Daphne Pleasure, a mannequin embroiled in a custody battle with ex-boyfriend 50 Cent, accused the rapper of rape after he trolled her over being labeled a intercourse employee in a lawsuit towards Sean “Diddy” Combs. The G-unit emcee promptly denied the accusation.
The lawsuit, introduced by Combs’ “Love Album: Off the Grid” producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, named Pleasure and others in a 105-page criticism filled with illicit allegations about Combs and a number of other associates. The federal go well with was first filed in February, then amended this week amid bicoastal raids at Diddy’s Holmby Hills and Miami mansions that have been half a federal probe into Diddy relating to sex-trafficking allegations. It has pulled son Justin Dior Combs, the bosses of main document labels, Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr., Prince Harry and different notable trade figures into its wake.
“Sean Combs bragged about having a number of girls on a month-to-month stipend … to work as Mr. Combs’ intercourse employees,” Jones’ lawsuit mentioned, figuring out Daphne Pleasure, Combs’ ex-girlfriend Yung Miami and Instagram mannequin Jade Ramey as the ladies who obtained these funds. Jones’ $30-million sexual harassment lawsuit, filed in U.S District Courtroom for the Southern District of New York, mentioned that the ladies have been amongst “a lot of Combs’ intercourse trafficking/freak-off members.”
In a Thursday assertion posted on Instagram, Pleasure mentioned she was “deeply damage by the lies in Rodney Jones’ lawsuit” and asserted that the declare that she was a intercourse employee “is 100% false.” The mannequin mentioned she is retaining an legal professional “to discover all authorized cures” towards Jones and his legal professional, Tyrone A. Blackburn.
Combs has additionally denied the claims made in that lawsuit, in addition to these introduced individually by 4 girls, and his legal professional described the producer’s allegations as “full lies.”
Because the lawsuit entangled Combs and people in his far-reaching inside circle, longtime rival 50 Cent piled on by tweeting “they don’t come like that except they received a case.” 50 Cent, actual identify Curtis Jackson, additionally posted what seemed to be a paparazzi picture of his ex with the “I’ll Be Lacking You” rapper and trolled Pleasure by calling her a “little intercourse employee” within the caption. He referred to Combs by one his many pseudonyms.
“You moved a mile away in hopes of getting one other child with me however I used to be busy. So that you moved again and then you definitely began receiving cash from Brother Love. Now right here we’re, little intercourse employee,” he wrote.
Pleasure — who beforehand accused Jackson of abuse — rapidly rebutted his commentary and accused him of rape.
“Every little thing is a joke to you till our security is compromised, which is going on now. You’re wreaking actual havoc, frenzy, and chaos onto individuals’s lives. How would u really feel if [son] Sire was the one in handcuffs? For nothing,” she wrote in one other Instagram publish.
Pleasure mentioned she moved to New York to present Jackson “a possibility to be a father to your son,” alleging that over the span of two years, the rapper noticed their son solely 10 instances regardless of dwelling a mile away.
“I’m uninterested in upholding and defending a picture to our son that you’ve got by no means even earned,” she wrote, earlier than launching into her accusations towards Jackson.
“Let’s put the actual focus in your true evil actions of raping me and bodily abusing me. You’re now not my oppressor and my God will deal with you from this level on. You’ve gotten completely broken the final hope I had for you as a father to protect our household with these final and ultimate false claims made towards me. You’ve gotten damaged our hearts for the final and ultimate time,” she wrote.
By way of a spokesperson, Jackson on Friday denied the allegations that he had raped and bodily abused his ex-girlfriend.
“The disturbing allegations within the sworn pleadings not too long ago filed in a courtroom case associated to Daphne Pleasure the mom of my twelve yr previous baby, has required me to take all essential authorized actions to guard my son Sire,” the Grammy-winning rapper mentioned in a press release to The Occasions. (Sire, born Sept. 1, 2012, is 11 and Jackson’s second baby.)
“The latest false and baseless accusations by Daphne Pleasure are clearly in response to my resolution to hunt sole custody of my son. My son Sire is my important precedence and holding him in a protected atmosphere is my solely focus at the moment,” he mentioned.
The OnlyFans mannequin and the “In da Membership” hitmaker reportedly dated from 2011 to 2012 and break up after their son’s beginning. In a home violence case from 2013, prosecutors mentioned Pleasure and Jackson have been in a relationship for 3 years.
Relating to the “intercourse employee” labeling in producer Jones’ lawsuit, Yung Miami, a rapper whose actual identify is Caresha Romeka Brownlee, additionally denied the allegations. On Thursday, she wrote on X (previously Twitter): “Y’all be going for ANYTHING.”
“One thing the web made up and yall ran with it!!!” she added in a profanity-laced reply in regards to the alleged sum she was supposedly paid.
Ramey, a wellness coach, has in a roundabout way addressed Jones’ allegations. On Thursday, she shared a cryptic Instagram story that mentioned “Pure hearts at all times win ultimately. The sunshine is actual.”
In the meantime, 50 Cent wasn’t the one hip-hop determine taking pictures on the Unhealthy Boy Leisure co-founder amid his precipitous fall from grace previously yr.
In an outtake from his “Gather Name” podcast with Dave Mays, imprisoned Loss of life Row Data co-founder Suge Knight issued a warning to his longtime adversary, whom he nonetheless refers to as Puffy (primarily based on Diddy’s previous “Puff Daddy” moniker.)
“It’s a foul day for hip-hop … for the tradition … Black individuals, as a result of if one appears unhealthy, all of us look unhealthy,” Knight mentioned, based on audio obtained by TMZ. “That’s undoubtedly not nothing to cheer about.”
“However I’ll inform you what, Puffy: Your life is at risk,” added Knight, who’s serving a 28-year jail sentence for voluntary manslaughter. He claimed that he is aware of Combs’ “secrets and techniques” and mentioned “they gonna get you if they’ll.”
Diddy, who was final recognized to be in Florida. the place his legal professional mentioned he cooperated with authorities, has not been arrested or formally charged within the Homeland Safety investigation. His legal professional Aaron Dyer known as the raids an “unprecedented ambush” and “nothing greater than a witch hunt primarily based on meritless accusations.”