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By Elizabeth Wagmeister, NCS
LOS ANGELES (NCS) — In March 2023 – eight months earlier than Cassie Ventura filed the bombshell lawsuit in opposition to her ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs that will ignite his public downfall and in the end lead to his criminal conviction – one other accuser was considering coming forward.
Music producer and publicist Jonathan Hay had contacted a civil legal professional in the spring of 2023 to talk about his claims of being sexually battered by Combs. After talking with the legal professional’s workplace, Hay obtained chilly ft, fearful of standing up in opposition to a determine as highly effective as Combs. He was, he stated, “terrified.”
NCS has reviewed e-mail correspondence displaying Hay reached out to the civil legal professional’s workplace in March 2023.
“I was like, I can’t do this,” Hay stated of his first try to come forward with his claims in opposition to Combs in early 2023. “I’m just not ready.”
Hay lastly filed his claims in opposition to Combs – then as a “John Doe” – in July 2025, shortly after Combs was convicted by a New York jury on two federal prostitution-related counts that will lead to him being sentenced to greater than 4 years.
Once Ventura filed her lawsuit and dozens of different civil accusers got here forward with lawsuits, he felt inspired to inform his story. Hay stated that he’d by no means thought of that there may have been others who had allegedly been abused by Combs.
Combs denies all accusations in opposition to him. Roughly 70 accusers have introduced civil lawsuits, some of which have been dismissed.
“Once Cassie’s lawsuit came out,” Hay stated, “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, here we go. And then once the raids happened, I was like holy crap. That’s when I was like, ‘Okay, now is my time. Finally, I just decided that, alright, I’m going to go forward with this.”
“I just wanted someone to listen,” he stated.
Now, Hay’s claims are at the center of a new investigation, launched this week by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
A spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Department confirmed that their Special Victims Bureau is investigating Hay’s claims after receiving a copy of his police report, first documented in September 2025 by police in Largo, Florida, the place Hay resides.
In the police report, Hay says he suffered from sexual battery by Combs in 2020, after which once more in 2021, when he was engaged on a remix of Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace’s music as a tribute venture, honoring one of Combs’ closest collaborators. Hay labored on the new music with the rapper’s son, CJ Wallace.
In the 2020 incident, Hay stated he was working at a photoshoot when he discovered himself in the similar room as Combs, who started to masturbate into one of Biggie’s shirts. The police report particulars that Combs “removed the shirt to uncover his penis and told Hay to come finish him off.” The report states that Hay instructed police he was in shock and “stated that Combs then finished himself off and ejaculated on one of Notorious B.I.G. shirts” after which threw the shirt on Hay, “simultaneously saying, ‘Rest in peace BIG.’”
In 2021, Hay instructed police that Combs pressured him to carry out oral intercourse on him, which he stated made him really feel suicidal.
Hay stated that a detective from the LASD’s Special Victims Bureau contacted him on Tuesday this week to notify him that she had been assigned to his case.
Hay is cooperating with authorities, hopeful that their lively investigation might lead to additional felony costs.
“Biggie was like his supposedly his best friend,” he stated. “To just do that in a shirt and to attack me like he had?” Hay stated. “He doesn’t need to be out on the streets.”
‘A complete fantasy, totally devoid of reality’
Hay’s allegations first grew to become public this July when he filed his lawsuit anonymously in opposition to each Combs and Wallace.
Wallace is known as as a defendant with Hay claiming that he and others “conspired” with Combs to “allow or assist in Combs’ ability to carry out” his actions in opposition to Hay.
Wallace has filed a defamation go well with in opposition to Hay. In it, he claims that Hay falsified these accusations as a result of he was “irate” that Biggie’s property determined not to launch the majority of the songs produced again in 2020.
“Jonathan Hay’s allegations against CJ Wallace will be shown to be a complete fantasy, totally devoid of reality,” Jeremiah Reynolds, an legal professional for Wallace, instructed NCS. “We look forward to Hay eventually being held liable in court for defamation.”
“CJ knows what happened,” Hay stated. “He was there. He lived it.”
Combs additionally denies Hay’s claims, as he has carried out with the dozens of accusers who’ve sued him.
When contacted by NCS, a lawyer for Combs issued a blanket denial assertion.
“As Mr. Combs’ legal team has repeatedly stated for over a year now, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a media circus. Let me make it absolutely clear, Mr. Combs categorically denies as false and defamatory all claims that he sexually abused anyone,” Jonathan Davis, a civil legal professional for Combs, stated in a assertion. “He looks forward to vindicating himself in court, where such matters are decided – and not in the media – based on admissible, material evidence, not rank speculation and unsubstantiated allegations.”
Hay stated he’s not stunned that Combs continues to deny his allegations, and he stays centered on pursuing justice by way of his case.
“I’m hoping that when he gets out of jail,” Hay stated, “that he is taken straight to jail in California, or to go through the court proceedings in California, and that he spends the rest of his life in jail.”
After a two-month federal trial in New York earlier this yr, Combs is presently serving his four-plus yr sentence at Fort Dix federal jail in New Jersey.
“We’ve got to respect the jurors and the decision that they made,” Hay stated of the conviction, which Combs is presently interesting. “At least he got some time. And hopefully we can add more.”
Jason Kravarik contributed to this report.
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