Aaron Corridor is evading authorized papers, prompting Liza Gardner—who accused Corridor and Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexual assault—to request serving him via newspaper notices after months of unsuccessful makes an attempt to trace him down.
Gardner, represented by legal professional Tyrone Blackburn, has diligently tried to serve Corridor since submitting the lawsuit in November 2023.
The go well with accuses Corridor and Combs of sexually assaulting Gardner when she was 16, following an MCA Information occasion in 1990 or 1991.
Gardner alleges Combs gave her alcohol and compelled her into sexual acts at Corridor’s New Jersey condominium. She additional claims Aaron Corridor then “burst into the room” and assaulted her as nicely, leaving her “shocked and traumatized.”
Blackburn said clearly why Gardner now seeks to serve Corridor via newspapers.
“I consider that service by publication is now the one remaining possibility to offer discover of this lawsuit to Mr. Corridor. Now we have successfully exhausted all cheap strategies of finding him. I’m unaware of any extra addresses, places, or individuals we may depend on to get the summons on to Corridor. Due to this fact, publication in newspapers is being sought as a final resort.”
Court docket paperwork element Gardner’s in depth efforts to find Aaron Corridor. Course of servers tried to serve him at a View Park, California handle on June 12, 2024, however neighbors and present residents confirmed Corridor had moved.
One other try on June 20, 2024, at a Tarzana, California residence additionally failed, with the present home-owner stating Corridor had relocated two years prior.
Gardner expanded her search to Ohio, trying service twice at a Cleveland handle in early September 2024. On September 5, nobody answered the door and the next day, the occupant who responded denied realizing Corridor.
Additional investigative efforts recognized a Woodland Hills, California condominium as Corridor’s potential last-known residence.
Gardner’s group tried rush service there on November 6, 2024, and once more in January 2025 after submitting an amended grievance, however Corridor remained elusive.
With Corridor’s present location unknown and attainable ties to Georgia and California, Gardner now seeks court docket approval to publish notices in newspapers circulating in each states.
The lawsuit, filed beneath New York’s Grownup Survivors Act—which supplied a one-year window for survivors to file claims—additionally names MCA Inc., Common Music Group and different entities as defendants.
Former co-defendant DeVanté Swing of Jodeci, initially accused of witnessing the assault with out intervening, was voluntarily dismissed from the go well with with out prejudice in January 2025.
