A former child actor isn’t just suing Sean “Diddy” Combs. He’s also going after the agents who were supposed to be looking out for him, claiming they left him alone with adult industry figures at a Hollywood Hills networking event in May 2007.
The lawsuit, filed this week in California, accuses Combs of sexually assaulting the plaintiff at that event. The man is unidentified, and the filing doesn’t give his exact age at the time, only that he was under 18.
According to the complaint, Combs steered him into a backroom “to speak to him privately about some potential opportunities,” including an upcoming project Combs was producing.
The plaintiff says Combs offered him a drink, and that after he began to “feel the effects of the beverage,” Combs started touching him even though he said he was uncomfortable.
The filing goes on to describe Combs pulling down the plaintiff’s clothes and sexually assaulting him while touching himself.
“This assault was so extreme as to go beyond the bound of decency and be regarded intolerable by civilized society,” the lawsuit states, adding that the conduct was “intended to terrorize and cause him emotional distress.”
The claims against the agents are their own thread. The plaintiff says they failed to arrange a chaperone, didn’t confirm his guardians would be there, and never ensured he “would not be left alone with adult industry figures in private rooms or secluded areas.
Combs’ camp fired back fast. Spokesman Juda Engelmayer called the allegations “false and ridiculous” and painted the plaintiff as an opportunist.
He’s just another hater in a long list of people trying to get in on the money gravy train encouraged by personal injury lawyers,” Engelmayer said.
Mr. Combs has never sexually assaulted anyone, and that includes any child! These allegations will be disproved like all the rest.”
That “long list” line isn’t an exaggeration in terms of volume. This suit joins dozens of civil claims filed against Combs since his arrest in New York in 2024.
The criminal side of his story played out last year over an eight-week trial. Jurors acquitted him of the heavier sex trafficking and racketeering charges but convicted him on two lesser prostitution-related counts, and he’s now serving a 50-month sentence with release currently set for 2028.
His legal team hasn’t stopped fighting that outcome. An appeal is pending with the U.S. Court of Appeals, where his lawyers argue he was unfairly punished for conduct the jury acquitted him of.
They’ve also made a more unusual argument, that some of the behavior at the center of the case, including the days-long sex parties known as “freak-offs,” should have been protected because Combs was acting as an amateur pornography producer.
The civil suits keep landing, and his attorneys are fighting them one by one while he waits out his sentence.
