Earlier this year former Bad Boy Entertainment music producer, Lil Rod Jones, filed a lawsuit against Bad Boy CEO, Sean 'Diddy' Combs, accusing him of sixual harassment [click here if you missed that].
Now Diddy has filed to have the case dismissed...
From NBC News
Sean “Diddy” Combs is fighting back against a lawsuit filed against him by a former employee, accusing those who filed it of attempting to pressure him into a settlement by publicizing salacious allegations.
NBC News has obtained a motion filed by the embattled star's legal team to dismiss a lawsuit filed by attorney Tyrone Blackburn on behalf of his client, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones. The motion was filed in the U.S District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday.
Jones alleged in a lawsuit filed in February that Combs sixually harassed, drugged and threatened him while he worked for the mogul from September 2022 to November 2023. Jones is seeking $30 million in damages.
An amended complaint filed in Jones’ case in March then accused Combs of being part of a “RICO enterprise” and said he was involved in a “six trafficking venture.” A RICO enterprise is one in which people or groups act together to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which is meant to target organized crime.
The motion alleges that Jones’ suit is an attempt to “dress up a run-of-the-mill commercial disagreement as a salacious RICO conspiracy.” It alleges that the complaint failed to establish the criteria for a RICO case and that the lawsuit lacks standing.
“Running to nearly 100 pages, it includes countless tall tales, shameless celebrity namedrops, and irrelevant images,” the motion said of the lawsuit.
It also accused Jones of failing to provide specific instances with dates as to the alleged sixual harassment he endured while working for Combs. The motion described Jones’ allegations as vague.
Combs has denied Jones’ allegations.
“Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction — a shameless attempt to create media hype and extract a quick settlement,” Combs’ lawyer Erica Wolff said in a statement Monday. “There was no RICO conspiracy and Mr. Jones was not threatened, groomed, assaulted, or trafficked.”
“We look forward to proving — in a court of law — that all of Mr. Jones’s claims are made-up and must be dismissed,” Wolff added.
No comments:
Post a Comment