EXCLUSIVE: Diddy Ready To Fight Freak-Off Worker; Demands Trial Over Trafficking Claims
Diddy is demanding a jury trial in Clayton Howard’s $20M lawsuit while serving time at Fort Dix and appealing his Mann Act conviction.
Black News 
Diddy is behind bars at Fort Dix, but he’s not backing down from a fight with one of his favorite freak-off workers.
The Bad Boy mogul just filed a demand for a jury trial in the $20 million lawsuit brought by Clayton Howard, the former male escort who says Diddy and Cassie used him for sex and left him with nothing.
His lawyers dropped the filing in a California federal court, and Diddy, his company CeOpco LLC and Bad Boy Entertainment LLC all want twelve regular people to hear this case.
Howard has been going at Diddy and Cassie hard since he filed his suit back in July 2025. He says Cassie brought him in through an escort service around 2009 and kept him around for close to 10 years of paid freak-off sessions.
Howard claims Diddy went by the fake name “Frank Black” while Cassie used her own fake names to stay hidden. Things got even worse when Howard said Cassie gave him an STD, got pregnant by him and then aborted the baby without ever telling him.
He’s been telling his story to anyone who will listen, and he’s even going to law school so he can fight his own case after his building company fell apart from all the press.
The fact that Diddy wants a jury trial right now is wild because the man is already doing time.
A jury found him guilty on July 2, 2025, on two Mann Act counts for moving people across state lines for sex. Judge Arun Subramanian gave him 50 months in October 2025 and imposed a $500,000 fine, in addition to five years of supervised release upon his release.
The jury did let him walk on the bigger counts, clearing him on both racketeering and sex trafficking charges that could have put him away for life.
Diddy cut some time off by finishing a drug rehab program at Fort Dix, and right now the feds have him set to walk out on April 15, 2028.
His appeal is still alive, and his legal team appeared before three judges at the Second Circuit on April 9, 2026, to argue that the Mann Act should never have been applied to him.
His lawyer told the panel that Diddy’s taped sessions were protected speech under the First Amendment and not crimes at all. The judges still haven’t made a call, and their ruling could flip the whole thing around for him.
Howard may be the next person to face off against Diddy in court, depending on the judge’s ruling.
