Lawsuits Claim Diddy’s Baby Oil Was Laced With Drugs

Question

A series of new suits filed against the music mogul allege that his now-notorious baby oil may have contained GHB.

Answer 1

Well, yes. This was claimed:

Six anonymous lawsuits were brought against Combs by Tony Buzbee, a personal-injury lawyer out of Houston who’s been soliciting clients through a hotline... All six complaints share the same introductory section, which features a claim that Combs’s now-notorious baby oil may have been laced with drugs.

The complaints allege that Combs “particularly fancied the use of the popular date-rape drug Rohypnol, or GHB, to commit heinous non-consensual acts of sexual violence and rape against countless victims.” (Rohypnol and GHB are not the same drug, though the complaints appear to use the terms interchangeably.) The complaints go on to allege that Combs would “use the drug in an alcoholic beverage served at his parties,” sneaking doses into drinks provided to his victims.
The Cut

...While narcotics and baby oil were both mentioned separately in the federal indictment against Combs — prosecutors claimed that both were seized from his homes in the federal raids — there were no details about the baby oil being laced.

There are a couple more details in The Cut article you pulled this headline from, some of which corroborate these claims of drug lacing and others that may contradict them. I imagine as criminal proceedings, well, proceed, we'll get to know more about this particular detail.

There are a few other outlets reporting on this — none of which I'd particularly trust for genuine reporting, most being entertainment gossip rags — but there's no way to know this soon if the actual allegations are true or false. However, yes: it is true there have been allegations, and these claims should be duly investigated.

Answer 2

According to NBC, “Combs particularly fancied the use of the popular date-rape drug Rohypnol, or GHB to commit heinous non-consensual acts of sexual violence and rape against countless victims.” The lawsuit references the allegations against Combs of “dousing victims in lotions or similar body oils” and claims these lubricants were laced with GHB “so that the drug would be absorbed through the victim’s skin and make it easier to take advantage of, exploit, and assault him or her.”

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/sean-diddy-combs-baby-oil-was-allegedly-laced-with-date-rape-drug/4002710/

Answer 3

The website that this article can be found on, The Cut, is a gossip page and not an entirely credible source, so looking through the article it is important to trace back to the original sources. A lot of the sources in the article are actually just links back to other articles from the same publication, which doesn’t prove very much. However, there are some other articles linked to back up the claim. These include a TMZ article that talks about a porn star who worked for Diddy and claimed she was given laced drinks(TMZ allegedly got this information from “the docs”) and page six article that quotes a lawyer named Mitchell-Kidd who seems to be the only one who has actually made claims about baby oil being laced. Both of these linked publications are gossip/pop culture columns, and the author of the original piece, Olivia Craighead, is a gossip reporter who has mostly only done work for The Cut. All-together, the lack of reliable sources makes this article less credible. There is one link to a NYT article, but it doesn’t address the laced oil claims and only discusses information about the lawyer working against Diddy and how he has been soliciting clients through a hotline. Additionally, there are other articles making the same claim, including newsweek.com and economictimes.com, but the type of sources that are reporting on it make it seem as though this is very much still a rumor and is still far from being confirmed. It is also important to note that the headline of the article simply states that Lawsuits are claiming the oil was laced, not that it actually was. Overall, this article should simply be viewed as a conspiracy/gossip piece, and the information should be taken with a grain of salt.