What Diddy Court Document Photos Reveal

Following the raids on his properties by Homeland Security, there has been renewed interest in a lawsuit filed against Sean "Diddy" Combs in February.

Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones sued the 54-year-old and is asking for $30 million in damages after accusing Diddy of sex trafficking, abuse, forced drug use, fraud and sexual assault.

The music producer claims he has suffered psychologically since working with Diddy on his The Love Album: Off the Grid record and that the music mogul failed to pay him for his efforts.

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Sean "Diddy" Combs attends the 2022 Billboard Music Awards on May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has been sued for sex trafficking and assault in a civil case. Mindy Small/FilmMagic

Diddy broke his silence through his attorney on Tuesday after Homeland Security raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami in a sex-trafficking investigation, slamming it as an "overuse of military-level force as search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs' residences."

"This unprecedented ambush... leads to a premature rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits," attorney Aaron Dyer said in a statement, adding that Diddy was "innocent and will continue to fight every single day to clear his name."

But this is far from the case, according to Jones, who in his 73-page lawsuit, also included photos, screenshots and stills from videos to aid his case against Diddy.

Diddy denied Jones' claims in a previous statement from attorneys: "We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies."

Some of the pictures are graphic in nature and depict sex acts, while some show the aftermath of an alleged shooting.

The Defendants

Firstly, there are individual photos of the defendants, including Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Charles Grainge.

Many of the photos are professional headshots, but there are some candid photos of Diddy's son, Justin Combs, and a close-up photo of Diddy himself.

Other photos for background include Jones in a studio with other musicians.

From there the photos become more graphic and incriminating.

Blood in the Bathroom

Two photos showed what Jones claims was the aftermath of a shooting in a music studio restroom where a man only identified as "G" was shot. The photos show blood, clothes and paper towels strewn across the restroom.

Jones alleges Diddy and his crew forced him to lie about the events of the evening on September 12, 2022. The music producer alleged they were at a music writer and producer's camp at Chalice Recording Studio when Diddy's son Justin and G were having a heated conversation that ended up in the restroom.

Jones says "gunshots rang out" shortly after and people gathered around the restroom when he noticed G was bleeding and he was afraid he might be shot next. He was the only one that assisted G and got him to the ambulance, with Diddy allegedly telling people to say the shooting happened outside the studio.

The lawsuit includes a screenshot from a news article that reported the shooting happened outside the studio, which Jones says is incorrect.

Sexual Incidents

The next series of claims covers a range of sexual assault incidents that Jones claimed happened to him.

The first lot of photos show screenshots of two men appearing to be engaged in a sexual act, which Jones says Diddy forced him to watch, telling him one of the men, who is named in the suit, was an esteemed musician that Jones admired.

The lawsuit claims Diddy used Jones' admiration of the musician to "groom and entice" him to "engage in homosexuality." Diddy allegedly told Jones that homosexuality "is a normal practice in the music industry."

Next was a series of stills from a video from a party that happened on Thanksgiving in 2022. They showed Jones and Diddy at the party, but also rapper Yung Miami and her cousin.

Jones says he believed Diddy told Yung Miami's cousin to follow him into the bathroom to offer sexual services and when he rejected her advances, she followed him back to the party and tried to have sex with him in front of the other attendees. Jones says the music mogul also forced him to take cocaine at the party.

Another series of video stills show Diddy talking to Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. onboard the rapper's yacht. Jones says he believed Diddy had been grooming him to pass off to his friends including Gooding Jr.

Some of the stills show Gooding Jr. in close proximity to Jones, which the lawsuit says shows the actor "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" against his will.

Sex Workers

In the lawsuit, Jones accuses Diddy of sex-trafficking and forcing him to procure sex workers for him when they were in Miami. Photos show some of the alleged sex workers, but their faces are blacked out.

Sex work is criminalized in the state of Florida.

Some of the photos also show the strip club called Booby Trap on the River, where Jones says Diddy sent him to find the sex workers, even though Jones didn't want to do it.

"Mr. Combs provided Mr. Jones with an exclusive Bad Boy baseball cap and 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 reads.

Another explosive claim in the suit alleges Diddy drugged Jones and the latter woke up in bed, finding himself with two sex workers and Diddy. Two photos in the suit allegedly show the sex workers and Diddy sleeping in a bed.

Illicit Parties

One allegation was that Diddy regularly partied with sex workers and underage girls. The suit shows multiple video stills with Diddy dancing with women whose faces are blacked out, but claims they are underage or sex workers.

Some of the remaining images include alleged threatening messages from DeForrest Taylor, the A&R manager at Diddy's Love Records label, to Jones after he tried to get the money Diddy owed him for his music producing work.

The lawsuit also compared Kristina Khorram, Diddy's chief-of-staff, to Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving 20 years in prison for sex trafficking women and girls for her ex-boyfriend, the notorious businessman Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit even included a photo of Khorram sitting beside Diddy on a lounge in a similar photo to one of Epstein and Maxwell.

"It was important to Defendant Khorram to have Mr. Combs' drug of choice immediately ready when he asks for it," the suit reads, and also claimed she required all staff from butlers to housekeepers to walk around with a pouch full of different illicit drugs should Diddy want them at any moment.

The suit also alleges: "Khorram ordered sex workers and prostitutes for Mr. Combs," and includes photos of the drug "tuci" which is a combination of ecstasy and cocaine.

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