December 24, 2023
In 2022, a video of T.D. Jakes at Puffy’s 53rd birthday party caused discussion on social media.
T.D. Jakes has responded to the viral claims about his attendance of Sean “Diddy” Combs alleged sex parties via a statement from 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.
According to Christian Post, Hora described the claims as false and baseless, saying, “Recent claims circulating on pockets of social media about Bishop T.D. Jakes are unequivocally false and baseless,” The Christian Post reported. Hora continued, saying 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 is due to 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 that he was sent an email from an unnamed source that alleges 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 containing footage of one of Puffy’s “sex parties” exists 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 alleges that the 16-year-old, whose family attended Jakes’s Dallas megachurch until 2015, was alleged forced by Bishop Jakes to perform a sex act on him. Additionally, the source alleges that the bishop paid the child’s family to keep it quiet, but now that he is an adult, he intends to seek justice of his own. 
Assisting in the proliferation of claims against Jakes was an additional viral TikTok video from a user by the name of jusnene, who stitched together video of the allegations. The video circulated on TikTok and Twitter/X, and it was viewed 11.1 million times on the latter platform by Dec. 22. 
In 2022, a video of T.D. 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.
Williams continued, “We both greeted the family, Bishop Jakes recorded a brief celebratory birthday video and left immediately to take our other scheduled meetings. Any accusation to the contrary is wholly unsubstantiated, unverified, and false.”
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