Celeb names have been added to one of the Diddy civil lawsuits in explicit allegations over 87 pages. It names celebrity co-defendants, new complainants, alleged trafficking over state lines, has a separate Michael Jackson element, and accuses Diddy of racketeering with conspiracy.Diddy denies all allegations against him. His team says no sane person reading this complaint could credit this story and they're already suing the lawyer who filed this for $50m over comments she made to the media on a separate case.Criminal defence attorney Shaun Kent analyses the lawsuit with Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty. Plus historian Christian Cippolini explains the origins of the racketeering with conspiracy charge - known as RICO.The Diddy on Trial podcast is here to investigate the rumours, confront the theories, and give you the answers that you need.We also want YOU to be part of the conversation. Have you any burning questions about the cases or the upcoming trial? Heard a theory that doesn’t sit right with you? Get in touch now via WhatsApp: 0330 123 555 1.Presenter: Anoushka Mutanda-Dougherty Series Producer: Laura Jones Sound Design: Craig Boardman Production Coordinator: Hattie Valentine Editor: Clare FordhamCommissioning Editor: Rhian Roberts Assistant Commissioner: Will Drysdale Commissioning Producer: Adam Eland Commissioning Assistant Producer: Rechmial MillerSean ‘Diddy’ Combs - who has also gone by the names Puffy, Puff Daddy, P Diddy, Love, and Brother Love - emerged into the hip-hop scene in the 1990s. He founded Bad Boy Records, which launched the careers of the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J Blige.His current legal issues began when he was sued by his ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura, also known as Cassie, in late 2023. She accused him of violently abusing and raping her. That lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount a day after it was filed, with Mr Combs maintaining his innocence.His controversial history with Ms Ventura resurfaced in 2024, when CCTV footage emerged showing Mr Combs kicking his former girlfriend as she lay on a hotel hallway floor in 2016.Multiple people have filed lawsuits accusing Mr Combs of sexual assault, with accusations dating back to 1991. He denies all claims.He is accused of the federal charges of kidnapping, drugging and coercing women into sexual activities, sometimes by using firearms or threatening them with violence. He denies the charges.
Chapter 1: What are the explicit allegations in Diddy's lawsuit?
So when it comes to those figures, we're not naming them as we don't have a way of reflecting their side of the story. This is an amended lawsuit. So, Sean, that means one was filed first and now they've made changes to it, right?
Correct. So that means the original lawsuit was filed on October 15th, 2024. And then on February 6th, 2025, asked the court permission to amend. And in their February 6th filing, they said, we have done more investigation and we need to add stuff to our complaint to make it more accurate.
So they've said that they've got new information and they refile. You might remember this lawsuit if you've been listening to the pod for a while. It's filed by Ariel Mitchell-Kidd. So she's a lawyer who's being sued by Diddy currently in another case for defamation. And it's Ashley Parham's lawsuit. So when this was originally filed, there were other co-conspirators.
Some were named and some were included as Jane and John Doe's. It alleged that on March 23rd, 2018, Ashley was gang raped and assaulted by Diddy and others. It's now been refiled to name co-defendants, add more claimants and a lot more detail, a whole sort of second half of this lawsuit. I'm going to run through a few of the new additions. So...
On page 17 of the lawsuit, it alleges that internet personality Drewski doused plaintiff with more oil and lubricant and then jumped on top of plaintiff's body, treating it like a slip and slide. It then goes on to claim that Drewski begins vaginally raping plaintiff. Now, we've heard this allegation before. I remember the slip and slide bit.
Sean, the use of language there and just the way that's phrased, is that normal? It just feels a bit odd.
It is, and trust me, I've looked at a lot of lawsuits. 87 pages is... insane. It just is. It's a very lengthy lawsuit. That's how they chose to file their lawsuit. But the language is oddly specific and you usually don't see that. And it's not necessary. It's just additional for sensationalism. What does it help prove or not prove? So, no, I'm not used to seeing stuff like that in the lawsuit.
Druski has responded publicly. We haven't heard back from him in the request we sent, but he said online, this allegation is a fabricated lie. I wasn't a public figure in In 2018, I was broke living with my mum without any connections to the entertainment industry at the time of this allegation, so the inclusion of my name is truly outlandish.
My heart breaks for actual victims of abuse, but I'm fully confident that the evidence will expose this falsehood and the individuals who are maliciously trying to game the legal system to peddle false evidence. allegations. He's not the only celebrity name that's mentioned.
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Chapter 2: Who are the co-defendants named in the lawsuit?
Now, we asked him for a statement and he hasn't responded to us, but he has put one out publicly saying, I have been informed of the allegations about me in a suit in California. I really can't believe that my name is mentioned in that matter. There is absolutely no truth to those allegations. I do not know and have never met the person that filed the suit.
I was not anywhere near Orinda, California at that time. In fact, I don't think I've ever been to Orinda, California. I have never done anything like that and I would never do anything like that to anyone myself. I'm confident that these ridiculous claims against me will be dismissed.
Now, people are saying that it sounds like Drewski and OBJ were kind of blindsided by the lawsuit and the first they saw of it was on social media. So are we to assume that they haven't been made aware of it before it was filed?
Normally, like I would be guessing, but in this situation, I agree that they would have been blindsided. Then if you look at the online filings, our federal system requires everything to be filed specifically online. There's nowhere in the federal filings that show that either of these two individuals have been served or given a copy of the actual lawsuit or answered the actual lawsuit.
So I'm assuming they found out when everybody else found out, which is crazy if you think about it.
The amended lawsuit continues in a similar way to the original lawsuit filed in October. However, there is a difference. So it alleges after Ashley Parham has experienced sexual abuse, sexual assault and gang rape, she manages to escape, goes to a neighbor's house and then a police officer turns up who she believes is with the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department.
But now in the new filed version, she says she knows this person to be one of the co-defendants that they've added on called John Pelletier. Now, he is an actual police officer, but was not with Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department. So he was posing as someone from the lawsuit alleges.
offered her no assistance and basically told her to go home after she says, you know, I've been brutally raped by Didi and a bunch of other people. John Pelletier is a police officer and is now the current chief of Maui Police in Hawaii. The police department sent this response on his behalf. Chief Pelletier has no connection whatsoever to any individuals named in the lawsuit.
The allegations suggesting his involvement are entirely unfounded. We are confident that the evidence will demonstrate these claims to be false and will expose those who are deliberately trying to manipulate the legal system to spread misleading narratives. In 2018, while serving as a captain in Las Vegas...
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Chapter 3: What is the significance of the RICO charge?
Michael Jackson, for sexual assault as a minor. So they're in the industry or they're connected to the industry. So that's put in there as context, background for who this Jane and John Doe are. They claim to have been trafficked by Pelletier and other co-defendants on the lawsuit from Vegas to California, passing through a series of what they term safe houses.
And on page 31 of the lawsuit it says, quote, it was apparent to plaintiffs this was a professional operation syndicate. They talk about seeing a list of houses or locations that they believe were safe houses that they could be moved to. So like you say, this turns it into something else because this is crossing state lines talking about places they could be moved to.
They are held at gunpoint, they claim, they allege, put into the back of SUVs and moved around the country. That's a huge allegation.
It is huge, and I'm glad you brought it up because people do get confused because the civil allegation in here is similar to the federal criminal allegations against Diddy. It's the same one as RICO, and people get confused at, wait, what do you mean you can have a RICO civil charge and a RICO criminal charge? But that's exactly what they've alleged.
Using this corrupt organization to cover up the allegations, cover up Diddy's actions, that he is the leader of this RICO organization, and these two... Jane and John Doe's are saying that this organization is created to be the cover up this cavalcade of indiscretions that Diddy is doing. And that's the whole point of this organization. And that's the lawsuit. So it's wild if you think about it.
Yeah. And I mean, Rico is coming up left, right and center. Later on in the program, we're talking to a crime historian who does the history of how it started with the mob and what was going on. It was almost like tailor-made to take down the mob. And now we're seeing it levelled against Diddy. And what is described here in the second part of the lawsuit is a cover-up.
They talk about going to these houses and sort of it being strange that when they're screaming for help, neighbours weren't coming outside and people weren't getting involved. The neighbours come out and they hear gunshots and then they don't call the police. So they're trafficked, they claim, alleged by multiple different people.
on their journey to their final destination, one of the people who was trafficking them, they recognize because, quote, this person had also filed a lawsuit against superstar singer Michael Jackson in 2005 and filed a creditors claim against the Jackson estate upon his untimely demise in 2009. Jane and John Doe, the mother and son, have filed a lawsuit against Jackson.
Now they're claiming that one of the people who's trafficking them across state lines has also filed another lawsuit against Michael Jackson. They then claim that they eventually end up in the location where Ashley Parham, our original plaintiff, claims she was being assaulted. They claim to have witnessed the assault.
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Chapter 4: How do the historical origins of RICO relate to this case?
So they can go through and admit each line of the paragraph. They can say, I admit that Drewski was there. They can admit it. They can deny it. Or they can say, we have no knowledge. That's it. It's admit, deny, without knowledge. So you don't have to explain. So that's why a lot of this lawsuit doesn't make any sense.
So when Diddy is answering this lawsuit, a lot of it's going to be deny it or without knowledge. Deny or without knowledge. I don't know if he sued Michael Jackson without knowledge. So it's a weird lawsuit.
One last detail from the lawsuit. It says that the mother, Jane Doe, was forced to sign documents while her son's being taken elsewhere and allegedly forced to participate in the rape of Miss Parham. The mother, Jane Doe, was forced to sign documents that, quote, plaintiff believes the documents were related to creditors' claims plaintiffs had against the Michael Jackson estate.
So it sort of aims to tie up the narrative of why they would have been trafficked from Las Vegas to this location to sign these documents about Michael Jackson and potentially frame the son during this alleged sexual assault of this woman, Ashley Parham. However, it leaves a lot of unanswered questions like what is the creditor claim?
What does it have to do with the Jane and John Doe claims against Michael Jackson? Were the specifics of the suits against Michael Jackson? So they'll definitely get a lot of... Questions left hanging in the air when it comes to the Michael Jackson element of this lawsuit. And there's a lot of moving parts and a lot of different people.
And we asked Diddy's team about this and they addressed pretty much all of it. They said this new complaint brought by an attorney has already been sued for defaming Mr. Combs. So we told you about that's a 50 million lawsuit against the attorney who filed this to do with Courtney Burgess and claiming to have seen him. Freak off tapes with minors on News Nation.
They go on to say this demonstrates the depraved lengths plaintiffs will travel to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday. Mr. Combs was nowhere near Orinda, California on the day Ms. Parham claimed she was assaulted there and the Contra Costa Sheriff's Department has already confirmed Ms. Parham's claims were determined to be unfounded charges. Thank you.
who was purportedly kidnapped across state lines and forced to, quote, sign paperwork at gunpoint, close quote, while shepherded through a web of safe houses. No sane person reading this complaint can credit this story. Mr Combs looks forward to having his day in court where these lies and the perverse motives of those who told them will be revealed. And has this actually been given to Diddy?
Has he been served?
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Chapter 5: What are the claims regarding trafficking across state lines?
And it's hard to serve somebody who's in the Department of Corrections. It's really hard because you can't get to him. You just can't go in there and talk to Diddy and say, hey, man, I want to go see Diddy and see what he's doing. Can I give him some paperwork? It's harder than people think.
Sean, thank you so much for this today. And thank you for reading through an 87-page lawsuit. But yeah, I really appreciate this. And thank you for breaking it down for us. We'll see you very soon. No problem. You have a wonderful day. Thank you for having me. Now, it seems like everybody is talking about RICO charges when it comes to the upcoming Diddy case.
He's been accused of RICO on the federal side, and now we've just heard a civil lawsuit that accuses him of RICO there. Joining me now is crime historian Christian Cipollini, who is going to tell us how this charge came to be and how it was used to tackle the mob. Hi, Christian.
Hi, Anoushka. Thanks for having me.
So before we understand the genesis of RICO, we need to look at what the United States was like before that. And they was facing a particular problem with the mob and mafia. How big of an issue was that?
It was a big enough issue in the 20th century that by the 1950s, the United States Senate decided to have some hearings into related racketeering, antitrust kind of things. The problem was you had law enforcement agencies like the predecessor to the DEA
The Bureau of Narcotics was aware of organized crime, Italian, Jewish, etc., whereas the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, was sort of in denial until the late 1950s, 1960s. When you have this disjointed kind of federal legal issue dealing with something that most people knew was the elephant in the room, the mob does exist. But what the mob did in the United States, particularly from –
1920s through the 1960s is they ran everything that was illegitimate and a lot of legitimate businesses so yes you have gambling prostitution narcotics but then they also had up until you know really the 1980s early 90s control of legitimate businesses like garbage disposal was a big one construction businesses And where was the epicenter of this large network?
New York City, where the five families, as they were dubbed, the five main mafia families. But the mob was so big and extensive. You had the groups that ran the show, and then you had associates spread all over the place. Everybody knew there was a mobster on every other corner, if you wanted to call them that, and they had influence economically and socially.
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Chapter 6: What responses have the accused celebrities provided?
So if it's such a widespread, well, accepted, like you say, almost part of the fabric of the country itself, was there official complicity then in some of the ongoings on?
This is fact. You cannot operate on a multi-million dollar level, talking about, you know, decades ago, and that would be billions if they were doing it. You cannot successfully operate at that level unless you have people in your pocket that are in politics or high up in business organizations on the legitimate end. So yes, it's not a conspiracy.
I mean, it is conspiracy, but not conspiracy theory. You cannot operate on that level unless you have that. Gangsters are opportunists. An opportunity arises. Take a prohibition in the United States. They took away alcohol. They swooped in, and it was the same with narcotics. There's some denial that the mafia didn't deal drugs in the United States. I can assure you, yes, they did.
It followed right in the footsteps of alcohol prohibition. They fell around the same time. But yes, prostitution, gambling, extortion, loan sharking, basically charging high interest to give a loan to somebody that can't get it from the bank. So what happens though when you become an organization large that conducts most of its business in the shadows?
You can't call the police if something happens. You have to police yourself. So what does that create? Murder and mayhem. Hence the dark, bloody side of the mob in America. How do you police your own organization? By violence, essentially.
So then when you're talking about, when we think about RICO, it was an answer to the inability to get the people at the top. Why was it difficult to take down the bosses if you know who the fine families are, if you know who the mobsters are?
That's a great way you pointed that out, because the federal government wasn't inept. They understood, at least certain departments were well aware that some people are in charge and some are the minions. But the problem is insulation. Setting up any kind of an organization, you insulate your CEOs, your CFO from potential lawsuits in legitimate business.
from danger that's what the mob did when you made it through the ranks in the hierarchy you were afforded certain protections other people were going to take the fall for you it's almost like if you signed up for this job you were a street level soldier and to your point the government was having a very difficult time getting the guys they knew were calling the shots down the hierarchy
I'm assuming then there's a pretty strong code of like, if you get caught, you don't snitch because then something will happen to you.
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Chapter 7: What unanswered questions remain in the lawsuit?
Okay, the mafia exists, the mob's a real thing, we've got some turncoats that showed us what it works like. How do we get the guy who committed the crime, the guy in the middle, and the guy who made the call? That was it.
But when they created Recode, isn't it right that they didn't immediately use it to its fullest potential?
Sure, when Recode was instated, it in and of itself is a super complex kind of law. Not everybody understood it. I'm not sure the government knew exactly how to use Ricoh. Until early mid-1980s, they tried again. And it really was about getting the mob. So everybody knows. The reason they even started this is to go after the mob and any groups sort of like that. In theory.
In theory. Who changes the game? Who gets it going?
Well, somebody probably everybody's heard of by this point was Rudolph Giuliani was the one when he stepped into the role of state attorney in New York in the early 1980s. He decided to wage a war against organized crime. He had money. He had a presence and a voice and he used it to apply Rico to go after the five families, the bosses and everybody underneath that they could.
And what did the first sort of success with Rico look like?
Putting away some or all of the bosses, and to an extent, after Rudy Giuliani's 1985 assault, yes, the ones that were known. It should be noted, though, that the mob is not dumb either. And they had not even a lame duck boss, but sort of like the facade, the de facto, oh, yeah, that guy's our boss. But really, the boss is somewhere else or already in prison. So it wasn't this perfect thing.
Rico applied. Everybody goes to jail. It didn't quite work out like that.
But it did significantly weaken the mob power structure by the 90s.
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Chapter 8: What is Diddy's legal team's stance on these allegations?
You already had the Mexican and Colombian narco dealers. You had Eastern European groups already in New York. You had the African-American. You had the Latino-American. There were a lot of groups already here. So yeah, there's always somebody.
But those laws can then be applied to those new power structures that step in. Now people have figured out how to use them. Because the thing that I think is quite confusing is we say, oh, Rico was the charge that took down the mob. And that's, it's Genesis. But a lot of people now, casual observers, they say, well, I know Rico because I hear it in a lot of rap songs.
Or I saw the ASAP Rocky trial. Or I saw that rapper or this group. But really what you've explained there is an evolution of Well, like smaller, almost groups defined by ethnicity filled up this massive gap that were organized crime groups. And that's where you get things like the Bloods and the Crips. And then maybe from that, you see how it links to modern day hip hop culture.
It's just an interesting evolution that they're all modeled on the mob or they're all following that same power structure.
You know what? It's almost like there's a curtain up or tunnel vision when the government is going after a group. For years it was it's the mob, particularly the Italians. We're going after them. You kind of lose sight of the other groups that are just building and evolving. So by the time you had the rap era. kicked off, you know, into the public persona by the mid 1980s.
But there was a real thing with ethnic cultural groups developing behind the scenes.
Thank you so much for this, because I mean, it's just I could sit here and listen to you all day. That's absolutely fascinating. And we really appreciate you coming on the program.
Oh, thank you. I appreciate it.
That was Christian Cipollini, crime historian and author. And finally, before we go, last week we got a small insight into life for Diddy in jail. Sam Bankman-Fried spoke on Tucker Carlson's show in the US from the Metropolitan Detention Centre, where Diddy is also being held. Bankman-Fried is serving 25 years for defrauding users of his cryptocurrency in exchange. This is his insight.
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