Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing new s£xual battery charges in California.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office confirmed that Diddy, 56, is facing a new criminal probe, even as he tries to get his federal conviction overturned.
The accuser is publicist Jonathan Hay, who filed a police report last September in his hometown of Largo, Florida. Hay alleges that Diddy s£xually battered him on two separate occasions in 2020 and again in 2021.
In the first incident, Hay claimed that Diddy m@sturbated into one of the Notorious B.I.G.’s shirts before telling the producer to “come finish him off” before ejaculating and throwing the shirt at him.
In the second incident, Hay claimed that he ended up with Diddy inside a room when he called Hay a “snitch” and forcefully put his p£nis in the producer’s mouth.
According to Venusse D. Dunn, the DA’s chief of communications, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) presented separate presentations on their investigations into a single alleged victim’s claims to the District Attorney’s Office.
Dunn added that the case is currently under review.
In a statement to the Daily Mail on Monday, Hay called himself a ‘survivor’ of Diddy and said that ‘having my painful experiences heard and validated by the LAPD and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is an undeniable turning point.
‘This progress marks a significant victory in my fight for total accountability,’ he continued. ‘I am certain that justice will be achieved and that full responsibility will be enforced.’
According to TMZ – which first reported on the DA’s probe – Hay filed his police report in his hometown of Largo, Florida, but it was subsequently transferred to Los Angeles, as that’s where the alleged crimes took place.
Hay said he had been enlisted to help remix a track originally recorded by Wallace, who also went by The Notorious B.I.G. Wallace was only 24 when he was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in 1997.
Hay was working on the Biggie Smalls tribute project remix with the late rapper’s son, CJ Wallace, who was also named as a defendant in his lawsuit for allegedly conspiring to ‘allow or assist in Combs’ ability to carry out’ his sexual battery.
In his civil suit, Hay said that Diddy – who was a close friend and collaborator of Wallace’s – dropped by the studio during a September 2020 session and criticized the music they had worked on so far and urged him to take ketamine to make the music sound better.
Hay’s suit said he later accompanied Diddy and some of his entourage to a warehouse in Los Angeles, where some of the Notorious B.I.G.’s clothing was being stored before it would be donated to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame later that year.
Hay’s lawsuit claimed he was left alone in a room with Diddy, who allegedly proceeded to masturbate onto a shirt that had belonged to his late friend.
The civil suit alleged that Diddy then ordered Hay to ‘come finish him off’ to reach climax.
According to the civil suit, Diddy allegedly ejaculated onto the shirt and then tossed the soiled clothing at Hay, which contaminated his own clothing.
Hay’s civil suit went on to allege that his interactions with Diddy escalated months later in March 2021, when the disgraced mogul allegedly grabbed his head and forced Hay to perform oral s£x on him against his will.
The publicist added that the alleged experience left him feeling suicidal.