DALLAS NEWS
T.D. Jakes, pastor of The Potter’s House in southern Dallas, has been named in a recent lawsuit against music producer Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Combs’ Los Angeles and Miami homes were raided by federal agents Monday as part of a sex trafficking investigation, reports say. Over the past year, Combs has been the subject of several lawsuits that have accused him of sexual assault and sex trafficking.
In February 2024, producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed a federal suit in the southern district of New York that accused Combs and several of his associates of participating in a “sex-trafficking venture.”
The suit states that Jones has “irrefutable evidence” of “Mr. Combs detailing how he planned to leverage his relationship with Bishop T.D. Jakes to soften the impact on his public image of Cassie Ventura’s lawsuit.”
Ventura, Combs’ former girlfriend, filed a suit in November 2023 that said Combs had put her through a “cycle of abuse, violence, and sex trafficking.” Three more women later filed sexual assault suits against Combs last year.
When reached by The Dallas Morning News Tuesday, a representative for T.D. Jakes initially declined to comment on the lawsuit in which Jakes is named.
In December 2023, Jakes was accused of participating in sex parties hosted by Combs in unverified reports on social media. Jakes appeared to respond to the reports in a Christmas Eve service at The Potter’s House.
“The worst that could happen, if everything was true, all I got to do is repent sincerely, from my heart. There’s enough power in the blood to cover all kinds of sin. I don’t care what it is, the blood would fix it,” Jakes said. “But I ain’t got to repent about this.”
When reached for comment about those reports, Jordan Hora, director of communications for The Potter’s House and T.D. Jakes Ministries, told The Christian Post that “recent claims circulating on pockets of social media about Bishop T.D. Jakes are unequivocally false and baseless.”
