Diddy’s Ex-Bodyguard Denies Rape Claims In Emotional Interview
Diddy‘s one-time bodyguard Joseph ‘Big Joe’ Sherman was named in a current sexual assault lawsuit filed towards the embattled mogul, however he’s assured that his innocence will probably be confirmed.
A lady named Thalia Graves filed the criticism in a New York federal court docket late final month, alleging that again in 2001, she was courting somebody who labored at Bad Boy, and Diddy referred to as her to arrange a gathering, underneath the guise of needing to speak to her about her associate’s “performance issues” at work.
The go well with recounts her alleged subsequent rape by each Diddy and his then-bodyguard Joseph Sherman.
But in a brand new interview with NBC New York, Joe has denied ever having met the lady , not to mention participate in what she’s alleging.
“It’s a lie on me,” he stated. “I don’t know this lady from anywhere. […] I am not questioning her integrity. I am just questioning her claims against me. You got the wrong man. I wasn’t even in the same room with you. I have never seen you. I wasn’t even in New York that I recall at the time.”
According to Joe, he did do safety for Diddy and Bad Boy Records within the 90s, however was not with the corporate on the time she alleges the incident occurred in 2001.
“Her and whoever she’s in cahoots with was orchestrating a money grab. And she wanted me to be part of that money grab…She wanted to get Diddy,” he added.
Check out a clip from the interview beneath.
“It’s a lie on me!”
Diddy’s ex-bodyguard, Joseph Sherman (Big Joe), pleads for his innocence in an emotional interview and calls Thalia Graves’ lawsuit a cash seize.
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He additionally supplied texts and DMs that had been confirmed by NBC, exhibiting that the lady had reached out in November 2023 trying to get him to be a witness.
One textual content requested him to name a quantity and stated: “If you will be my witness against Diddy, then my attorneys will leave you out of any proceedings because we have statements that you physically showed over eight people videos of me and you to people in the studio.”
“I am nothing but a scapegoat for this BS because I wouldn’t lie on Puffy — Sean Combs,” he concluded.
Joe and his crew plan to counter-sue for defamation.
In the unique lawsuit, the lady alleged:
“Following the assault and multiple times over the years, both Combs and Sherman contacted Plaintiff and warned her to be silent, threatening repercussions including Plaintiff potentially losing custody of her son if she ever disclosed the assault.”
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Then, in November 2023, the go well with says that Graves’ former boyfriend revealed to her that Diddy and Sherman had proven him a video of the assault — and alleges that the 2 had a behavior of doing this and promoting the ensuing movies.
“A Bad Boy artist later corroborated in a text message that Sherman ‘use[d] to sell porn of him doing this to chix’ and that Sherman ‘did that to a lot of women,’ the complaint reads.
“Combs and Sherman…had shown the video [of Graves’ assault] to multiple men, seeking to publicly degrade and humiliate both Plaintiff and her boyfriend.”
Attorney Gloria Allred is representing Graves.
