Sean “Diddy” Combs will reportedly miss the 2024 Grammys after facing sex assault allegations.
The billionaire rapper and businessman is nominated in the Best Progressive RB Album category for his latest project The Love Album: Off the Grid but sources say he won’t be turning up at the awards after claims he sexually assaulted several women.
The New York Post‘s Page Six coulmn said it is standard policy for the Recording Academy to issue an invitation to all nominees, and said Diddy hadn’t been “disinvited” from the event, but reported he won’t be going.
“We are taking this matter very seriously and we are in the process of evaluating it with the time and care that it deserves,” the Academy told Rolling Stone in December about the accusations against Diddy.
This year’s Grammys ceremony will take place at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on Feb.
Diddy’s Off the Grid record featured a star-studded lineup of appearances from artists including Busta Rhymes, Mary J. Blige, Summer Walker, Fabolous, Jazmine Sullivan and Babyface.
Diddy faced accusations in 2023 from multiple women that he subjected them to rape and abuse.
In November, the Bad Boy Records founder’s ex and former artist Cassie filed a lawsuit against the rapper, alleging that he raped and abused her during their 10-year relationship.
In the suit, the “Me and U” singer, born Casandra Ventura, claimed her ex “was prone to uncontrollable rage, and frequently beat Ms. Ventura savagely.”
Combs vehemently denied Cassie’s claims, saying via his attorney at the time he had been “subjected to” Cassie’s “persistent demand of $30 million, under the threat of writing a damaging book about their relationship, which was unequivocally rejected as blatant blackmail.”
Diddy and Cassie have settled her lawsuit, but after it was made public. He faced three additional lawsuits from women who claimed he sexually assaulted them.
In the most recent lawsuit, a woman claimed she was 17 years old when Diddy allegedly drugged and gang raped her in 2003.
The hip-hop mogul has denied all of the allegations against him.
