Diddy Lawsuit Naming Druski & Odell Beckham Dismissed By Judge After Lawyers Won’t Touch It

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs that included sensational claims involving NFL star Odell Beckham Jr. and comedian Druski.

Ashley Parham sued Diddy last year, including not just accusations of sexual assault but also kidnapping, threats with a knife and gunshots. In March, she added Beckham and Druski – claims the two men vehemently denied as fabrications.

But in a ruling on Tuesday, Judge Rita Lin dismissed the case on the grounds that Parham had never actually litigated it. The accuser wanted more time to find new lawyers after her old team withdrew in September, but the judge suggested that no lawyer would want to touch her case.

“It has been over two months since plaintiffs’ counsel’s withdrawal, and plaintiffs describe consulting an array of potential counsel, who have each declined to take the matter,” the judge wrote. “The barrier to obtaining counsel therefore does not appear to be plaintiffs’ capacity to seek counsel, but the willingness of counsel to be retained in the matter. There is no indication that this barrier is likely to resolve.”

In a statement to Billboard on Wednesday, Druski said the evidence in the case “overwhelmingly showed that I was innocent” and that he had never even met Parham. He thanked his supporters for standing by him as the accuser “attempted to destroy my reputation for greed.”

“From the beginning, I knew these disgusting lies would be exposed as nothing more than a malicious money grab,” the star said. “I pray for the real victims of assault. We can’t allow these clout-chasing antics to deter true survivors from coming forward and speaking out against their abusers in the future.”

In his own statement to Billboard, Beckham’s attorney Andrew V. Jablon said the football star was pleased that “these scurrilous allegations can finally be put to rest” and that the ruling “confirms the reality that this case never should have been filed.”

“There certainly was no reasonable basis for maintaining the action against him once plaintiff’s attorneys had been provided with uncontroverted evidence that Mr. Beckham – who has never met Plaintiff and never been to the area in question – was hundreds of miles away at the time of the alleged assault,” Jablon said.

Representatives for Diddy did not return a request for comment on Wednesday A representative for Parham, who is no longer represented by lawyers, could not immediately be located.

Parham filed her case in 2024, one of dozens of civil lawsuits brought against Combs over the past two years alleging sexual abuse and other forms of wrongdoing. The embattled mogul was convicted in July on criminal prostitution charges and sentenced to four years in prison, but was cleared of more serious charges that could have sent him to prison for life.

Many of the civil lawsuits against Diddy included scandalous claims, but the Parham case stood out. She claimed she had been drugged, kidnapped, and violently raped in a 2018 incident in which both Beckham and Druski participated – then had gunshots fired at her as she fled after confronting Combs with a knife.

Druski, who was not yet famous in 2018, strongly denied the claims — calling the case a “fabricated lie” and that his inclusion was “truly outlandish.” Beckham similarly denied the allegations, saying that his “name will be cleared.”

Both men later sought legal punishment against Parham and her lawyers for naming them in the case. Druski’s lawyers cited phone records showing that their client was at home in Georgia on the day of the alleged assault, thousands of miles from the alleged attack in Northern California. Beckham’s filings say he was at home in Los Angeles, where he was “widely seen and photographed” the next day at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.

In her ruling, Judge Lin rejected the case merely for inaction. Parham has “still not served” the lawsuit on the defendants and had repeatedly blown procedural deadlines, the judge said. After months of waiting, the judge said it was time to close the case.

“The Court has warned Plaintiffs several times that the case would be dismissed … if they continued to miss the required deadlines,” the judge said, though she said it could be refiled if Parham finds new lawyers willing to take on her case.

The judge denied, however, the motions by Druski and Beckham seeking to sanction Parham. She ruled that such punishment is typically denied, and that a lawsuit merely needs “some plausible basis, even a weak one.”