Joseph Sherman, the previous bodyguard accused of raping a lady with Sean “Diddy” Combs, is talking out to clear his identify: “You bought the mistaken man.”
Diddy’s downfall and arrest for intercourse trafficking implicates a number of companions, associates, associates, and staff of the mogul’s empire. But, Sherman, aka Large Joe, claims Thalia Graves’ surprising lawsuit alleging a brutal assault falsely accused him. In an unfiltered interview with NBC New York, Sherman publicly denied having something to do together with her assault and revealed reported receipts he claims show his innocence.
“It’s a lie on me. I don’t know this girl from anyplace,” Sherman stated. “I’m not questioning her integrity. I’m simply questioning her claims in opposition to me.”
Thalia Graves’ Sexual Assault Lawsuit Towards Diddy And Joseph Sherman
As BOSSIP beforehand reported, Graves filed a lawsuit in opposition to Diddy and Sherman for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting her in 2001. Graves stated she dated an worker of Combs, who “lured her into assembly him and Sherman alone” on the Unhealthy Boy Leisure headquarters. The submitting states she obtained a drink “possible laced with a drug,” misplaced consciousness, and awoke “to seek out herself certain and restrained.”
Along with accusing each males of brutal sexual assault, Graves claimed Sherman beat her and recorded the “horrific rape.” After Cassie’s lawsuit in opposition to Diddy opened the floodgates of sexual assault, abuse, and trafficking allegations, Graves stated she found Sherman allegedly recorded the assault. She claims Combs and Sherman “continued to indicate the video of the rape to others through the years and thru to the current and/or bought the video as pornography.”
Sherman denies that he was anyplace close to Graves or working for Diddy when the assault allegedly occurred. He revealed reported receipts to again his claims that he’s the sufferer of a “money seize.”
Learn Joseph “Large Joe” Sherman’s facet of the story and his reported receipts about why Thalia Graves named him within the Diddy lawsuit after the flip.
Joseph “Large Joe” Sherman Units The File With Reported Receipts
Sherman categorically denied assaulting Graves and claimed he couldn’t probably be the person she described in her federal lawsuit. He clarified that he wasn’t head of safety and even nonetheless working for Diddy in 2001.
“Not solely wasn’t I there, I wasn’t even in New York,” he stated, including that he solely labored for Unhealthy Boy Information within the Nineties. Sherman claims that he has no present relationship together with his former boss, who stays behind bars with out bail awaiting his intercourse trafficking trial.
Sherman initially didn’t dispute that Graves was assaulted. Then, he went on to say she named him within the lawsuit as a result of she was “orchestrating a cash seize.”
“And she or he needed me to be a part of that cash seize…She needed to get Diddy,” Sherman stated.
NBC New York verified a connection between Graves and an Instagram account that DMed Sherman in November 2023. He claims the messages fishing to establish him as Diddy’s bodyguard show “she doesn’t know who I’m.” The messages seemingly supplied immunity from naming Sherman within the lawsuit in alternate for changing into a witness in opposition to Diddy.
“If you can be my witness in opposition to Diddy, then my attorneys will depart you out of any proceedings as a result of we have now statements that you simply bodily confirmed over eight individuals movies of me and also you to individuals within the studio,” the account wrote to Sherman.
“I don’t know what the f**okay you speaking about [or] know who the f**okay you’re,” he responded.
Graves went on to call Sherman within the lawsuit filed per week after Diddy’s federal intercourse trafficking arrest in September. Now, Sherman says he’s “nothing however a scapegoat for this BS as a result of I wouldn’t lie on Puffy — Sean Combs.” He added that there “by no means was a video. I by no means noticed this girl.”
He additionally shut down claims that he works with an organization distributing pornography. Sherman defined that he publishes fashions in city rap magazines, however “I don’t present nude ladies.” He doubled down that the “cash seize” was destroying his life.
“She is aware of what she did to me destroyed my household, destroyed my livelihood — I can’t get a job,” stated Sherman, who plans to file a counterclaim and sure defamation swimsuit.
Sherman stated his contact with Graves made him query her motivations. Nonetheless, greater than 100 alleged victims got here ahead with abuse allegations since Diddy’s arrest. Like Graves, they reportedly didn’t really feel protected to come back ahead till he was behind bars.