The L.A. County District Attorney's Office confirmed that it is actively reviewing new sexual assault allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs, raising the possibility of criminal charges on top of his existing federal conviction.
The accuser is publicist Jonathan Hay, who filed a police report last September in his hometown of Largo, Florida. Hay alleges that Diddy sexually battered him on two separate occasions — once in 2020 and again in 2021.
Because the alleged incidents took place in Los Angeles, the report was transferred to L.A. authorities.
Hay's account, as detailed in the report, centers on sessions he was holding with CJ Wallace, son of the late Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace, to work on a remix project. He alleges Combs appeared during those sessions and committed the assaults.
In the first incident, Hay claimed that Diddy masturbated into one of the Notorious B.I.G.’s shirts before telling the producer to “come finish him off” before ejaculating and throwing the shirt at him.
In the second incident, Hay claimed that he ended up with Diddy inside a room when he called Hay a “snitch” and forcefully put his penis in the producer’s mouth.
Both the LAPD and the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department conducted separate investigations, and each brought its findings to the District Attorney's Office in the fall. DA spokesperson Venusse Dunn confirmed the office's involvement on June 2. "We are reviewing the case," Dunn said.
Hay responded to the development in a statement. "Standing as a survivor of the actions involving Sean Diddy Combs and Christopher CJ Wallace, I view the validation of my accounts by the LAPD and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office as a critical juncture," he said. "This development represents a substantial advancement in my pursuit of complete accountability. Justice is prevailing."
Hay’s claims come after Wallace won a default judgment in a defamation lawsuit against him last year. In his suit, Wallace claimed that Hay gave interviews where he alleged, among other things, that the producer was set up to be sexually assaulted by Diddy.
Diddy is currently serving a 50-month federal sentence at the low-security Federal Correctional Institution Fort Dix in New Jersey, following a conviction on charges that he transported a girlfriend and another woman across state lines for prostitution. Jurors acquitted him on racketeering conspiracy and two sex trafficking counts. He is currently appealing his federal conviction.
