The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating a sexual battery allegation from five years ago against Sean "Diddy" Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two interstate prostitution convictions.
The new allegation was made in Largo, Florida, on Sept. 20, according to a police report. A male music publicist and producer said he was invited to a photo shoot in a Los Angeles warehouse in 2020 about an upcoming project, according to the police report.
The accuser alleged that at the shoot, Combs began masturbating under a shirt while he was watching pornography and then exposed himself and told the accuser to assist, according to the report.
The producer did not respond to Combs, who continued before he threw the shirt at him, he told police, according to the document.
The man told police that he did not tell anyone about the event out of embarrassment, according to the police report. In March 2021, while he was in Santa Monica about the music project, two men at a house grabbed the producer, threw something over his head and took him to a room where Combs berated him and called him a snitch, the man told Largo police, according to the report.
The name of person who made the new sexual battery complaint is redacted in the Largo police report.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said it received a copy of the Largo police report Friday.
“Special Victims Bureau will be investigating the allegations,” the sheriff’s department said.
Combs' civil attorney Jonathan Davis said in a statement: “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has repeatedly stated for over a year now, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a media circus."
He added that Combs "categorically denies as false and defamatory all claims that he sexually abused anyone. He looks forward to vindicating himself in court, where such matters are decided — and not in the media — based on admissible, material evidence, not rank speculation and unsubstantiated allegations.”
The allegations are separate from those that sent Combs to prison.
A jury convicted Combs on July 2 of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution at the conclusion of an eight-week federal trial in New York. He was acquitted on two more serious charges: racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
Combs, the Grammy-winning rapper who founded Bad Boy Records, pleaded not guilty. He is incarcerated at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security federal prison in New Jersey.
In the trial, prosecutors accused Combs of leading a criminal enterprise spanning decades. Two of his former girlfriends, Casandra "Cassie" Ventura and a woman known pseudonymously as "Jane," accused him of forcing them to participate in marathon, drug-fueled sexual encounters known as "freak offs."
Combs, 56, still faces a raft of civil lawsuits accusing him of rape and sexual assault. He has denied wrongdoing.
