Reginald VelJohnson has responded to allegations that he was beforehand sexually concerned with Sean “Diddy” Combs amid the rapper’s arrest for intercourse trafficking on Sept. 16.
“That’s all bulls–t,” the 72-year-old advised TMZ throughout an outing in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon.
“I don’t know that man,” VelJohnson, who’s presently competing on Season 33 of “DWTS,” responded. “I’ve by no means met him earlier than.”
The “Household Issues” alum despatched Combs, 54, his nicely needs regardless of the ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation towards him.
VelJohnson advised the reporter, “I want him nicely, although,” earlier than including that those that proceed the rumors must “get a life.”
Simply 4 months earlier than Combs’ arrest, a video surfaced on X of comic Luce Cannon alleging that VelJohnson had intercourse with the singer.
Cannon claimed that he was at a celebration thrown by Combs when he heard squealing coming from behind the door in a single bed room. “Someone sporting this b–ch out!” he mentioned within the clip.
Cannon alleged he knocked on the door to search out VelJohnson with Combs.
“Busted the door and search for, and I see Carl Winslow,” shared the comic.
VelJohnson performed the character of Carl Winslow on “Household Issues” from 1989 to 1998. The ABC sitcom additionally starred Jaleel White, who performed Steve Urkel.
Combs has been on the middle of a number of allegations since he was arrested in New York Metropolis and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution. He was arraigned in a federal Manhattan courthouse the next day.
Combs’ arrest got here six months after the feds raided his mansions in Los Angeles and Miami as a part of the investigation into the alleged decades-long abuse.
The 14-page indictment paints the fallen mogul because the ringleader of a legal enterprise that allowed him to allegedly abuse, threaten, and coerce ladies for years “to meet his sexual wishes, defend his status, and conceal his conduct.”
“To take action, Combs relied on the workers, assets, and affect of the multi-faceted enterprise empire that he led and managed — making a legal enterprise whose members and associates engaged in, and tried to have interaction in, amongst different crimes, intercourse trafficking, compelled labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice,” the criticism says.
Combs would allegedly lure feminine victims and male intercourse staff into drugged-up, usually days-long, sexual performances dubbed “Freak Offs,” the indictment prices.
In response to the court docket papers, the ladies, who had been lured in beneath the false pretense of a romantic relationship, would then be fed medicine in a bid to maintain them “obedient and compliant.”
Combs would allegedly watch and masturbate in the course of the “elaborate and produced intercourse performances,” which he would allegedly movie to make use of as collateral towards his victims.
The feds declare that the “usually” occurring encounters may final for days, and Combs and the victims would usually obtain IV fluids within the aftermath “to get better from the bodily exertion and drug use.”
The disgraced artist was first accused of a years-long sample of home and sexual violence — and even trafficking — towards his former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, in a federal lawsuit she filed towards him final November.
