A lawsuit against Sean "Diddy" Combs claims that he allegedly had a secret code to let sex workers know he was in town in the form of a baseball cap.
The music mogul, 54, is under intense scrutiny after Homeland Security Investigations raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami on Monday as part of a sex trafficking investigation.
Combs has also been the recipient of multiple civil lawsuits accusing him of alleged sexual assault and trafficking, including the most recent one from music producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones.
Jones filed the lawsuit in February and submitted an amended suit to the court on Monday. He claims that he suffered psychologically after living with Combs for 13 months while working on Combs' The Love Album: Off the Grid beginning in 2022.
Jones accused Combs of allegedly partying with underaged girls, grooming Jones, forcing drug use, and making him lie about an alleged shooting. Jones also claimed that Combs spiked his drink "date rape drugs" and facilitated a "sex-trafficking venture," where the mogul forced Jones to find him sex workers. He also accused Combs of forcing Jones to have sex with them.
Newsweek contacted Combs' representatives by email for comment.
Jones also went into detail about how he would allegedly procure sex workers, in particular at a Miami strip club called Booby Trap on the River.
"As part of Mr. Jones' sex worker recruitment tools, Mr. Combs provided Mr. Jones with an exclusive Bad Boy baseball cap," the lawsuit read.
"They required him to wear it to Booby Trap on the River as a signal to any sex worker he approached that Mr. Combs was in town and had sent Mr. Jones to recruit them."
The lawsuit also alleged that "these workers were accustomed to servicing Mr. Combs and would know he was in town by the sight of the Bad Boys baseball cap."
Bad Boy refers to the record label started by Combs in 1993. The label signed huge names over the years, including the late rapper, Notorious B.I.G. It is now owned by Warner Music Group.
Jones claimed he did not want to attend the strip club nor did he want to find sex workers for Combs, but Combs allegedly "used many tactics to maintain dominion and control over Mr. Jones," according to the lawsuit.
The suit named three alleged sex workers and two spoke out after the amended suit was filed. Those named were City Girls rapper Yung Miami and models Jade Ramey and Daphne Joy, who shares a child with rapper 50 Cent.
The lawsuit claimed Combs would brag about paying a "monthly stipend" to the women for sexual services.
Joy denied the allegations in an Instagram post.
"I am deeply hurt by the lies in Rodney Jones' lawsuit. The claim that I'm a sex worker is 100% false and character assassination. I am retaining an attorney to explore all legal remedies against both Rodney and his attorney," her post read.
Ramey shared a post to her Instagram story, and while she didn't directly address it, the post read: "Pure hearts always win in the end. The light is real."
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