Touré has added his voice to the ongoing Diddy drama, claiming that the Bad Boy founder once made sexual advances towards one of his male relatives who was interning for him.
The cultural critic was a guest on Joy Reid’s MSNBC show The ReidOut on Tuesday (March 26) when he made the startling allegation.
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“I was personally disturbed many years ago,” Touré said while discussing the recent federal raids on Puffy’s homes as part of a sex trafficking investigation. “I know this man well enough to call him and say, ‘Hey, I need a favor.’ This might have been 10, 12 years ago.
“I called him and said, ‘Hey, I have a family member who I want you to hire as an intern.’ I have never talked about this publicly. He said, ‘Yes.’ And they were flying around, on the jet, in the house, whatever.”
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He continued: “And then the internship stopped abruptly, like three or four months into it. I spoke to my family member like, ‘What happened?’ And they wouldn’t say.
“Years later, they finally came out — this is a male — and said that Puff had said, ‘Come home, stay the night with me or the internship is over.’ And they said, ‘Absolutely not.’ And the internship ended.”
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Touré added: “From there I was like, ‘Oh! This is how it goes.’ So to hear that things went even further with potentially, allegedly, many other people … we feel like we’ve seen this coming.”
HipHopDX has reached out to Diddy’s team for comment but has not yet received a response.
Touré’s relative isn’t the first man to accuse Diddy of sexual misconduct. Earlier this year, Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. — a producer who worked on The Love Album: Off the Grid — sued the record executive for sexual assault.
In the explosive filing, Rod accused Diddy of repeatedly engaging in unsolicited sexual contact and attempting to coerce him into having sex with other men, among an array of other offenses.
The producer further claimed to have witnessed Puffy spiking alcoholic drinks that were served to women at his home and that some of the women were underage.
Diddy vehemently denied the allegations through his lawyer Shawn Holley, dismissing them as “complete lies.”
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“Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar who filed a $30 million lawsuit shamelessly looking for an undeserved payday. 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,” Holley said in a statement to HipHopDX.
“We have overwhelming, indisputable proof that his claims are complete lies. Our attempts to share this proof with [Lil Rod]’s attorney, Tyrone Blackburn, have been ignored, as Mr. Blackburn refuses to return our calls. We will address these outlandish allegations in court and take all appropriate action against those who make them.”
