Conflicting stars Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Jonathan Majors have controversially appeared on a ballot to choose BET Award nominees.
Diddy, 54, who faces multiple sexual assault lawsuits, and Majors, 34, who was convicted of assaulting his ex-girlfriend Grace Jabbari, could earn nominations for the awards, which take place on June 30.
The first round of voting to determine the nominees began this week, according to THRwith Combs’ The Love Album: Off the Grid up for album of the year, while the album’s song Closer to God featuring Teyana Taylor competes for best collaboration.
Diddy’s guest appearance on Metro Boomin’s Creepin, which also features The Weeknd and 21 Savage, appears in the video of the year ballot.
Meanwhile, Majors could land a best actor nomination as he competes alongside 100 other performers.
Conflicting stars Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Jonathan Majors have controversially appeared on a ballot to choose BET Award nominees.
Majors recently appeared in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Artists can submit for BET Awards consideration through record labels, studios, managers and representatives; some categories allow voting members to submit potential candidates in writing. Voting for the first round closes on May 7.
This comes weeks after Majors was sentenced in NY for Domestic violence case involving his ex-girlfriend Jabbari.
Regarding the domestic violence incident, which occurred in March 2023, his harassment charge was dismissed and he was sentenced to probation.
He was also sentenced to a year-long domestic violence intervention program, which he must complete or spend six months in prison.
Jabbari spoke against him during the sentencing hearing, stating that the actor “does not repent, has not accepted responsibility” and would allegedly offend again.
Last month, the legal team representing Combs asked a New York court to dismiss allegations that the entertainer engaged in revenge pornography and human trafficking in 1991, as alleged in a lawsuit filed by a woman. last fall.
Diddy’s accuser in the case, who publicly identified herself as Joi Dickerson-Neal, said in legal documents that the music artist, 54, had drugged and sexually assaulted her in January 1991 in New York City.
The first round of voting to determine the nominees began this week, according to THR, with Combs’ The Love Album: Off the Grid on the ballot for album of the year, while the album’s song Closer to God featuring Teyana Taylor competes for best collaboration.
Majors recently appeared in Creed III and Ant-Man and the Wasp (pictured)
Diddy has denied all allegations made in the lawsuit, with his attorneys calling them “false, offensive and lewd.”
Lawyers for the Grammy-winning artist said in a motion filed Friday that the revenge porn and human trafficking allegations “were brought under statutes that did not exist at the time the alleged misconduct occurred,” according to reviewed court documents. by People.
Dickerson-Neal said in legal documents that she was a student at Syracuse University when she crossed paths with the hip-hop artist while they had dinner at a restaurant in Harlem and then went to a recording studio.
In March, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal authorities in a sex trafficking investigation.
The criminal investigation is a major escalation in scrutiny of Combs, who has been the defendant in several recent sexual abuse lawsuits.
In a lawsuit that Combs settled the day after his performance in November, his former protégé and girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, sued him alleging years of sexual abuse, including rape. The lawsuit says he forced her to have sex with prostitutes while she filmed them.
In February, a music producer filed a lawsuit alleging that Combs forced him to hire prostitutes and pressured him to have sex with them. Another of Combs’ accusers was a woman who said he raped her two decades ago, when she was 17 years old.
Combs and his attorneys have denied all allegations in the lawsuits.