R&B singer Aaron Hall has reportedly gone off the map, according to court filings from Liza Gardner, the woman suing both Hall and Sean "Diddy" Combs for an alleged sexual assault. Hall is reportedly avoiding being served legal papers, according to Gardner, who says after months of attempts to locate him, his legal team was granted the ability to serve him via publication in a newspaper.
Gardner, represented by the attorney Tyrone Blackburn, has been after Hall since she filed her lawsuit in November 2023. According to the lawsuit, Hall and Combs raped her when she was only 16 after attending an MCA Records function in 1990 or 1991. Gardner alleges that Combs provided her with alcohol and took her back to Hall's New Jersey apartment, where the two men raped her. She calls Hall's actions "shocking and traumatizing" in particular.
Gardner's legal team has repeatedly attempted to serve Hall with legal papers, to no avail. Blackburn says they have "exhausted all reasonable methods" of locating him and have applied to court to get permission to serve him in the paper.
Court records detail an extensive, months-long search for Hall across several states. Process servers first tried to contact him at an address in View Park, California, on June 12, 2024, but Hall's neighbors said he had moved. Another follow-up try at a separate California home in Tarzana on June 20, 2024, also came up empty, with the present homeowner saying Hall moved out two years prior.
The search then spread to Ohio, where Gardner's team attempted to serve Hall at a Cleveland address twice in early September 2024. Nobody answered the door on Sept. 5, and the next day, an occupant claimed to know nothing about Hall's location.
Investigators subsequently used Hall's last known location, an apartment in Woodland Hills, California. Rush service attempts in November 2024 and January 2025 were unsuccessful, however. Gardner is now asking a court to approve the publication of legal notices in newspapers in California and Georgia, where Hall is believed to have ties, but no current address has been confirmed.
Gardner's suit, which is filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, names MCA Inc., Universal Music Group, and others as defendants, too, saying they contributed to the enabling of the alleged abuse.
DeVanté Swing, of the former R&B group Jodeci, was named in the lawsuit for allegedly witnessing the assault as it took place and failing to intervene but was voluntarily dismissed from the case without prejudice in January 2025. Hall's location remains unknown, so the case is still being developed. Whether he evades that lawsuit or has fallen off the grid is unclear, but Gardner's legal team isn't backing down anytime soon.
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