{"id":345322,"date":"2026-06-03T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345322\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T20:14:07","slug":"diddy-sex-assault-cases-in-l-a-under-review-d-a-s-office-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/345322\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Diddy’ sex assault cases in L.A. under review, D.A.’s office says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Los Angeles County prosecutors are reviewing two separate sex assault cases against Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, officials confirmed Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department and the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department presented two separate cases, both related to the same victim, to prosecutors in September 2025, according to a statement from the office.<\/p>\n

A spokesman for the district attorney\u2019s office declined to say when the alleged incidents occurred or explain why it has taken nearly nine months to make a charging decision. <\/p>\n

Combs \u2014 who rose to fame as a hip-hop mogul in the 1990s as the face of Bad Boy Records \u2014 has gone through a years-long public downfall following myriad allegations of domestic violence and sex abuse. Last July, a New York jury convicted him<\/a> of transporting prostitutes across state lines for drug-fueled bacchanals referred to as \u201cfreak offs.\u201d <\/p>\n

He was sentenced to four years in federal prison and remains incarcerated at a minimum-security prison in New Jersey. <\/p>\n

Combs\u2019 reputation and business began to publicly unravel in 2023 after federal authorities raided his homes, and a leaked video showed him beating his ex-girlfriend, Casandra \u201cCassie\u201d Ventura, at a Los Angeles hotel. <\/p>\n

Representatives for the LAPD and Sheriff\u2019s Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment Wednesday. TMZ first reported <\/a>on the D.A.\u2019s office\u2019s decision to review the L.A. cases. A spokesman for Combs declined to comment.<\/p>\n

Last November, The Times reported<\/a> that the Sheriff\u2019s Department was investigating Combs for an alleged sex assault that happened in East L.A. While the Sheriff\u2019s Department did not identify the victim, Florida-based music producer Jonathan Hay told several media outlets in 2025 that he was the \u201cJohn Doe\u201d from a civil lawsuit filed last July that accused Combs of sex assault in 2020 and 2021. Hay first reported the assaults to police in Largo, Fla., he has said.<\/p>\n

In the lawsuit, Hay alleged Combs assaulted him while the two were working on remixes of songs by rap legend Notorious B.I.G., also known as Christopher Wallace, who was killed in Los Angeles in 1997. According to the suit, Hay, Combs and others were at a Los Angeles warehouse that stored some of Wallace\u2019s possessions in 2020 when Combs \u201cprovided drugs to everyone present\u201d and subsequently began masturbating in front of Hay.<\/p>\n

Combs \u201cstarted watching porn on his cell phone, grabbed one of Biggie\u2019s shirts off a rack, and began to masturbate with it in front of the plaintiff,\u201d the suit alleges. In a separate incident in March 2021, Hay alleged Combs forced him to perform oral sex, according to the suit.<\/p>\n

Combs\u2019 civil attorney Jonathan Davis has previously denied Hay\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me make it absolutely clear, Mr. Combs categorically denies as false and defamatory all claims that he sexually abused anyone,\u201d Davis said in a statement last year. \u201cHe looks forward to vindicating himself in court, where such matters are decided \u2014 and not in the media \u2014 based on admissible, material evidence, not rank speculation and unsubstantiated allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Times staff writer Richard Winton contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles County prosecutors are reviewing two separate sex assault cases against Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs, officials confirmed Wednesday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[35639,35633,35630,6848,6246,35276,35631,48,52,51,110965,47,50,49,63,346,35637,140326,2637,11469,316],"class_list":["post-345322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-christopher-wallace","tag-comb","tag-combs","tag-decision","tag-department","tag-diddy","tag-hay","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-july","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-office","tag-sean","tag-sex-assault-case","tag-sheriff","tag-suit","tag-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}