Chef Suing Diddy Over Post-Sex Meals Must Take Action In Private

Sean (Diddy) Combs won a legal round Thursday in his bitter battle with the personal chef who says she was forced to serve the naked mogul “post-coital” cuisine.

A Los Angeles judge ruled chef Cindy Rueda signed a “plain vanilla arbitration agreement” when she took her job and must use private arbitration, not the courts, to pursue the sexual harassment lawsuit she filed in May.

Rueda attended the hearing but declined to speak with the Daily News.

Before the ruling, her lawyer, Cristal Cabrera, argued the arbitration pact was “unconscionable” and that Combs’ side had already threatened to countersue Rueda in New York.

“To be very clear, we have never threatened to haul her client into court in New York,” Combs' lawyer, Matt Hoffman, told the judge.

In her original lawsuit, Rueda said she regularly worked under harassing conditions and without adequate pay during her employment by rapper and entrepreneur Combs from January 2015 through May 2016.

“Plaintiff was regularly summoned by Mr. Combs to prepare and serve entrees and appetizers to him and his guests while Mr. Combs and/or his guests were engaged in or immediately following sexual activity,” her complaint filed May 8 said.

Rueda claimed once when she was summoned to serve Combs, now 47, a “post-coital meal,” he greeted her wearing nothing and asked “if she was attracted to or liked his naked body.”

She said another time, while she was in the kitchen, a male house guest approached “in the nude to ask her to look at and admire his genitals after he had engaged in sexual activity with another house guest.”

Rueda said she was “mortified” and complained to her manager.

She alleged her complaints caused her to be “lured” into a situation where she was accused of theft. She claimed Combs’ housekeeper approached her last year with a watch that she “represented she had found in the garbage can.”

“Iris asked plaintiff if she wanted it because it had been discarded,” Rueda claimed, saying she accepted the watch and later was accused of stealing it.

One of Combs’ lawyers scoffed at Rueda’s version of events in a June letter to her legal team demanding arbitration.

“(The) claim that she was ‘lured into a situation where she could be accused of theft and ultimately terminated’ is particularly outrageous,” lawyer Orin Snyder wrote.

He said Rueda engaged in grand theft of Combs’ luxury watch and that her “distortion” of the facts would leave her “credibility in tatters.”

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Elizabeth Allen White formally stayed Rueda’s lawsuit Thursday pending the outcome of private arbitration. She set a followup hearing for August 2018.

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