Diddy on Trial: Jay-Z Sues Woman Who Alleged Rape
episodePreviously titled “Diddy on Trial - Breaking: Jay-Z sues woman who alleged rape” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 28, 2026
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What is the latest lawsuit filed against Jay-Z?
BBC Sounds. Music, radio, podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Diddy on Trial from BBC Sounds with me, Anushka Matanda-Doughty. Make sure you subscribe and turn on your push notifications so you never miss a thing. We're here every week to bring you the latest news about Sean Diddy Combs in the build-up to his federal trial in May. He's also facing civil lawsuits and it's been a busy week for those. We also have a whole bunch of listener questions to work through. Joining me today is our resident criminal defence attorney, Sean Kent. Hi, Sean. Hey, guys. How are you all doing? And Rolling Stone senior investigative reporter, Cheyenne Roundtree. Hi, Cheyenne. Morning. So this week, Cheyenne, you've been pretty busy covering the Oscars and Sean fighting many fires, no doubt. But it's been a relatively busy week for Diddy News in terms of new lawsuits being filed, one against his mum. Cheyenne, could you just talk us through what happened there?
Yeah, so the former co-founder of Bad Boy Records, Kirk Burrows, he filed a lawsuit early last week against Janice Combs, Diddy's mom. He claims back in the early 90s, Diddy walked into his office with a baseball bat, and the implication was that he was forced to sign over his 25% stake in Bad Boy Entertainment. But Janice was a beneficiary, so he filed a suit against her and some other companies associated with Diddy. that time. Kirk says that when this all happened, that Janice was fully aware of it, that she knew that he was being unjustly kind of forced out. But they played dumb throughout the years and decades that they knew known each other. And it was only recently in the past few years that he discovered that Janice was allegedly fully aware of what happened.
Is this the first lawsuit we've had filed against Janice?
I believe it is the first lawsuit that she's accused of being more wrapped up into Diddy's businesses than previously thought.
And Sean, you've spoken before about how suing Diddy at the moment in a civil lawsuit isn't going to do you much good because we've got to get through the federal proceedings first. But Janice Combs, could she sit for a deposition?
She could absolutely sit for a deposition. I think this is going to be a situation where this case doesn't go very far. Why? Because as Cheyenne just mentioned, this is a long time ago. This is a civil case. The statute of limitations, if I'm not mistaken, is six years on these types of situations. I think he tried to file suit against Diddy, if I read correctly, at least two different times for the same action. They were both thrown out based upon it was outside the statute of limitations. I think the same thing is going to happen on this situation because I don't do good math, but that's well outside the six-year window in which this case is being brought. And so they're being creative and trying to bring it outside the statute now.
Because they've said they began an investigation last year that brought these facts to light about Janice. Is that where they're getting creative?
That's why they're getting creative. We don't want someone to bring a lawsuit 10 and 20 years outside the scope. The biggest reason is people die, memories are fallible, evidence is lost. And so we want lawsuits to be brought as close or contemporaneous to the action as humanly possible. But the standard that they're relying upon is the new or should have known standard. And so what they're saying is we would not have known about this lawsuit until now. So the statute of limitations could not have run. The problem that they're missing is what I just said, new or should have known. So I guarantee the response will be through due diligence and a tad bit of investigation. They should have been able to find out way back in the day that his mom possibly had something to do with it. When we bring lawsuits in any time, and this is a great lesson, Anytime you've read a lawsuit, if you've noticed that there's like 60 people listed, you're like, why are they listing all of these people in the lawsuits? This is exactly why.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the latest lawsuit filed against Jay-Z?
0:01–4:57
2
Who is Janice Combs and why is she being sued?
4:57–5:52
3
What allegations are being made against Diddy by Sara Rivers?
5:52–9:10
4
How do recent lawsuits affect Diddy's legal standing?
9:10–10:57
5
What implications does the Gender Motivated Violence Act have?
10:57–15:59
6
How do jury selection processes work in high-profile cases?
15:59–27:41