Overview
- A plaintiff filing under the pseudonym John YH Roe sued Sean 'Diddy' Combs in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, saying the 2007 incident occurred after Combs led him to a back room, offered him a drink and sexually assaulted him.
- The complaint names two talent agencies and their founder as co-defendants, alleging the agencies sent the minor to the event without a chaperone and failed to protect him.
- The suit advances claims including childhood sexual assault, sexual battery, false imprisonment, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent supervision and seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.
- Combs is serving a federal sentence after a 2025 conviction on Mann Act-related counts and his spokesman has publicly denied the new allegations, calling them false and financially motivated.
- The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is reviewing separate investigations presented by LAPD and LASD, and any criminal decision would follow a different standard than the civil case while the complaint proceeds on its own timetable.