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All the famous people who appear in the sexual assault lawsuits filed against Sean Diddy Combs

September 24, 20240
Aaron Hall is an R&B singer and defendant in a lawsuit brought against Combs.

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Aaron Hall, an R&B singer who was part of the group Guy, was named as a defendant in a complaint filed against Combs last November in the New York Supreme Court ahead of the expiration date for New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which provided a one-year window in which people could bring cases of sexual assault outside the typical statute of limitations.

The plaintiff, who is named Liza Gardner, accuses Combs and Hall of sexually assaulting her and a friend in Hall’s apartment after a music industry event hosted by MCA Records in 1990 when she was 16 years old. She says Combs “coerced” her into having sex with him and that afterward, “Hall barged into the room, pinned her down, and forced” her to have sex with him too.

The plaintiff also alleges that Combs found her at her home and choked her until she passed out; he was worried his girlfriend would find out about the incident, the complaint says.

In one YouTube video cited in the complaint, Hall says in an interview that “Puffy” — what Combs was known as in the 1990s — had seen him have sex.

Hall could not be reached for comment. His lawyer was not yet identified in court documents as of April 8.

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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is named as a defendant and accused of sexual assault.

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An amended complaint filed in March in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York by Rodney Jones Jr. — a music producer who goes by Lil Rod — lists Cuba Gooding Jr. as a defendant. Jones accuses Gooding of sexual harassment and sexual assault.

Specifically, Jones accuses Combs of grooming him to “pass him off” to Gooding. The two were left alone in a makeshift studio on a yacht rented by Combs, according to the complaint.

There, Gooding began “touching, groping, and fondling Mr. Jones’ legs, his upper inner thighs near his groin, the small of his back near his buttocks, and his shoulders,” the complaint alleges.

The actor previously pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of forcible touching.

Gooding’s attorney did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Justin Dior Combs, Diddy’s son, is a defendant in one of the lawsuits against his father.

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While not necessarily a celebrity in his own right, Justin Dior Combs — Diddy’s 30-year-old son — is a defendant in Jones’ amended complaint in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York.

In a wide-ranging list of allegations, Jones accuses Justin Combes of soliciting sex workers and underaged girls, as well as engaging in “freak offs.”

He also says the younger and older Combs were the only other two people present in the room when “G,” a friend of his, was shot at a recording studio — implying one of them shot G.

Justin Combs was at Combs’ Los Angeles home when it was raided by feds and was seen handcuffed on the lawn outside, though he was not arrested.

Justin Combs’ lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, said that the complaint was “utterly bonkers” on his radio show “Beyond the Legal Limit.”

“It’s clearly written in an effort to get as much publicity as possible, not only for the case but for the lawyer whose name I don’t even remember, literally some maniac,” he said.

Lichtman did not respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Stevie J and Sean Combs have been longtime collaborators.

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Jones alleges that Grammy winner Stevie J, Combs’ longtime collaborator, recruited sex workers and participated in Combs’ “freak offs” in his amended complaint filed in the US District Court in the Southern District of New York, though he does not name Stevie J as a defendant.

Jones accuses Combs of instructing Stevie J to teach him “the type of sex workers to solicit, and way to solicit them.”

Jones also accuses Stevie J of sending threatening messages when Jones publicly asked Combs to pay him for his work on Combs’ “The Love Album.”

The complaint also says that Combs used his connection to Stevie J — Jones’ “idol” — to pressure Jones into sex.

“I’ve never seen my man do anything foul like they talking about… I’ve never seen it, I’ve known him for 29 years,” Stevie J told TMZ earlier this month.

His attorney did not reply to a request for comment from Business Insider.

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Jimmy Iovine witnessed Combs assault Ventura, one complaint says.

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Richard’s complaint also includes mention of Jimmy Iovine, the cofounder of Interscope Records and Beats Electronics.

The complaint recounts a dinner party held by Combs in the months leading up to a deal between his Bad Boy Entertainment and Iovine’s Interscope Geffen A&M Records.

At the dinner, in front of Iovine, as well as dinner guests Ne-Yo and Usher, Ventura and Combs had an argument that resulted in Combs punching her in the stomach, “causing her to double over in visible pain, crying,” the complaint says.

“Even after Mr. Iovine watched Mr. Combs commit a violent assault in front of numerous high-profile witnesses, the Bad Boy-Interscope deal took place and remained in effect, providing Mr. Combs with immense financial rewards and enabling him to commit further acts of violence without fear of repercussions,” the complaint says.

Usher, Ne-Yo, and Iovine did not reply to a request for comment from Business Insider about the allegations in Richard’s complaint.