Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Right-Hand Woman Breaks Silence on Accusations Against Her
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Chief of Staff at Bad Boy Entertainment, Kristina Khorram, has broken her silence after being named in at least three civil lawsuits alongside her former boss that involve sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, claiming that she is innocent.
Khorram, 38, worked alongside the rap mogul for over a decade and has been described by the beleaguered billionaire fashion and music icon as his 'right-hand woman.' Known as 'KK,' she started working for Diddy in 2013 as a senior executive at Combs Enterprises. By 2020, Khorram was his chief of staff and had grown so close to Combs that on the day his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura first filed the lawsuit that brought his life crashing down, she was photographed alongside him in Miami.
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On Wednesday, months after Khorram was named in three of the dozens of civil complaints filed against Combs since his September arrest in New York on sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution charges, the now former Bad Boy boss is speaking out to flat out deny all accusations.
'For months, horrific accusations have been made about me in various lawsuits regarding my former boss,' Khorram said in a statement sent to Rolling Stone. 'These false allegations of my involvement are causing irreparable and incalculable damage to my reputation and the emotional well-being of myself and my family. I have never condoned or aided and abetted the sexual assault of anyone. Nor have I ever drugged anyone.
'The idea that I could be accused of playing a role in — or even being a bystander to — the rape of anyone is beyond upsetting, disturbing, and unthinkable,' Khorram added in the statement. 'That is not who I am, and my heart goes out to all victims of sexual assault. I am confident that the allegations against me will be proven to be untrue.'
In 2021, a Facebook post from Combs sang her praises as controlling all aspects of his life.
'KK keeps everything in my life and my business running,' he wrote. 'She's been my right hand for the last eight years and has consistently proven to execute and get shit done. Don't know how I'd function without her.'
The allegations against Khorram began with the March addition to civil complaint filed by Rodney 'Little Rod' Jones; in February, the producer claimed Khorram was the 'Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs' Jeffrey Epstein' in his sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against the music executive. Jones alleged that throughout the making of his 2023 album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, Combs made sexual advances on him, including groping his buttocks and genitals.
In February 2024, Jones claimed Khorram was the 'Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs' Jeffrey Epstein' in an addendum to his sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against the music executive. When Jones went to Khorram with his complaint, he says he was told by Khorram, 'You know, Sean will be Sean' and 'attempted to downplay Mr. Combs' groping … as friendly horseplay, stating that those acts were Mr. Combs's way of 'showing that he likes you.''
Khorram allegedly required Combs' employees to carry a crossbody bag that contained a potpourri of illegal drugs 4 with a variety of illicit substances that she allegedly ordered and distributed, including 'cocaine, GHB, ecstasy, marijuana gummies and Tuci (a pink drug that is a combination of ecstasy and cocaine),' Jones lawsuit states.
An attorney for Combs previously denied Jones' claims, calling them 'pure fiction – a shameless attempt to create media hype and extract a quick settlement.' A rep for the mogul pointed out the fact that Jones sought funds via a GoFundMe page before filing his complaint seeking a massive settlement.
Phil Pines, Diddy's former assistant who filed a sexual harassment and battery lawsuit in December against the mogul, also drops her name in his filing. Khorram, to whom Pines reported, told him never to speak about unwanted touching from Combs and warned of repercussions if he did, his lawsuit claimed. Pines was also tasked with and sworn to secrecy about Combs' alleged 'Wild King Night' parties involving elaborate sexual encounters with women that left rooms he'd have to then clean in the terrible condition he described as 'wreckage.'
Khorram was also named in a third sexual assault lawsuit brought against Combs by a San Francisco woman. That case was filed in October and the mogul has denied that the accusations in the suit are true.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Combs Global for comment.
Combs' federal trial will begin in May in the Southern District of New York; until then, he will remain jailed at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The mogul has pleaded not guilty to all charges he faces.
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