Lawsuits against Sean Combs, better known as Didi, continue to pile up. Combs is in Monday charged that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old at one of his famous "white parties." It is one of six new charges — the others relate to rape and sexual assault — and is part of a wave of 120 civil suits filed against him since September when he was criminally charged in federal court with racketeering, sexual exploitation and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.
While the federal indictment names only Combs as a defendant, some of his employees and associates are named as members of the criminal enterprise he ran. A series of civil lawsuits that hit him over the past year have identified several powerful and wealthy people in his environment, writes "Business Insider".
Prosecutors directly accuse them of wrongdoing - whether they witnessed the abuse, failed to stop it or allowed Didi to get the drugs. Some, such as Prince Harry, rapper Nicki Minaj and musician Usher, are only mentioned in passing and have not been charged with any crime.
Here are the famous people connected to the allegations against Combs.
R&B singer Aaron Hall
Aaron Hall, an R&B singer who was a member of Guy, was named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against Combs last November in New York Supreme Court. Lisa Gardner accused Combs and Hall of sexually assaulting her and a friend at Hall's apartment in 1990 when she was 16.
She says that Combs "forced" her to have sex with him and that after that "Hall came into the room, pinned her down and forced her" to have sex with him as well.
Music producer Harvey Pierre
Music producer Harvey Pierre is named as a defendant in two lawsuits against Combs. Both lawsuits were filed anonymously, one in New York Supreme Court and the other in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Pierre was Combs' first employee at Bad Boy Records and president of his Bad Boy Entertainment.
In the first lawsuit, filed in November 2023, a woman who worked as his assistant accused him of "manipulating, exploiting and sexually assaulting her." He says Combs and his colleagues facilitated this abuse.
In another lawsuit filed in December 2023, the plaintiff alleges that when she was 17 years old in 2003, Combs, Pierre and an unnamed third defendant raped and sexually trafficked her.
Pierre's lawyer said both charges were fabricated.
Cuba Gooding Jr
Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. was also accused of sexual assault.
Rodney Jones Jr., a music producer known as Lil Rod, accused Combs of "grooming" him to "pass" him to Gooding. Grooming is slang from the English language. It describes the process when an adult builds a relationship with a child, young person or adult, so that they can abuse them and manipulate them into doing things they would not otherwise want to do.
The complaint alleges that the two were left alone in a makeshift studio on a yacht that Combs had chartered. There, Gooding began "touching, groping and caressing Jones," according to the complaint. The actor previously pleaded guilty to the offense of forcible touching.
Justin Dior Combs
Jones also accused Diddy's 30-year-old son, Justin Dior Combs, of hiring sex workers and underage girls and participating in parties known as "freak-offs."
He also says that the younger and older Combs were the only other people present in the room when "Gee," his friend, was shot in the studio -- implying that one of them shot Gee.
Justin Combs' attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, said on his radio show that the allegation is "absolutely insane."
The famous jeweler Jacob Arabo
Jacob Arabo, better known as Jacob Goldsmith, was named as a defendant in the lawsuit filed against Combs by Adria English in July.
In the lawsuit, English accuses Combs of sexual assault, sexual harassment and human trafficking. The lawsuit alleges that she worked at Combs' famous white parties for years as a go-go dancer and that, at least at one of the parties, he forced her to have sex with an Arab, one of the party guests.
Rapper Young Miami
Young Miami, a member of City Girls, is named in Jones' amended complaint as part of Combs' sex-trafficking operation and is accused of bringing Combs "tushie," a drug sometimes called "pink cocaine," to Combs on a private jet.
The complaint alleges that she was one of Combs' sex workers. Her cousin is also alleged to have assaulted Jones, forcibly giving him oral sex without consent.
Stevie J
Jones alleges in his amended complaint that Grammy winner Stevie J, Combs' longtime collaborator, recruited sex workers and participated in Combs' "freakoffs," though he does not specifically accuse him.
Jones accuses Combs of teaching Stevie J what "kind of sex workers to look for and how to hire them." Jones also accuses Stevie J of sending threatening messages when Jones publicly asked Combs to pay him for work on Combs' "The Love Album."
Singer Kalena Harper
Kalena Harper was a member of Didda-Dirty Money.
Singer Dan Richard says in the complaint that she and Harper were at Combs' house, where they witnessed a scene in which Diddy yelled at his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and choked her, before throwing a "hot pot of eggs" at her and dragging her away. is up the stairs.
Richard says Harper took her out of the house, but the two later spoke with Ventura and encouraged her to leave the relationship. Combs responded with a threat, according to the complaint.
Harper wrote on her Instagram profile that Dan Richard's claims "are not consistent with her truth."
Jimmy Iovine
Dan Richard's complaint also mentions Jimmy Iovine, co-founder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics.
Richards talks about a dinner Combs hosted in the months leading up to the collaboration their companies signed. At the dinner, which was also attended by Ne-Yo, Usher and Cassie Ventura, Combs got into an argument with his girlfriend, punched her in the stomach, "making her fall over in pain."
"Even after Mr. Iovine watched Mr. Combs commit a violent attack in front of numerous witnesses, their agreement remained in effect and provided Mr. Combs with enormous financial rewards, but also to continue to commit violence without fear of consequence," the complaint states.
Lucian Grange
Universal Music Group CEO and Sofia Richie's father-in-law Lucian Grange was originally named as a defendant in Jones' amended suit, but that has since been withdrawn.
He was originally accused of assisting Combs, specifically in racketeering and human trafficking. Universal's Motown Records had a licensing deal with Combs' Love Records.
The complaint says that as CEO, Grange "had a duty to ensure that the financial support provided to Sean Combs and Love Records was not used for sex workers, drugs and alcohol."
Attorneys for Grange filed a motion to dismiss, calling the allegations "outrageously false."
Source: Business Insider
