CJ Wallace‘s victory lap against Jonathan Hay could be short-lived if Diddy faces new charges, as Hay asks a judge to delay damages.
In a filing obtained by AllHipHop, Hay asks a federal judge in Tampa to put the case on hold. Los Angeles prosecutors are still reviewing the sexual assault allegations Hay made against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Wallace won a major ruling in August, but a hearing to decide how much Hay might owe him remains ahead.
Hay says that hearing could force him to discuss alleged assaults in open court before prosecutors decide whether to file charges.
He also says the court could require him to hand over records tied to the police investigations. Even if prosecutors charge Diddy, that alone would not undo Wallace’s default win in the separate Florida case.
“The statements [Wallace] attacks concern events in Los Angeles in 2020 and 2021 involving Christopher ‘CJ’ Wallace, Willie Mack, and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Those same events are in criminal filings,” Hay wrote. “[Hay] is the complaining witness in that review. A damages hearing in this Court will require the parties to try the truth of the same incidents the District Attorney is reviewing.”
The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office confirmed in June that the LAPD and county sheriff’s department had each submitted a sexual assault investigation involving one alleged victim.
Hay says he is the alleged victim in both police reports now before Los Angeles prosecutors. His filing quotes the office’s response: “We are reviewing the case.”
His motion also notes that prosecutors had announced no decision on charges when he filed it in September.
Diddy is already serving a 50-month federal sentence after a jury convicted him of transporting people for prostitution. Jurors acquitted him of racketeering and sex trafficking; the Los Angeles review concerns separate allegations.
“A damages hearing will put on the public record the same narrative, the same dates, and the same witnesses. The District Attorney’s office has not said the review is closed. Until it does, this Court should not hold the mini-trial that default judgment now requires,” Hay wrote in a second passage explaining why he wants the delay.
The dispute began with Ready to Dance, a remix project based on songs by Wallace’s father, The Notorious B.I.G. Hay worked on that music with Wallace and producer Willie Mack during their collaboration on the remix project.
Wallace says the team shelved the rest of the project after the first single failed to take off.
Hay later accused Diddy of masturbating into one of Biggie’s shirts during a 2020 meeting and forcing him to perform oral sex during an encounter in 2021.
Hay alleges Wallace helped bring him to the 2021 meeting where he says Diddy assaulted him. In a CNN interview, Hay said of Diddy, “He was in a rage. And that’s when he violated me.”
Wallace has denied helping Diddy assault Hay and says he played no role in the alleged events. He also says Hay falsely claimed the two had sexual contact, that Wallace attended Diddy’s parties and that he witnessed crimes there.
Diddy’s lawyer has said the mogul “categorically denies as false and defamatory all claims that he sexually abused anyone.” Prosecutors have not filed criminal charges against Diddy over the allegations Hay made to police.
In July 2025, Hay sued both Diddy and Wallace in California over the alleged encounters. Wallace then sued Hay for defamation in Florida that November, saying the producer spread false claims after the music deal collapsed. Hay disputes Wallace’s timeline and points in the new filing to emails and production records he says show work continued into 2021.
AllHipHop reported that Wallace tried to deliver the Florida lawsuit to Hay 17 times through three process servers. Wallace also hired a private investigator and ultimately served him through Florida’s secretary of state.
Hay said he never received proper notice, but Judge Mary Scriven rejected that explanation on August 31 and refused to erase the default against him.
That ruling was a win for Wallace, but it did not set damages or decide whether Hay’s allegations against Diddy were true. Hay now wants the court to wait for a charging decision before holding the damages hearing.
If Scriven rejects a full pause, he asks her to keep evidence about the alleged assaults and his contact with investigators out of that hearing.
Wallace opposes the request, according to Hay’s account of a September 17 meeting with his lawyers.
Hay proposes a report to the court every 60 days, or within 14 days after prosecutors make a public decision. The court had set the damages hearing for October 8 before Hay filed his request to delay it.
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