The Los Angeles County sheriff’s division is investigating Sean “Diddy” Combs for sexual battery, NBC Information and ABC Information report. Deputy Alejandra Parra confirmed to Pitchfork that the division acquired a report from the Largo Police Division, in Florida, on Friday, November 14, and that the division’s particular victims bureau shall be investigating the allegations. The Largo Police Division shouldn’t be additionally independently investigating Diddy, based on ABC Information.
In response to NBC Information, the police report particulars an alleged 2020 incident involving Diddy and a male music producer and publicist. Diddy allegedly invited the person to a photograph shoot at a Los Angeles warehouse. On the shoot, Diddy allegedly masturbated underneath a shirt, uncovered himself, and requested the male producer and publicist to carry out a intercourse act on him. When the person didn’t reply, Diddy allegedly threw the soiled shirt at him.
The subsequent 12 months, based on the reviews, the person was again in Southern California for a undertaking associated to the picture shoot. Whereas at a home, two males lined his head and took him to a room the place Diddy allegedly yelled at him, referred to as him a snitch, and sexually assaulted him. The alleged sufferer’s title is redacted within the police report.
In an announcement to ABC Information, Jonathan Davis, an legal professional for Diddy, mentioned: “As Mr. Combs’ authorized workforce has repeatedly acknowledged for over a 12 months now, he can’t handle each meritless allegation in what has turn into a media circus. Let me make it completely clear, Mr. Combs categorically denies as false and defamatory all claims that he sexually abused anybody. He appears to be like ahead to vindicating himself in court docket, the place such issues are determined—and never within the media—based mostly on admissible, materials proof, not rank hypothesis and unsubstantiated allegations.”
Diddy is at the moment serving a 50-month federal jail sentence after he was discovered responsible, in July, on two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution. Diddy and his authorized workforce are interesting the sentence because the rapper serves time on the federal correctional establishment at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He’s collaborating in a drug abuse rehabilitation program that would assist him get launched from custody sooner than the projected date of Sunday, June 4, 2028.
The sexual battery investigation is separate from the federal legal prices that have been introduced in opposition to Diddy. He’s nonetheless dealing with quite a few lawsuits associated to allegations of sexual violence. Diddy has denied most allegations of wrongdoing.
Should you or somebody you realize has been affected by sexual assault, we encourage you to achieve out for assist:
RAINN Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline
https://www.rainn.org
1 800 656 HOPE (4673)
Disaster Textual content Line
SMS: Textual content “HELLO” or “HOLA” to 741-741
