Diddy and his attorneys are trying to close down one of many fits in opposition to the Dangerous Boy mogul — the one by producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones.
Jones sued Diddy again in February of this 12 months, accusing him of sexual harassment in addition to drugging and threatening the producer over the course of a 12 months.
On Monday (August 26), Diddy’s authorized workforce fired again with a movement to get the case dismissed. They backed up their case with a 33-page “memorandum of law” that places ahead their arguments. You may learn it in its entirety right here.
Sean Diddy Combs’ lawyer Erica Wolff of Sher Tremonte LLP issued an announcement to go together with the memo.
“Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction — a shameless attempt to create media hype and extract a quick settlement,” she stated. “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.”
Diddy’s try and get the case thrown out doesn’t handle any of the alleged info of the case, because the authorized proceedings haven’t but reached that stage.
As a substitute, it makes a collection of technical arguments, saying that the go well with is solely an “attempt to dress up a run of the mill commercial disagreement” — over cash for Jones’s alleged work on Diddy’s undertaking The Love Album: Off the Grid — “as a salacious RICO conspiracy.”
The memorandum additionally mentions feedback Jones made whereas at 50 Cent’s Humor & Concord Competition. The producer bumped into Uncle Murda, they usually made a brief video the place Jones stated relating to his go well with, “I’m from Chicago, we don’t play about our business.”
Lil Rod, who’s presently suing Diddy for $30 million over allegations of sexual assault, despatched a message to Diddy, saying he desires his cash by Monday, after being noticed by Uncle Murda at 50 Cent’s ‘Humor & Concord Weekend. pic.twitter.com/ezL0HAsFcC
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“Jones’ videotaped threats on social media are part of a calculated effort to promote his personal brand and profit from the exposure,” the submitting reads.
In different Diddy authorized information, a lady who sued him final month for intercourse trafficking lately filed a police report about her allegations.
Based on TMZ, Adria English filed her police report with the Miami Seaside PD earlier in August, detailing the allegations she’d listed in her lawsuit.
Nonetheless, detectives have decided that not sufficient proof was offered be capable to examine human trafficking or every other crime – however they did share the report with federal authorities who’re investigating quite a few different claims in opposition to the embattled mogul.
Adria’s lawyer Ariel Mitchell revealed to the outlet that her consumer is “cautiously optimistic” in regards to the matter and plans to quickly file a police report in New York Metropolis as effectively.
