Diddy on raid: ‘Unprecedented ambush’

Combs’ attorney, Aaron Dyer, called the federal raid “an unprecedented ambush” that has led to “a premature rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits…Mr. Combs is innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name.”

Combs, also known by the names “Puff Daddy” and “Diddy,” has been accused by several other women of sexual assault, one of whom was 17 when the abuse happened, according to the court filing.

Rodney “’Lil Rod” Jones, a music producer, is also suing Combs, alleging in a February lawsuit that Combs drugged him without his knowledge and forced him to have sex with male prostitutes as part of one of his “Freak-Offs.” Jones also claimed the music mogul installed hundreds of hidden cameras in his homes to record people having sex.

Jones compared Combs to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — and he likened Combs’ chief of staff, Kristina Khorram, to Epstein’s former assistant, Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell, 62, is serving a 20-year-sentence for sex trafficking of minors. Epstein died while in custody awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in New York.

The Herald was unsuccessful in reaching Khorram.

Jones’ lawsuit also takes aim at several music executives, unnamed R&B artists and rappers, and actor Cuba Gooding Jr., whom he alleges either knew about or participated in sex activities. Jones added Gooding as co-defendant in an amended complaint filed Monday in a New York federal district court.

Parties at Miami strip club

Jones claims that he was directed by Combs and others employed by him to go out to the “The Booby Trap on the River” a Miami strip club, to recruit sex workers and other men and women for Combs and his friends to pay for sex.

“Mr Combs provided Mr. Jones with an exclusive ‘Bad Boy’ baseball cap and required him to wear it to the Booby Trap on the River as a signal to any sex worker that he approached that Mr. Combs was in town and had sent Mr. Jones to recruit them,” Jones says in the lawsuit filed by New York attorney Tyrone Blackburn.

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