A New York judge has dismissed five out of nine claims in producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones' $30 million sexual assault and harassment lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs. Jones had alleged that Combs, along with his team, sexually harassed, drugged, and assaulted him during his work on Combs' "Love" album from September 2022 to November 2023. While Judge J. Paul Oetken dismissed several claims, including under the RICO and TVPA acts against Combs Global, he allowed some specific allegations of sexual assault and premises liability to move forward. The judge found Jones' allegations of being drugged and sexually assaulted plausible but dismissed the emotional distress and breach of contract claims due to lack of adequate pleading and non-written agreement. Jones' lawyer Tyrone Blackburn deemed the partial ruling a victory and looks forward to further proceedings. Combs is simultaneously detained on unrelated prostitution and trafficking charges, with a trial scheduled for May 5.

The judge criticized Jones' attempt to frame the allegations as a racketeering case, writing that he had failed to properly argue the point and noting, “Jones fails to address any of these arguments in his opposition brief, and while the Court prefers to decide issues on the merits, it should not be necessary to root around a 402-paragraph complaint to contrive novel arguments on Jones’s behalf.” The court also took the unusual step of calling out Blackburn by name in a section titled “Warning to Counsel.” Judge Oetken slammed the attorney’s filings as “replete with inaccurate statements of law, conclusory accusations, and inappropriate ad hominem attacks on opposing counsel,” and called one legal claim “not just disturbing, but shocking.”


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Majority of Producer Rodney Jones' Claims Against Sean 'Diddy' Combs in Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed

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