Porn star D’Angelo ‘Knockout’ Marquis comes forward to say he’s pictured in Sean Combs’
A male porn star has come forward to say that he is the person pictured in record producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones’ $30 million lawsuit against music mogul Diddy, who has strenuously denied the allegations made.
Shocking images in the lawsuit purportedly show a man engaged in penetrative sex with another man. The documents claim that the man pictured is super producer Stevie J aka Steven Jordan, a long time cohort of Diddy.
Jones said in the suit that among the many instances of harassment was being forced to watch Jordan having sex with another man.
In response to the pictures being posted on X, D’Angelo ‘Knockout’ Marquis, replied ‘That’s me smh.’
‘This is not [Stevie J] it’s me, y’all be really trying it,’ he wrote in another message. In a subsequent Instagram post, Marquis wrote in the caption of a video: ‘Yes, I was at Diddy’s party, now what?’
According to his OnlyFans page, Marquis is a ‘professional award winning male entertainer who boasts nearly 100,000 followers on Instagram.
In several posts on social media, porn star D’Angelo ‘Knockout’ Marquis claims he’s the person pictured in the lawsuit that Diddy faces
Record producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones claims he was subjected to a year of grooming and abuse
The rapper and music industry mogul Sean Combs was sued November 16 by the singer Cassie, who accused him of rape and physical abuse before the case was settled out of court
Stevie J has been a long time cohort of Diddy’s and until 2023 was recently married to Faith Evans, shown here, the widow Biggie Smalls
Stevie J also responded to the filing saying: ‘This lawsuit is bogus!’ accompanied by three clown emojis.
The producer has been associated with Diddy for years and until 2023 was married to the widow of Biggie Smalls aka Christopher Wallace, who was shot dead in 1997.
The suit, filed in federal court in New York, accuses Combs of repeated instances of unsolicited groping and sexual touching. It also says the man had to work in a bathroom while Combs showered and walked around naked.
A lawyer for Combs called the events described in the lawsuit ‘pure fiction.’
‘We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies,’ said Combs attorney Shawn Holley. ‘We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them,’ he added.
In the lawsuit, the producer claims Combs made him solicit prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them. It also described a time when the producer woke up in bed with two sex workers, suspecting he had been drugged.
The legal claim is one of several sexual assault lawsuits filed against Combs in recent months, including a lawsuit from the R&B singer Cassie that was settled last year. Another of Combs’ accusers was a woman who said the rap producer raped her two decades ago when she was 17.
Combs has denied the allegations. In a statement in December, he said the ‘sickening’ claims had been made by people ‘looking for a quick payday.’
‘Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth,’ he said.
Combs has denied the allegations. In a statement in December, he said the ‘sickening’ claims had been made by people ‘looking for a quick payday’
Stevie J has called the lawsuit ‘bogus’
‘Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday,’ attorney Shawn Holley told TMZ.
‘His reckless name-dropping about events that are pure fiction and simply did not happen is nothing more than a transparent attempt to garner headlines.
‘We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof with Mr Jones’ attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr Blackburn refuses to return our calls.’
Combs recruited Jones in August 2022 to produce some of the songs on the R&B album ‘The Love Album: Off the Grid’ which was nominated for a Grammy after its release in September 2023.
‘Mr Jones agreed, and his life has been detrimentally impacted ever since,’ the lawsuit claims.
For more than a year he endured ‘constant unsolicited and unauthorized groping and touching of his anus’, at Combs’ homes in Florida, Los Angeles and New York, as well as on a rented yacht in the US Virgin Islands.
Combs introduced him to Cuba Gooding Jr on the yacht where the actor allegedly began ‘touching, groping, and fondling Mr Jones’s legs, his upper inner thighs near his groin, the small of his back near his buttocks and his shoulders.’
He claims he was also sexually assaulted by a female cousin of Combs’s girlfriend Yung Miami and forced to watch a video of record producer Stevie J having sex with another man.
Jones’s suit was filed on Monday at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York three weeks after Jones launched a Gofundme appeal asking for money to sue the rapper for unpaid royalties
Jones was required to work in Combs’ bathroom where the star would shower naked behind a glass screen, according to the lawsuit.
The producer alleges Combs boasted of having shot people and threatened to inflict bodily harm if Jones did not comply with his demands.
He says the ‘forceful and demanding’ star privately admitted involvement in a 1999 nightclub shooting that saw him acquitted of gun possession and bribery charges.
‘Mr Combs consistently made it clear that he has immense power in the music industry and with law enforcement,’ the lawsuit claims.
Jones claims that underage girls and sex workers were guests at the star’s house parties and that he saw the star drug their drinks.
He also claims he was ordered to Miami trawl bars and nightspots to recruit sex workers, and says he himself was drugged in February last year before he woke up naked, dizzy and confused in bed with Combs and two sex workers.
The suit was filed on Monday at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York three weeks after Jones launched a Gofundme appeal asking for money to sue the rapper for unpaid royalties.
‘For the better part of the past 6 months, my team and I have extended every opportunity we knew possible to have these matters addressed and resolved (fairly) but in private,’ he wrote.
Within an hour of December’s lawsuit being filed, Combs emphatically denied all accusations against him in a tweet that has already been viewed by hundreds of thousands of people
‘However, Diddy’s negotiation tactics, to stall communications, dry out (my) funds, and have me negotiating out of desperation or without a real means of fighting back has forced me here!’
His lawsuit also names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of staff Kristina Khorram, and Universal Music Group CEO Sir Lucian Grange as defendants.
It accuses Khorram of ‘grooming’ him on Combs’s behalf and claims that Motown Records, Love Records and Universal Music Group comprised a ‘Rico enterprise’ that ‘failed to adequately monitor, warn or supervise’ Combs and his inner circle.
A spokesman for Justin Combs said he ‘categorically denies these absurd allegations’.
‘They are all lies!’ he added, ‘This is a clear example of a desperate person taking desperate measures in hopes of a pay day.’
Earlier this week Combs senior was forced to deny gang-raping a 17-year-old girl in his Manhattan recording studio, claiming a photograph of her sitting in his lap ‘isn’t accurate’.
His filing in the same New York court denies her claim that Combs, his longtime friend Harve Pierre and a third unidentified man flew her to his New York studio before plying her with ‘copious amounts of drugs and alcohol in 2003.
Combs has recently fortified his legal team with new lawyers, according to Rolling Stone.
They include Bobbi C Sternheim, who defended Ghislaine Maxwell, and Shawn Holley who successfully got Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer reinstated with Major League Baseball amid sexual assault allegations.