Annie Rose Ramos and Christine Samra
(KTLA) — The federal sex-trafficking investigation involving track wealthy person Sean “Diddy” Combs is broadening its achieve.
Rodney Jones, a track manufacturer who first sued Combs for sexual attack again in February, is now including Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. to that criticism.
Jones, often referred to as Lil Rod, mentioned the actor sexually confused and assaulted him, reminiscent of through groping him whilst aboard Combs’ yacht. Jones’ authentic lawsuit alleged Combs pressured him to obtain intercourse employees and compelled him to interact in unwelcome intercourse acts.
That very same lawsuit claims the Unhealthy Boy Information founder admitted to being chargeable for that notorious 1999 New York Town nightclub capturing that ended up getting him, then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez and rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow arrested.
In the end, Barrow was once charged with the capturing and was once sentenced to ten years in jail. Combs was once arrested on guns fees.
Capturing sufferer Natania Reuben mentioned Combs shot her within the face that evening.
“I actually watched them pull out the weapons; I had a transparent perspective,” she mentioned all over an look on “Elizabeth Vargas Reviews.” “I imply, I used to be actually shot in my nostril. I used to be going through them without delay; I watched the entirety happen.”
“As a result of his identify was once extra notable, he was once believed, slightly than a sufferer who gave a first-hand account,” she defined. “By way of the grace of God, I survived.”
Reuben filed a $130 million lawsuit for repayment towards Combs in 2008 and settled in June 2011.
Jones’ lawsuit is amongst many who the rap impresario has confronted lately, despite the fact that he’s no longer by myself in his felony woes.
In the meantime, in June of 2023, Gooding settled a civil sexual abuse case simply sooner than trial. He was once accused of raping a lady in a New York Town lodge 10 years prior.
Police officers instructed Nexstar’s KTLA that they have got no longer arrested Combs after raiding houses tied to him in Los Angeles and Miami on Monday.
They’ve arrested Combs’ alleged drug “mule,” who was once touring with him. Brendan Paul, 25, a Northeast Ohio guy, was once taken into custody on Monday at Miami’s Opa-Locka Airport.
Video presentations federal brokers intercepting Combs’ non-public aircraft sooner than Paul was once to board. He’s been booked on one rely of ownership of cocaine and marijuana sweet.
The Miami Usher in stories the “Final Evening” singer was once on the airport with Paul; the pair had been headed on a spring damage go back and forth with Combs’ dual daughters. This was once simply hours after each houses had been raided.
At the day of the raids, a non-public aircraft arrived within the Bahamas, which was once hooked up to Combs. Then again, the rustic’s high minister showed that Combs was once no longer on that aircraft.
Within the period in-between, his representatives and legal professionals take care of his innocence.
Legal professional Aaron Dyer referred to as the searches ”a gross use of military-level power” and that Combs is “blameless and can proceed to struggle” to transparent his identify.
Dyer issued a remark on Tuesday, an afternoon after the raids.
“There’s no excuse for the over the top display of power and hostility exhibited through government or the best way his kids and workers had been handled.”
Throughout the hunt at Combs’ L.A. house within the Holmby Hills community, his sons Justin Combs, 30, and Christian “King” Combs, 25, had been amongst the ones briefly detained out of doors.
Combs’ whereabouts are unknown presently.
KTLA has reached out to Gooding Jr.’s group for touch upon those allegations and has no longer heard again.