L.A. County Sheriff's Department investigating sex battery claim against Sean 'Diddy' Combs

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating a sexual battery allegation from five years ago against Sean "Diddy" Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two interstate prostitution convictions

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating a sexual battery allegation from five years ago against Sean "Diddy" Combs, the hip-hop mogul who is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two interstate prostitution convictions.

The new allegation was made in Largo, Florida, on Sept. 20, according to a police report. A male music publicist and producer said he was invited to a photo shoot in a Los Angeles warehouse in 2020 about an upcoming project, according to the police report.

The accuser alleged that at the shoot, Combs began masturbating under a shirt while he was watching pornography and then exposed himself and told the accuser to assist, according to the report.

The producer did not respond to Combs, who continued before he threw the shirt at him, he told police, according to the document.

The man told police that he did not tell anyone about the event out of embarrassment, according to the police report. In March 2021, while he was in Santa Monica about the music project, two men at a house grabbed the producer, threw something over his head and took him to a room where Combs berated him and called him a snitch, the man told Largo police, according to the report.