The Los Angeles County sheriff’s division is investigating Sean “Diddy” Combs for sexual battery, NBC News and ABC News 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, in accordance with 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 beneath 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 yr, in accordance with the studies, the person was again in Southern California for a mission 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, known as him a snitch, and sexually assaulted him. The alleged sufferer’s title is redacted within the police report.
In a press release to ABC Information, Jonathan Davis, an legal professional for Diddy, stated: “As Mr. Combs’ authorized workforce has repeatedly acknowledged for over a yr now, he can’t deal with each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be 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 ahead to vindicating himself in courtroom, 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 presently serving a 50-month federal prison sentence after he was found guilty, in July, on two counts of transportation to have interaction in prostitution. Diddy and his authorized workforce are appealing the sentence because the rapper serves time on the federal correctional establishment at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He’s participating in a drug abuse rehabilitation program that might 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 criminal charges that had been introduced towards 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 understand 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
