Cuba Gooding Jr. mentioned in the latest sexual assault trial against Diddy

Cuba Gooding Jr. was named in the latest sexual assault lawsuit filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The latest sexual assault accusation against the rap mogul is the fifth in the last 4 months, as Poultice indicated. The lawsuit was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, a producer who worked with Combs on his latest album, “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” from September 2022 through November. 2023.

Behind NBC Newsthe producer claims to have “lived and traveled with Combs” throughout this era and has hours of audio and video footage of Combs, his staff and others “engaging in serious illegal activity.” Jones accuses Combs of “sexually harassing, drugging and threatening him,” in addition to forcing him to “obtain prostitutes” and “engage in unwanted sexual acts with them.”

The plaintiff specifically mentions Gooding in the lawsuit, alleging that Combs urged Jones to “pass it on to his friends,” including Gooding. While the actor shouldn’t be named as a defendant in the lawsuit, he alleges that Gooding “groped and fondled him without his consent.”

The lawsuit details that “Mr. Combs had power and control over Cub Gooding Jr.’s actions, but he did not step in and stop Cub Gooding Jr. before sexually assaulting Mr. Jones.”

The lawsuit also alleges that Jones shared his concerns with Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, who allegedly dismissed Combs’ actions as “friendly fun” and a way for him to indicate Jones how much he “liked” him.

Jones specifically names Combs, his adult son Justin, Khorram, Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grainge and former Motown Records Ethiopia CEO Habtemariam. He is reportedly looking for $30 million and a jury trial.

Combs’ attorney, Shawn Holley, in an announcement to NBC News, called Jones’ claims “reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not occur.”

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“We have overwhelming, irrefutable evidence that his claims are complete lies. “Our attempts to share this evidence with Mr. Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored because Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls,” the statement read. “We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those making them.”

Representatives for Combs and Gooding didn’t immediately reply to requests for comment.

Gooding has faced multiple sexual assault allegations in recent years. In 2022, the “Jerry Maguire” actor pleaded guilty to 1 count of forcible touching in the sexual misconduct case against him, and last yr he settled a sexual abuse case just before trial. In November, the actor was sued again for sexual harassment, with two women claiming he “sexually assaulted and abused them” in separate incidents in 2018 and 2019.