A music producer living in Pinellas County revealed this week that he is the “John Doe” in a civil complaint filed in California’s Los Angeles County accusing music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault.

Largo resident Jonathan Hay was contracted in 2020 to work on a covers album reworking music by the Notorious B.I.G. as instrumental house and techno tracks. He claims that unreleased project, “Ready to Dance,” put him in contact with Combs in Los Angeles on two occasions.

The first time, Hay says, was at a shoot in February 2020 where Hay was photographed wearing a jersey once owned by the Notorious B.I.G.

While they were alone in a room with racks of B.I.G.’s clothes, Hay claims, Combs watched pornography on his phone and masturbated under a different shirt once owned by the late

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