Producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones Calls Diddy a ‘Monster’ Following Dismissal Filing
Musician and producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, who’s accused Diddy of sexual assault and trafficking, believes that the 3-time Grammy winner is a “monster” and wants the public to know.
On Monday (August 26), the Bad Boy Records founder filed a motion to have Jones’ lawsuit dismissed, accusing him of attempted extortion. Standing by his claims, Jones spoke to Rolling Stone in an article published on Tuesday (Aug. 27).
In the article, Jones recalled that while working on Diddy’s latest project, The Love Album, he began feeling uncomfortable at the mogul’s Miami home, where guests were hosted during Thanksgiving Day 2022. Jones started a professional relationship with Diddy in September of that year. While praying over the meal, Jones alleges that guests were “saying very little” and assumed they were under NDAs.
After leaving the dinner to go to a studio elsewhere in the home, Jones claims that Diddy and Yung Miami followed, with assistants “lighting candles” and “giving us cocktails.” Jones, who was at the event with A&R executive DeForrest Taylor, alleges that Diddy began pressuring him to try a substance in a studio-adjacent bathroom.
“He was asking me to do something I’ve never done before. It was awkward,” Jones said. “He was trying to get me to do some drugs. I don’t want to judge anybody, but that’s at the top of my list of things I’m afraid to do.”
Jones’ allegations became more intense, calling Diddy a “monster” because “he’ll do whatever is necessary to get exactly what he wants.”
He continued, “He doesn’t take no for an answer. He [told me] himself, ‘I’ll smack my mama.’ Anybody who can say that even jokingly is a monster. He’s nothing to be played with.
Jones, who’s also worked with the likes of T-Pain and Jack Harlow, didn’t reveal where he’s currently living due to “safety reasons.” He also claimed to need security and that he’s been blackballed from the music industry.
“I got threats. I’ve never had so much hitting me at once,” Jones said. “Diddy has a lot of people on his payroll in a lot of different positions. He’s very connected. It’s made me nervous traveling.”
Regularly being in disguise and having three therapists, Jones warned fans against supporting Diddy.
“They don’t want to see him fall because they’re living vicariously through him. They have to understand Puffy is no god. He’s nothing more than a shrewd, crooked businessman,” he said. “He’s stolen publishing for years. He’s nothing but a thief. He has no soul. He lives off other people’s gifts and talents. It’s not a human way to live.”
But in his dismissal filing, Diddy’s lawyers claimed that Jones’ lawsuit is “his third attempt to dress up a run of the mill commercial disagreement as a salacious RICO conspiracy.” The document added that Jones’ “meaningless allegations and blatant falsehoods” were framed to “generate media hype and exploit it to extract a settlement.”
“Running to nearly 100 pages, it includes countless tall tales, shameless celebrity namedrops, and irrelevant images,” Combs’ lawyers wrote. “Yet, despite all its hyperbole and lurid theatrics, the [complaint] fails to state a single viable claim against any of the Combs defendants.”
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