Sean 'Diddy' Combs moves to dismiss Rodney Jones' sexual assault lawsuit against rapper

Sean "Diddy" Combs filed to have a pending sexual assault lawsuit dismissed Monday.

Combs' legal team asked the court to dismiss Rodney Jones' lawsuit against the rapper. The motion, filed in the Southern District of New York, accused Jones and his lawyer of filing the lawsuit with "blatant falsehoods" to "generate media hype" and "extract a settlement." 

His team claimed Jones' lawsuit was an attempt to "dress up a run-of-the-mill commercial disagreement as a salacious RICO conspiracy. Running to nearly 100 pages, it includes countless tall tales, shameless celebrity namedrops, and irrelevant images," according to the court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

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A lawyer for Combs denied Jones' allegations against the rapper.

"Mr. Jones’s lawsuit is pure fiction — a shameless attempt to create media hype and extract a quick settlement," Erica Wolff told Fox News Digital. "There was no RICO conspiracy and Mr. Jones was not threatened, groomed, assaulted, or trafficked. We look forward to proving — in a court of law — that all of Mr. Jones’s claims are made-up and must be dismissed."

Fox News Digital reached out to a representative for Jones for comment.

Diddy's team has filed motions to dismiss four other pending sexual assault lawsuits against the rapper in recent months.

The "I'll Be Missing You" singer's homes were raided by the federal government on March 25. The raids were connected to a federal human trafficking investigation, Fox News Digital confirmed at the time.

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Jones accused Diddy of sexually assaulting him and forcing him to perform sex acts with prostitutes in a lawsuit first filed in February.

Jones worked as a producer with Combs on the rapper's latest album, "The Love Album: Off the Grid." The music producer claimed he lived with the "I'll Be Missing You" singer for extended periods of time and accused Combs of unsolicited groping and sexual touching.

Jones, known professionally as Lil Rod, amended his complaint in March and accused Diddy of participating in a "sex trafficking venture."

His lawsuit asked for $30 million in damages.

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Jones also accused Cuba Gooding Jr. of "sexually harassing and assaulting" him in the lawsuit, obtained by Fox News Digital at the time. The "Surgical" producer claimed Gooding began "touching, groping, and fondling" him during a party on a yacht rented by Combs in the U.S. Virgin Islands in January 2023.

Representatives for Gooding did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment at the time.

"According to Mr. Jones, he was extremely uncomfortable and proceeded to lean away from Mr. Gooding Jr.," the court documents stated. "He rejected his advances and Mr. Gooding Jr. did not stop until Mr. Jones forcibly pushed him away."

"As the owner of the property, Mr. Combs had a duty to protect Mr. Jones from the harm he suffered at the hands of Cuba Gooding Jr," the lawsuit read. "Mr. Combs breached his duty when he failed to stop Cuba Gooding Jr. from sexually assaulting Mr. Jones."

Current polls actually should give Harris backers reason to worry about her chances: Dem strategist

Vice President Kamala Harris’ rise to the top of the Democratic ticket has generated momentum in the polls for the party, but some experts aren’t convinced by her new lead.

"If the polling errors are anywhere close to what they were in 2016 and 2020, then Trump is in the lead right now," Democrat strategist Julian Epstein told Fox News Digital.

The comments come as the Real Clear Politics polling average shows Harris with a slim 1.5 point lead over former President Trump nationally, a significant shift from the three-point lead Trump held over Biden the day before the president dropped out of the race.

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But the Harris lead is also a much smaller gap than Trump faced at the same time in 2016 and 2020, when the Republican nominee trailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by 6 points and Biden by 7.1.

While Trump won in 2016 and failed to win re-election in 2020, the former president greatly outperformed his polling numbers in two close elections, a fact that is not lost on Democrats heading into the stretch run of 2024.

According to a report from Politico last week, recent polls conducted by Democratic firms that show Harris in the lead also contain warning signs, including leads for Trump in characteristics more likely to sway voters. Harris is also essentially tied with Trump across the battleground states, the polls show, meaning the vice president is underperforming her national numbers in states set to decide the election.

"It’s still a very tough race, and that feels consistent with everything we know," said Margie Omero, a partner at the Democratic polling firm GBAO Strategies, told Politico.

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Democratic pollsters also fear the prospect of another polling error, even though several of the party’s top firms got together in an attempt to diagnose the problem after 2020.

"I spent a ton of time and analysis trying to dig into those problems. And I feel much better educated about those problems," Nick Gourevitch, a partner at Global Strategy Group who participated in the Democratic "polling autopsy," told Politico. "I don’t think there’s any pollster in America who can sit here and say… that they’re 100% sure that they fixed any issues in polling. I think that would be silly."

That reality is not lost on Democratic pollsters, who have urged caution despite Harris’ quick rise over the last several weeks.

"Every year, we’ve had different curveballs. This is a difficult industry," John Anzalone, the lead pollster on Biden’s 2020 campaign, told Politico. "Something’s gonna happen in 2024. You and I, right now, don’t know what that is."

Meanwhile, Epstein sees several reasons for Democrats to worry, pointing out that Harris is still "underperforming in the Rust Belt battleground by significant numbers" and "with working class voters and Black voters."

"The idea that Harris doesn’t have to specify policy or go before the news media is a strategy born of conceit and foolhardiness and will ultimately backfire," Epstein added.

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