A Diddy accuser who heavily name-dropped celebrities, including Beyonce and Jay-Z, in a lawsuit, insisting they had witnessed a “freak off” party in 2015 has gone back on his explosive claims.
Joseph Manzaro had accused Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs of sexual assault in a new lawsuit that also stated that he was paraded around the disgraced rapper’s home where he was forced to wear a penis mask. The initial claims of the lawsuit emerged earlier this month, as the man claimed to have come across high-profile attendees at the alleged party.
Insisting that he was drugged and taken to a home owned by Gloria and Emilio Estefan on Star Island in Miami for Diddy’s son Christian ‘King’ Combs’ birthday in April 2015, Manzaro sued Diddy, Emilio, former porn star Adria English and others for damages. His suit additionally mentioned then-close friends of the ‘Bad Boy for Life’ – Jay-Z, Beyonce and LeBron James – as unmissable attendees at the party. But even originally, the Carters and the basketball star were not being sued.
Accuser erases mentions of Beyonce, Jay-Z in Diddy lawsuit
According to an amended lawsuit TMZ has brought to light, Manzaro has removed the Carters from the formal filing. New documents associated with the Diddy allegations see the accuser backtracking on his initial mentions of the star couple despite him arguing that they saw him being paraded around in a sexually explicit mask. “Why is this half-naked white man with c**k mask standing here in front of me?” the lawsuit stated Beyonce’s alleged response to seeing Joseph at the Diddy freak-off party.
Shortly after the preliminary reports in connection with the suit made news, Jay-Z’s attorney Alex Spiro vehemently questioned the credibility of the allegations, saying that the Roc-A-Fella founder wasn’t even in Florida at the time. He said the same for Queen Bey’s unavailability near Miami at the time of the alleged incident.
Jay-Z’s lawyer denied allegations
Tossing the lawsuit’s claims aside as an attention-grabbing tactic, he told TMZ, “Mr Carter wasn’t in Florida at that time to witness this incident – he was engaged in easily findable public activities that prove he was not at this event. This is more nonsense that erodes the trust in our “justice” system.”
NBA icon LeBron James’ spokesperson also denied him being in Miami, saying, “This is demonstrably false and doesn’t even merit a report or response. A basic internet search shows what LeBron was doing all of April 2015. He was playing basketball for the Cleveland Cavaliers and never in Miami.” Nevertheless, no such quiet legal update has cleared him of the claims as of now.
This legal amendment marks a second victory for Jay-Z who was previously also dragged into Diddy accusations. An anonymous accuser who said that the former frequent music collaborators drugged and raped her during a VMAs afterparty in 2000 dismissed her lawsuit last month. Back then, the “Empire State of Mind” hit-maker slammed the case as a “money-grab.”
Recent Diddy trial updates
On the flip side, Diddy will go to trial on May 5 for sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution. This month, two additional charges were included in the rapper’s federal indictment. Currently jailed in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre, Combs has also been formally accused of using force, fraud or coercion to compel a woman (identified as Victim-2) to engage in commercial sex acts from at least 2021 to 2024.
Other recent updates in his case state that his former girlfriend Cassie, who accused Diddy of repeated physical assault among other claims and has been identified as “Victim-1”, is prepared to testify under her own name. The Revolt founder’s legal team has also witnessed a shake-up as star attorney Mark Geragos will soon assume a major role in his defence team. The lawyer’s star-studded client list over the years has included Hunter Biden, the Menendez Brothers, Michael Jackson, Chris Brown and Roger Clinton, to name a few, as per Page Six.