Gloria Estefan’s husband Emilio threatened to sue one in all Sean “Diddy” Combs’ accusers over accusations associated to an alleged “freak off” celebration at Diddy’s Miami dwelling.
“They’re going to have some explaining to do,” Gloria, 67, advised TMZ on Saturday, August 23. “I wasn’t apprehensive about it. There was no reduction wanted. It’s simply fantasy!”
The accusations concerned an alleged incident that occurred at a celebration for Diddy’s son Christian Combs in 2015. (Diddy and the Estefans had been neighbors in Miami’s Star Island group, with Gloria and Emilio promoting a house to the rapper in 2021.)
In April, Manzaro Joseph filed a lawsuit alleging that he was transported through a tunnel below Estefan’s dwelling to Diddy’s property, the place he was sexually assaulted and subjected to “degrading and non-consensual acts.” The swimsuit initially named Emilio as a defendant, alongside Diddy, as a result of the sufferer was allegedly transferred by way of a again gate on the Estefans’ property.
In accordance with Joseph, Gloria noticed him in a nasty state and wished to name an ambulance, however Emilio moved his spouse away from the scene. The courtroom finally dismissed all allegations towards Emilio on July 24 however allowed Joseph further time to amend his lawsuit.
Chatting with TMZ on Saturday, Gloria mentioned that she and her husband had “nothing to do” with the allegations towards Diddy. She instructed they had been “thrown in” on the lawsuit just because they lived close to the disgraced mogul in Star Island.
Whereas talking to the outlet, her husband Emilio, 72, pointed to alleged inconsistencies within the accuser’s story, comparable to mentioning that Jay-Z and Beyoncé had been additionally current. (Jay-Z and Beyoncé had been faraway from the lawsuit in April 2025 when their attorneys provided documentation that they weren’t in Miami on the time of the alleged assault, in line with Folks.)
“We weren’t in Miami [either]. We had been right here in New York,” Emilio insisted.
Emilio argued that it was not even attainable to assemble a tunnel on Star Island as a result of water runs under the neighborhood.
Emilio Estefan and Gloria Estefan attend Gloria Estefan in Might 2025. Romain Maurice/Getty Photographs
“We’re going to need to [file] a lawsuit towards them as a result of we work exhausting to develop a fame for a few years,” Emilio mentioned. “We now have a household, and it hurts the children generally, what they hear.”
He went on, “I hope individuals understand … individuals should be extra cautious once they do one thing like that as a result of it actually hurts lots of people. The entire followers, the whole lot, [were] all very involved. I used to be not involved as a result of it’s ridiculous.”
Us Weekly solely reported on August 5 that Gloria penned an announcement to the courtroom through which she vehemently denied that Emilio performed any function within the alleged incident. She defined {that a} member of the family and his toddler lived within the dwelling from 2012 to 2019, and that strangers couldn’t have handed by way of the property “after midnight in early April 2015” with out her being notified.
“At no time was there ever any ‘tunnel’ between the 2 homes, at the very least not whereas we owned [the home sold to Diddy], and based mostly on a few years of expertise with the Metropolis of Miami Seashore, I imagine this reality may have been simply verified by way of the general public data of the Metropolis of Miami Seashore,” she wrote. “I used to be by no means in [Diddy’s] home and [Diddy] was by no means in both our residence or household home, besides after [Diddy] bought the household home in 2021.”
Diddy’s lawyer additionally denied all accusations by saying: “This grievance demonstrates the wicked lengths plaintiffs will journey to garner headlines in pursuit of a payday. No sane particular person studying this grievance may credit score this story. [Diddy] appears to be like ahead to having his day in courtroom the place these lies – and the perverse motives of those that advised them – will likely be revealed.”
Joseph’s lawsuit is separate from Diddy’s federal trial in New York Metropolis, the place he was acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering in July. He was discovered responsible of two counts of transportation to interact in prostitution and will withstand 20 years in jail.
If you happen to or somebody you realize has been sexually assaulted, contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
