Overview
- The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office confirmed this week that it is reviewing evidence detectives from the LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department presented in fall 2025 after a police report filed in September 2025.
- Publicist Jonathan Hay alleges two incidents in 2020 and 2021, saying Combs masturbated into a shirt belonging to the late Notorious B.I.G. and later forced Hay to perform oral sex, details that appear in his police report and civil filings.
- No state charges have been filed; prosecutors are evaluating the investigators' evidence to decide whether to bring misdemeanor or felony sexual battery counts, which carry very different potential penalties under California law.
- Combs is serving a 50-month federal sentence at FCI Fort Dix for transportation-to-engage-in-prostitution convictions and is appealing that verdict, and his legal team has categorically denied Hay's allegations as false and defamatory.
- A decision to charge would add a state criminal track to the many civil claims already pending against Combs and could shape future civil outcomes, public reputation, and how other alleged survivors pursue accountability.