Diddy Wants to Drop Producer’s Lawsuit, Says It’s Full of ‘Blatant Lies’

Sean “Diddy” Combs asked a federal judge on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a music producer that accused the music mogul of broad sexual abuse and other inappropriate conduct.

The February lawsuit filed by Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones — one of several filed against Combs up to now yr — is riddled with “extraordinary tales,” “blatant theatrics,” “legally meaningless allegations” and “blatant lies” intended only to “generate a media frenzy and use it to force a settlement,” according to a motion to dismiss filed in federal court in New York.

According to the motion, the case fails to show that Jones has legal standing to bring the lawsuit, lacks essential details equivalent to the time and site of the events described, and “fails to state a single viable claim.”

When Jones filed his lawsuit in February, several lawsuits had already been filed accusing Combs of sexual harassment and other forms of abuse, however the circumstances surrounding the hip-hop star have since turn out to be even grimmer.

In March, simultaneous raids on Combs’ homes in Florida and California led to the revelation that he was the topic of an ongoing federal sex trafficking investigation.

And in May, CNN aired a 2016 hotel security video showing him punching, kicking and dragging R&B singer Cassie, who was his protégé and longtime girlfriend on the time. The incident closely matched the outline in a lawsuit she filed in November that was settled the subsequent day but drew intense scrutiny of Combs.

Days after the video aired, Combs posted an apology video on social media, saying he was “truly sorry” and that his behavior was “inexplicable.”

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Jones’s sprawling lawsuit, which also names Combs’ son and several other of his associates as defendants, describes a yr Jones spent in Los Angeles and Miami as a music mogul preparing to release an album due in 2022 and 2023.

Jones says he witnessed — and in lots of cases audiotaped — lots of of hours of illegal drug and sexual intercourse by Combs and people around him. Combs’ Monday filing says it’s “replete with incredible tales of impropriety” but “contains very few allegations about Jones other than the allegation that Combs failed to pay a producer for his work.”

Combs alleges that the lawsuit is an attempt to portray the trade dispute as a broad criminal conspiracy led by Combs without presenting any substantial evidence.

Jones also claims Combs tried to solicit sex from him, groped him, forced him to use prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them.

However, the motion filed by Combs’ attorneys says that “Jones failed to state the most basic facts, such as the location and time the alleged assault occurred or what allegedly happened,” and failed to present evidence that Jones was coerced in a way that made him a victim.

The Associated Press doesn’t typically name individuals who say they’ve been sexually assaulted unless they admit it publicly, as Jones and Cassie did.

Other than what was captured on hotel security footage of Cassie, Combs has completely denied the allegations made within the lawsuits against him.

“Let’s be clear. I did not do any of the horrible things that have been accused of me,” he said in a post in December.