Overview
- The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office confirmed it is reviewing two separate sexual‑assault investigations that the LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department each submitted in the fall of 2025.
- Those referrals center on allegations by publicist Jonathan Hay that he was sexually assaulted and unlawfully restrained in incidents reported from 2020 to 2021, and the DA is evaluating the evidence to decide whether to file charges.
- This week a separate civil lawsuit was filed in California by an anonymous former child actor using the pseudonym John YH Roe, who alleges Combs sexually assaulted him at a 2007 networking event when he was a minor, and CNN has obtained a copy of the complaint.
- Combs is currently serving a 50‑month federal sentence in New York for convictions on two counts related to transporting people for prostitution and his team has strongly denied the new allegations.
- If prosecutors file charges in Los Angeles, the case could create new criminal exposure beyond the federal convictions and the growing number of civil claims, and it may prompt further document and witness review by both sides in state and civil courts.