Detained rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, already facing more than 30 civil complaints alongside federal racketeering conspiracy charges, has been hit with a claim from a former “personal lackey” who claims he was forced to clean up after Comb’s “Wild King Nights” parties were finished.
Attorneys for Phillip Pines claim in a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles on Monday that between December 2019 to December 2021, Combs pressured Pines into having sex with a woman and orchestrated parties where he engaged in sex, drugs and alcohol.
Pines, who says he was given the title of senior executive assistant, was allegedly asked to set-up for Combs’ so-called “Wild King Nights”, according to the claim which was obtained by Variety.
He also claims that Combs knowingly exposed a celebrity guest to Covid-19 at his 51st birthday party, and details a disturbing incident where Combs pressured him to engage in sex with a female guest. There are also allegations he witnessed Combs violently kicking a guest in Miami.
Pines’ duties, he claims, included arranging for drugs, alcohol, and sex-related paraphernalia to be brought in and clean up after the parties concluded, including removing drug evidence and bodily stains from rooms, deleting any compromising videos from Combs’ devices, and ensuring that no one spoke about the nights.
Pines claims that he was asked on multiple occasions to set up rooms for Combs’ parties, providing “red lights, ice buckets, alcohol, marijuana joints, honey packs for male libido, baby oil, astro glide, towels, illegal drugs and power banger sex machines”.
Pines also alleges that Combs would test his loyalty, including asking him to return to work to find the TV remote, and that his party clean-up duties were assigned to avoid additional hotel cleaning fees.
Combs, who was arrested in September on racketeering and sex trafficking charges, is currently detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York after being denied bail on three separate occasions.
At his most recent bail hearing in November, trial judge Arun Subramanian cited evidence showing Combs to be a “serious risk” of witness tampering and proof he has tried to hide prohibited communications with third parties while incarcerated for the bail denial.
“There is compelling evidence of Combs’s propensity for violence,” Subramanian wrote in a five-page order. Earlier this month, Combs’ attorneys withdrew the bail appeal for their client.
In a statement to Variety on the latest civil claim, Combs’ representatives said: “No matter how many lawsuits are filed, it won’t change the fact that Mr Combs has never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone – man or woman, adult or minor. We live in a world where anyone can file a lawsuit for any reason. Fortunately, a fair and impartial judicial process exists to find the truth, and Mr Combs is confident he will prevail in court.”
