Diddy‘s lawyer says a pair people who had been recognized as minors within the salacious lawsuit filed in opposition to the mogul are usually not minors in any respect … they’re absolutely grown girls.
Shawn Holley tells TMZ … two girls have come ahead to clear the air after they noticed their photographs included in Rodney Jones‘ explosive authorized declare from Monday — the place he alleged all the things below the solar in opposition to Diddy, together with claims of partying with underage women.
There are images included in Rodney’s lawsuit that purport to indicate a celebration that Diddy threw final summer season in L.A. … and among the photographs present Diddy and his son Justin round some girls — with captions characterizing them as minors.
The go well with even blacks out their faces … maybe in an try and lend credence to the notion they’re underage — however Holley tells us two of the ladies depicted are something however that.
For starters, she tells us the lady depicted within the screenshot of Diddy has really come ahead to her to set the report straight … as she feels she’s been grossly mislabeled, as have the circumstances below which she was in Diddy’s firm that night time.
Holley tells us the lady’s identify is Chelsea, a 33-year-old … who has a toddler. We’re advised Chelsea doesn’t wish to publicly reveal her full id — hoping to take care of her and her household’s privateness amid this complete mess — however we’re advised she insists that is 100% her within the pic.
More importantly … we have been supplied with a photograph of Chelsea, which we’re advised exhibits her in the identical bodysuit outfit she was apparently sporting within the picture included in Rodney’s go well with.
We’ve blurred her face within the picture — out of respect for her privateness — however the backside line right here is … Chelsea is saying she’s in that image with Diddy, and he or she is most undoubtedly NOT a minor.
There’s one other picture of Justin on this lawsuit that purports to indicate him partying/hanging round underage women on the similar celebration — however Holley tells us … that, too, is fake … as the lady whose face is blacked out within the pic is definitely Justin’s 32-year-old girlfriend.
We’ve obtained what we’re advised is an unredacted model of the picture in Rodney’s lawsuit — and positive sufficient, it seems to be Justin’s important different, Stephanie Rao.
There’s one other picture of Justin and Stephanie from the identical night time — however a unique angle — that seems to again up that it is her.
Holley factors to this as proof that Rodney and his attorneys had been, at a minimal, careless in placing collectively the criticism right here.
Last however not least … we have gotten some clarification on Rodney’s declare that Diddy and Justin had been by some means concerned in a capturing that left a person injured at a recording studio right here in Hollywood — one thing Rodney alleged in his criticism was coated up by Diddy himself.
But, our regulation enforcement sources inform us … the story that was advised to cops that night time — specifically, that the sufferer was robbed at gunpoint and shot by unknown assailants outdoors — ended up resulting in arrests within the case, and people suspects are at the moment awaiting trial.
We’re advised cops suppose the gunshot sufferer stepped outdoors of the studio round 3:30 AM and was accosted by two people … at which level they tried to rob him. Our sources say the person suffered a gunshot wound … and when officers arrived, there was no signal of Diddy in any respect.
The alleged culprits are Rudolph Flowers and Laron Bundley — and we’re advised they’re suspected in different crimes in and round Los Angeles … together with follow-home robberies.
Long story quick … Holley thinks that is simply one other one of many dominoes that’ll begin to fall as the small print of Rodney’s go well with get picked aside.
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We reached out to Rodeny’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn, who did not get particular on the brand new information however tells TMZ … “Thanks to Shawn Holley, Sean Combs and Justin Combs are on a quick observe to the identical destiny as Tory Lanze (sic) and Danny Masterson.”