Through a representative, T.D. Jakes denied that he attended Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged sex parties.
“Recent claims circulating on pockets of social media about Bishop T.D. Jakes are unequivocally false and baseless,” said Jordan A. Hora, executive director of public relations and communications for the T.D. Jakes Group, T.D. Jakes Ministries, and The Potter’s House, The Christian Post reported.
Hora added that it was “disheartening to witness the proliferation of numerous deepfake photos and the distortion of words through false, sensationalized misrepresentations, encapsulating purported statements to falsely speculate and attack others, including Bishop Jakes.”
The response came from the viral claims of a YouTube channel, Tuff News TV, which caused Jakes’s name to trend across multiple social media outlets.
Toward the end of a 37-minute long video, host Germaine McKinley said he was sent an email from an unnamed source alleging Cassie somehow got Kim Porter’s “burner” phone and turned it over to investigators. The email, according to McKinley, also alleged that a USB device contained footage of one of Puffy’s “sex parties” and that Jakes was in attendance.
According to McKinley, the source said in the email, “I’m also told that multiple male escorts corroborated the fact that T.D. Jakes [has] slept with multiple men at Diddy’s
parties and abroad.” The unnamed source also claimed, “It’s also been said that a young male has acquired a lawyer to represent him as he is set to sue Jakes for an incident that took place when he was just 16 years old.”The source also said that the 16-year-old, whose family attended Jakes’s Dallas megachurch until 2015, was allegedly forced by Jakes to perform a sex act on him. The source said that Jakes paid the child’s family to keep it quiet, but now that he is an adult, he intends to seek justice of his own.
In addition, a viral TikTok video from user jusnene stitched together video of the allegations. The video circulated on TikTok and Twitter/X. It was viewed 11.1 million times on the latter platform by Dec. 22.
In 2022, a video of Jakes at Puffy’s 53rd birthday party caused discussion on social media, but Derrick Williams, the executive vice president of T.D. Jakes Entertainment, who also attended the party, said that Jakes made a brief appearance at the party before immediately leaving to attend to other matters.
“Bishop Jakes was in L.A. for important business meetings, and we felt that a quick appearance at the former Chairman of Revolt’s birthday event was the respectful thing to do since Bishop Jakes’ sermons are aired on the Revolt Network,” Williams explained.
“We both greeted the family, Bishop Jakes recorded a brief celebratory birthday video and left immediately to take our other scheduled meetings,” Williams added. “Any accusation to the contrary is wholly unsubstantiated, unverified, and false.”
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