Sean “Diddy” Combs
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The woman who has been described as Sean “Diddy” Combs’ right hand has issued her first statement since being named in multiple lawsuits in association with her boss, fully denying that she ever “aided and abetted the sexual assault of anyone.”
Kristina Khorram — also known as “KK” — has worked for the Bad Boy Entertainment founder for more than a decade, joining Combs Enterprises as a senior executive in 2013, according to her since-deleted LinkedIn account. The 37-year-old rose through the ranks of Combs’ company and was named as his chief of staff in 2020.
Khorram’s proximity to Combs has entangled her in three lawsuits that have been brought against Combs, who was arrested in September on sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy, and transportation to engage in prostitution charges. Combs pleaded not guilty to the counts and his criminal trial is set for May 5 in the Southern District of New York.
“For months, horrific accusations have been made about me in various lawsuits regarding my former boss,” Khorram said in a statement 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 continued. “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.”
Combs has previously praised his “soul sister” Khorram. The weekend Combs’ ex-girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura filed her bombshell sexual abuse and sex trafficking lawsuit against Combs, Khorram was seen sitting by her distraught boss’ side in Miami. (Combs denied Ventura’s claims and quickly settled the lawsuit.)
“KK keeps everything in my life and my business running,” Combs wrote in a Facebook shoutout in January 2021. “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.” (A representative for Khorram did not clarify when she left Combs’ employment. )
Last February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones 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 Combs’ 2023 album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, Combs made sexual advances on him, including groping his buttocks and genitals. (An attorney for Combs previously denied Jones’ claims, calling them “pure fiction – a shameless attempt to create media hype and extract a quick settlement.”)
When Jones allegedly told Khorram about the unwanted encounters, according to his lawsuit, she allegedly responded “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.’”
Jones claimed Khorram oversaw all aspects of Combs’ personal life, including paying hired sex workers for Combs. She allegedly required all of Combs’ personal employees to carry a fanny pack filled 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),” according to the lawsuit.
Khorram was also named in Combs’ former executive assistant Phil Pines’ sexual harassment and battery lawsuit in December. Pines worked for Combs from late 2019 to late 2021 and answered directly to Khorram, who was his supervisor. (Combs generally denied Pines’ claims.)
Pines placed Khorram at the center of Combs’ personal world in a sit-down interview for the ID docuseries The Fall of Diddy (made in partnership with Rolling Stone Films). In his lawsuit and in the docuseries, Pines alleged that he once witnessed Combs kick a woman to the ground outside of his Miami home in January 2021. “I told you I was crazy,” Combs allegedly told the woman, before kicking her in the stomach and demanding his sweatshirt back, leaving her topless.
Pines alleged in his lawsuit that he later told Khorram about the incident and how upset it had made him. “Defendant Khorram instructed Plaintiff to never speak about it and there are repercussions that can happen if he did,” his lawsuit claimed.
A large part of Pines’ job, he claimed, was preparing for what Combs and Khorram allegedly called “Wild King Nights,” which he described as chaotic, days-long sexual encounters between Combs and a woman.
Pines claimed it was Khorram who would usually alert him to Combs wanting to have a “Wild King Night,” sending him on a mad dash to set up hotel rooms with baby oil, lube, male libido pills, Plan B, candles, mood lighting, and a variety of sex toys. Khorram would also allegedly let Pines know when Combs was finished and he would go clean up what he described as the “wreckage” inside the rooms.
In October, Khorram was also named in a sexual assault lawsuit brought against Combs by a woman in San Francisco. Combs and others named in the California lawsuit have denied her claims.
From Rolling Stone US.