Sean “Diddy” Combs will not be present at the 2024 Grammys.
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“By 2022, many people in management were aware of Gonzales’s egregious conduct and what he did to Plaintiff,” alleges a sexual assault suit filed yesterday by a current Disney employee against the Mouse House, its ex-VP Distribution Nolan Gonzales and various former Fox assets. “Plaintiff overheard a chairperson at Disney say that Gonzales was a pervert and that other women at the company felt the same way,” the jury trial seeking complaint bluntly adds.
“Even though individuals in management were aware of Gonzales’s conduct, they concealed their knowledge from human resources.”
The sexual assault, sexual battery, retaliation and seven other claims suit was filed on January 2 in LA Superior Court by a Jane Doe who is a near decade long staffer at Fox and now Disney. Detailing lurid alleged conduct by former executive Gonzales, the complaint spawns the one-time “supervisory level” employees almost entire duration at the now merged companies from 2014 onwards.
A timespan that reads like a fast decent into corporate Hell.
“Plaintiff was not Gonzales’s first victim nor his last,” states the filing under California’s Sexual Abuse and Cover Up Accountability Act, which permits civil lawsuits on claims that otherwise would be time-barred by the statute of limitations.
Getting explicit at times, the suit (read the sexual assault suit against Disney and Gonzales here) lists nights, days and years of “aggressive” touching from almost the start of her time at Fox as an executive assistant. Things quickly escalated to Gonzales allegedly forcing Jane Doe into “ingesting illicit drugs and encouraged Plaintiff to consume excessive amounts of alcohol so that he could sexually abuse her with limited resistance or questioning,” the
Sean “Diddy” Combs will not be present at the 2024 Grammys.
Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer In early November, Sean “Diddy” Combs secured a Grammy nomination in the best progressive R&B album category for “The Love Album: Off the Grid.” But shortly after, the music mogul faced a slew of lawsuits stemming from sexual assault charges, leading to his temporary resignation as chairman of Revolt and the cancellation of his Hulu reality show. Those wondering if Combs will show face at the 2024 Grammy Awards can put the speculation to rest as Combs will not be attending the ceremony on Feb.
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