Jeanette Settembre
In the wake of a recent civil complaint filed against him, sources told The Post that Sean “Diddy” Combs has a history of wielding money and power to get others to do his dirty work.
“Other people carried out acts for him and he kept his hands clean,” an insider told The Post.
A lawsuit filed by music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones in February was amended this week with blockbuster allegations about Combs paying women cash for sex and having people on payroll carry drugs for him.
Jones, who previously worked with Combs, alleged last month that the rapper sexually harassed, drugged and threatened him for over a year.
This all comes as he hip-hop mogul’s Miami and Los Angeles homes were raided by Homeland Security on Monday.
Law-enforcement sources previously told The Post that the raids were in connection with a federal sex-trafficking investigation.
Rapper Mark Curry, who was signed to Combs’ Bad Boy Records in the aughts, said of Diddy: “He’s surrounded by movers and shakers. When you think of the music industry … a lot of illegal things go on behind closed doors. He took advantage of a lot of people who had dreams.”
Here is a look at Diddy’s inner circle.
Drug mules
Jones’ amended complaint alleges that Combs’ ex-girlfriend Yung Miami, 30, carried so-called “pink cocaine” — said to be a mix of cocaine and cheaper substances that can include ketamine, MDMA or opioids, and also known as “tusi” — across state lines for him.
According to the court document, Combs “wanted tusi” for a private-jet flight from Miami to the Something in the Water Music Festival in Virginia,”but Brendan [Paul, Diddy’s alleged drug mule] forgot it.”
Kristina Khorram, Combs’ chief of staff, phoned Brownlee, “who then brought it on the private jet from Miami,” the complaint alleges. “Plaintiff Jones personally witnessed Mr. Combs do a few lines of coke in his dressing room.”
Diddy and R&B singer Chris Brown were surprise guests during Pharrell Williams’ set at the 2023 festival.
City Girls rapper Yung Miami, whose real name is Caresha Rameka Brownlee, was reportedly in an open relationship with Combs from 2021 until late last year — during which time Diddy had a child with another woman, model Dana Tran.
Meanwhile, Monday saw the arrest of Brendan Paul — Combs’ alleged forgetful “drug mule” — at the Miami airport on Monday as he attempted to board a private jet with the rapper. He was slapped with a felony charge of one count of possession of suspected cocaine and suspected marijuana edibles, according to an arrest report obtained by The Post.
Paul, 25, played basketball at Syracuse University and became a music producer during the pandemic, getting a gig with Combs after his hoops career didn’t take off. He was a producer for Diddy’s “The Love Album,” released last September, and posted photos from the album release party boasting red rose petals and “love-inspired” drinks.
Before the drug bust, he was living large — jet-setting with Combs on the rapper’s all-black G550 Gulfstream jet and posting photos from their adventures.
Another Combs employee allegedly paid for the rapper’s’ “drugs and guns,” according to the lawsuit.
The Post has reached out to Paul, Khorram and Brownlee for comment.
‘Sex workers‘
The complaint alleges that Combs kept at least two women on his payroll for sex.
Instagram influencer Jade Ramey — who describes herself as a “certified wellness coach” — was allegedly paid a “monthly stipend” by Combs for sex work, according to Jones’s amended lawsuit.
The document also claims that rapper 50 Cent’s ex, OnlyFans Daphne Joy, was one of three women — including Brownlee — that Combs “bragged about” paying a “monthly stipend” for sex.
“It is unclear if they were provided the appropriate United States federal tax documents for these payments or if they independently declared these payments on their taxes,” the filing stated.
50 Cent reacted to the news on Instagram Thursday: “Yo this s–t is a movie.”
“The claim that I am a sex worker is 100% false and character assassination,” Joy posted on Instagram Thursday.
The complaint also claims Combs “used his power and influence to intimidate, and force, Mr. Jones into soliciting and sleeping with” sex workers from the Booby Trap gentlemen’s club in Miami — and that if Jones didn’t do what Combs wanted, the rapper “threatened to eat his face” and said he was willing to kill Jones’ mother.
The complaint includes photos of the women in question
Combs’ attorney, Shawn Holley, previously told Page Six that Jones’ “reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.”
The lawsuit also alleges that Jones believes Combs drugged him on more than one occasion, with Jones saying he woke up “naked, dizzy, and confused” and “in bed with two sex workers and Mr. Combs.”
Chief of staff — and much more
Diddy’s chief of staff, Khorram, is described as the “Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs’ Jeffrey Epstein,” in amended complaint and allegedly “ordered sex workers and prostitutes for him.”
The document also alleges that Khorram “required” Combs’ domestic employees to carry a “fanny pack filled with cocaine, GHB, ecstasy” and more for the rapper to indulge in his “drug of choice” at his command.
Combs’s attorney has disputed the claims.
Khorram joined Bad Boy Entertainment as a senior executive in 2013 and became a manager for Diddy, the “director, office of the chairman” of Combs Enterprises, according to her now-deleted LinkedIn profile. In 2020, she was appointed as Combs’ chief of staff.
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jones’ complaint accuses “Jerry Maguire” actor Cuba Gooding Jr., 56, of sexual assault — claiming the Oscar winner “began touching, groping, and fondling [his] legs, his upper inner thighs near his groin, the small of his back near his buttocks, and his shoulders” while on a yacht that Combs rented to tour the US Virgin Islands in January 2023. The Post has reached Gooding for comment.
Combs allegedly introduced Jones to Gooding and “suggested that Cuba ‘get to know’ Mr. Jones better,” according to the complaint. Gooding allegedly “did not stop [his advances] until Mr. Jones forcibly pushed him away.”
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