Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a federal judge to reject the explosive sexual assault, trafficking and racketeering lawsuit filed against him by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in the wake of the sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit that Diddy settled with his ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura within 24 hours last year. In a new motion to dismiss filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for Diddy called the latest 98-page version of Jones’ complaint “vague,” “shameless” and overwrought. They allege Jones, who worked with Combs on the Grammy-nominated Love Album between September 2022 and late 2023, is attempting to “dress up a run of the mill commercial disagreement as a salacious RICO conspiracy” and should be turned away with no recourse to try again.
(Jones filed his first complaint in February and amended it twice before recently agreeing to drop music giant Universal Music Group as a defendant altogether.) “Despite all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, the [second amended complaint] fails to state a single viable claim against any of the Combs defendants,” the new motion paperwork states. “Replete with legally meaningless allegations and blatant falsehoods, the SAC’s true purpose is to generate media hype and exploit it to extract a settlement.
” Combs and his lawyers allege Jones has no standing to make a racketeering claim because they assert his breach of contract claim for alleged non-payment does not qualify.