Stefon Diggs sued Christopher Griffith in November 2025, accusing him of falsely saying Diggs had drugged and sexually assaulted him. Griffith answered with a counterclaim of his own, alleging that Diggs sexually assaulted him in 2023.
The fight is now one of several civil cases circling Diggs, who is already being pressed by separate claims tied to Nigel King. That matters because the new filing does not just add another accusation; it puts Diggs in the middle of overlapping litigation that keeps his name attached to courtroom allegations even as he tries to move past them.
Diggs has denied Griffith’s accusation. So has the broader dispute become a contest over credibility, with each side accusing the other of serious misconduct and neither side laying out a public record that settles the matter on its face. In that way, the case follows the same pattern that has made other disputes around Diggs so combustible: sharp claims, counterclaims, and details that are more damaging than clarifying.
That pattern is not limited to Griffith. Nigel King has also sued Diggs, saying Diggs falsely accused him of stealing a Ferrari and that Diggs’s friends attacked him. King said he was never identified as a suspect in the theft, yet Diggs began accusing him in December 2024 after King arranged for the car to be transported to Houston in July 2024 and it later disappeared. A year later, King said, one of Diggs’s friends punched him in the face. Diggs asked that the case not move forward until the other defendants were properly served, and they have since been served.
The result is a legal loadout that keeps widening rather than narrowing. Diggs has multiple civil lawsuits to handle in 2026, and the Griffith case now adds a direct accusation of sexual assault to the mix. Unless the parties settle or a court dismisses the claims, the dispute will keep moving through the system while Diggs tries to defend himself in public and in court at the same time.
That pressure lands while Diggs is still trying to frame himself as an elite player. He recently claimed there is no WR2 in the NFL better than him, and he finished his first season with the Patriots with 1,013 receiving yards, his seventh 1,000-yard season in a 32-year career. But the football numbers sit beside the lawsuits now, not above them, and the legal cases are the story that keeps threatening to define the season around him.
