ex-girlfriend Yung Miami, also called Caresha Rameka Brownlee, is being accused of transporting “pink cocaine” for him Jones’ newly amended grievance. WireImage
Images from Jones’ grievance present what’s alleged to be “pink cocaine” — an artificial drug that may comprise cocaine in addition to MDMA or opioids.
Kristina Khorram, Combs’ chief of workers, phoned Brownlee, “who then introduced it on the personal jet from Miami,” the grievance alleges. “Plaintiff Jones personally witnessed Mr. Combs do a couple of traces of coke in his dressing room.”
Diddy and R&B singer Chris Brown had been shock friends throughout Pharrell Williams’ set on the 2023 pageant.
Yung Miami accompanied Combs to the 2023 Met Gala. AFP by way of Getty Pictures
Metropolis Ladies rapper Yung Miami, whose actual identify is Caresha Rameka Brownlee, was reportedly in an open relationship with Combs from 2021 till late final yr — throughout which period Diddy had a toddler with one other girl, mannequin Dana Tran.
In the meantime, Monday noticed the arrest of Brendan Paul — Combs’ alleged forgetful “drug mule” — on the Miami airport on Monday as he tried to board a non-public jet with the rapper. He was slapped with a felony cost of 1 depend of possession of suspected cocaine and suspected marijuana edibles, in response to an arrest report obtained by The Publish.
Brendan Paul was a basketball participant at Syracuse College earlier than he was accused of being a “drug mule” for Diddy. Syracuse Athletics
Paul was arrested Monday on felony drug fees whereas assembly Diddy on the Miami-Opa Locka Airport. Miami Dade Police
Paul, 25, performed basketball at Syracuse College and have become a music producer throughout the pandemic, getting a gig with Combs after his hoops profession didn’t take off. He was a producer for Diddy’s “The Love Album,” launched final September, and posted pictures from the album launch celebration boasting pink rose petals and “love-inspired” drinks.
Earlier than the drug bust, he was residing giant — jet-setting with Combs on the rapper’s all-black G550 Gulfstream jet and posting pictures from their adventures.
One other Combs worker allegedly paid for the rapper’s’ “medicine and weapons,” in response to the lawsuit.
Here is what we all know concerning the allegations in opposition to Sean “Diddy” Combs
Sean “Diddy” Comb’s properties in Los Angeles and Miami had been raided by Homeland Safety amid a potential reference to an ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
Authorities focused the rapper’s properties to grab telephones and computer systems, sources informed The Publish.
Combs was noticed outdoors a Miami airport slowly strolling backwards and forwards Monday simply hours after the raids, in response to stories.
Brendan Paul, a music producer and basketball participant, was arrested on drug fees at a Miami airport whereas making an attempt to board Combs’ personal jet. Paul has been accused of being a “drug mule” for Combs in a federal lawsuit.
A minimum of 4 Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources informed Rolling Stone.
Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit in opposition to him in November 2023 on a number of allegations, together with rape and bodily abuse for over a decade.
Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit someday after she filed it.
In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a girl on a date in 1991.
The lawsuit describes how Combs drove the alleged sufferer to a music studio “the place she couldn’t get out of the automotive” earlier than taking her “to a spot he was staying to sexually assault her.”
A 3rd girl filed a lawsuit in opposition to the movie star in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Corridor took turns sexually assaulting her and a buddy within the early Nineties.
The lady, listed as Jane Doe within the lawsuit, claimed that a few days after the assault, Combs got here to the house the place she and her buddy had been staying and violently attacked her.
In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old lady at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
Earlier than the drug bust, Paul was residing giant — jet-setting with Combs on the rapper’s all-black G550 Gulfstream jet. MEGA
Paul was a producer for Diddy’s “The Love Album,” launched final September, and posted pictures from the album launch celebration boasting pink rose petals and “love-inspired” drinks. Fb/Brendan Paul
The Publish has reached out to Paul, Khorram and Brownlee for remark.
‘Intercourse staff‘
The grievance alleges that Combs saved a minimum of two ladies on his payroll for intercourse.
Instagram influencer Jade Ramey — who describes herself as a “licensed wellness coach” — was allegedly paid a “month-to-month stipend” by Combs for intercourse work, in response to Jones’s amended lawsuit.
Jade Ramey was allegedly paid a “month-to-month stipend” for intercourse work from Combs, in response to the swimsuit. jaderamey/Instagram
50 Cent’s ex Daphne Pleasure was one of many three ladies that Combs allegedly “bragged about” paying a “month-to-month stipend” for intercourse, in response to Jones’ lawsuit. Daphne Pleasure / Instagram
The doc additionally claims that rapper 50 Cent’s ex, OnlyFans Daphne Pleasure, was considered one of three ladies — together with Brownlee — that Combs “bragged about” paying a “month-to-month stipend” for intercourse.
“It’s unclear in the event that they had been offered the suitable United States federal tax paperwork for these funds or in the event that they independently declared these funds on their taxes,” the submitting said.
50 Cent reacted to the information on Instagram Thursday: “Yo this s–t is a film.”
Yung Miami was additionally allegedly on Diddy’s payroll as a intercourse employee, in response to Jones’ courtroom submitting. diddy/Instagram
“The declare that I’m a intercourse employee is 100% false and character assassination,” Pleasure posted on Instagram Thursday.
The grievance additionally claims Combs “used his energy and affect to intimidate, and drive, Mr. Jones into soliciting and sleeping with” intercourse staff from the Booby Entice gents’s membership in Miami — and that if Jones didn’t do what Combs needed, the rapper “threatened to eat his face” and mentioned he was keen to kill Jones’ mom.
The grievance contains pictures of the ladies in query
Combs’ lawyer, Shawn Holley, beforehand informed Web page Six that Jones’ “reckless name-dropping about occasions which might be pure fiction and easily didn’t occur is nothing greater than a clear try and garner headlines.”
Federal brokers eliminated bins of proof from Combs’ Miami mansion on Monday, MEGA
Combs’ mansion within the unique Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles was additionally raided Monday. TheImageDirect.com
The lawsuit additionally alleges that Jones believes Combs drugged him on multiple event, with Jones saying he awoke “bare, dizzy, and confused” and “in mattress with two intercourse staff and Mr. Combs.”
Chief of workers — and far more
Diddy’s chief of workers, Khorram, is described because the “Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs’ Jeffrey Epstein,” in amended grievance and allegedly “ordered intercourse staff and prostitutes for him.”
The doc additionally alleges that Khorram “required” Combs’ home staff to hold a “fanny pack stuffed with cocaine, GHB, ecstasy” and extra for the rapper to bask in his “drug of selection” at his command.
Diddy’s chief of workers, Kristina Khorram, is described in Jones’ grievance because the “Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs’ Jeffrey Epstein” and allegedly “ordered intercourse staff and prostitutes for him.” Diddy/Fb
Combs’s lawyer has disputed the claims.
Khorram joined Dangerous Boy Leisure as a senior government in 2013 and have become a supervisor for Diddy, the “director, workplace of the chairman” of Combs Enterprises, in response to her now-deleted LinkedIn profile. In 2020, she was appointed as Combs’ chief of workers.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jones’ grievance accuses “Jerry Maguire” actor Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexual assault. FilmMagic
Gooding and Combs partied collectively in 2003.
Jones’ grievance accuses “Jerry Maguire” actor Cuba Gooding Jr., 56, of sexual assault — claiming the Oscar winner “started touching, groping, and fondling [his] legs, his higher interior thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks, and his shoulders” whereas on a yacht that Combs rented to tour the US Virgin Islands in January 2023. The Publish has reached Gooding for remark.
Combs allegedly launched Jones to Gooding and “recommended that Cuba ‘get to know’ Mr. Jones higher,” in response to the grievance. Gooding allegedly “didn’t cease [his advances] till Mr. Jones forcibly pushed him away.”