Daphne Pleasure, former girlfriend of rapper 50 Cent, is firing again at a current allegation made about her skilled relationship with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Pleasure, together with Metropolis Ladies rapper Yung Miami, was named in an amended civil lawsuit by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr., who’s suing Combs for sexual assault and harassment. Jones claimed within the submitting that Pleasure and Yung Miami had been among the many ladies “who had been paid a month-to-month price to work as Mr. Combs’ intercourse staff.”
Pleasure responded to the allegation in an Instagram put up Thursday, threatening potential authorized motion in opposition to Jones.
“I’m deeply damage by the lies in Rodney Jones’ lawsuit,” Pleasure wrote. “The declare that I’m a intercourse employee is 100% false and character assassination. I’m retaining an legal professional to discover all authorized treatments in opposition to each Rodney and his legal professional.”
The actress additionally aimed for her ex 50 Cent in a separate put up. The rapper seemingly made gentle of Jones’ allegation about Pleasure in an Instagram put up Wednesday, writing, “I didn’t know you was a intercourse employee, 👀you little intercourse employee. LOL 😆Yo this (stuff) is a film.”
Within the put up, Pleasure addressed 50 Cent by his beginning title, Curtis James Jackson, and criticized the “Sweet Store” emcee for “wreaking actual havoc, frenzy, and chaos onto folks’s lives.” She additionally blasted her ex-boyfriend for his alleged sexual abuse of her, in addition to his lack of involvement of their son’s life (the previous couple shares 12-year-old son Sire).
“Let’s put the true focus in your true evil actions of raping me and bodily abusing me,” Pleasure wrote. “You might be now not my oppressor and my God will deal with you from this level on. You may have completely broken the final hope I had for you as a father to protect our household with these final and last false claims made in opposition to me. You may have damaged our hearts for the final and last time.”
50 Cent seeks sole custody of son with Daphne Pleasure amid Diddy lawsuit
In an emailed assertion to USA TODAY Thursday, 50 Cent mentioned the “disturbing allegations” about Pleasure in Jones’ lawsuit in opposition to Diddy have “required me to take all needed authorized actions to guard my son.”
The rapper additionally dismissed Pleasure’s Instagram assertion as retaliation in opposition to him for searching for sole custody of Sire within the wake of the lawsuit.
“The newest false and baseless accusations by Daphne Pleasure are clearly in response to my determination to hunt sole custody of my son,” 50 Cent mentioned. “My son Sire is my principal precedence and protecting him in a protected setting is my solely focus presently.”
Diddy’s properties in Los Angeles, Miami raided by Homeland Safety Investigations
Jones’ amended lawsuit follows the raid of two of Combs’ properties. The properties had been searched by HSI on Monday as a part of a federal investigation.
Federal officers raided Combs’ Los Angeles residence Monday, in keeping with Rolling Stone and native Los Angeles information station Fox 11, amid lawsuits filed in opposition to him from accusers alleging the rapper and music mogul has raped or sexually assaulted them. Brokers additionally searched Combs’ Miami residence Monday, Rolling Stone and The Related Press reported.
The day after Combs’ properties had been raided, legal professional Aaron Dyer insisted on the rapper’s innocence and criticized the federal invasion for its “gross overuse of military-level power.”
“This unprecedented ambush – paired with a sophisticated, coordinated media presence – results in a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt primarily based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” Dyer mentioned in a press release to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Contributing: Naledi Ushe, USA TODAY