March 26, 2025
“We view this as a win. Defendants wished a complete dismissal they usually did not get it,” mentioned Lil Rod’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn
Sean “Diddy” Combs scored a partial authorized victory on March 24, when a New York Metropolis federal choose dismissed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act allegation and different expenses the leisure mogul was accused of. But, different components of the lawsuit will proceed.
Based on USA At present, within the lawsuit that music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed in opposition to Diddy for $30 million, he accused the previous Unhealthy Boy Information label proprietor of sexual assault, harassment, and working a racketeering and conspiracy enterprise that concerned intercourse trafficking. Attorneys for Diddy filed a movement to dismiss, however the choose acknowledged that the fees of RICO, breach of contract, and infliction of emotional misery can be dismissed. Nonetheless, the sexual assault allegations levied in opposition to Diddy would proceed. These allegations have been in opposition to Diddy, his enterprise enterprise, and his chief of workers, Kristina Khorram.
Lil Rod made the accusations when he filed the lawsuit in February 2024, claiming the acts happened whereas he was recording Diddy’s undertaking, “The Love Album: Off the Grid,” which was launched in 2023.
The lawyer representing Lil Rod, Tyrone Blackburn, submitted a written assertion to the media outlet saying, “We view this as a win. Defendants wished a complete dismissal, they usually did not get it.”
Nevertheless, Choose J. Paul Oetken admonished Blackburn for his conduct, describing it as “unsettling.” The choose criticized the lawyer and acknowledged that Blackburn’s try to make use of separate authorized claims in opposition to Diddy as proof of doing what he’s accused of can’t be used to show that he could also be responsible of Lil Rod’s claims.
“That any licensed member of the bar would espouse such an absurd understanding of the legislation is not only disturbing, however surprising,” he wrote in his declaration. Choose Oetken additionally chastised Blackburn for insulting the attorneys for Combs in his filings and utilizing “schoolyard taunts” towards them.
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