A Michigan man received a $100m default judgment on Monday towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, after the music mogul failed to look in court docket to contest a civil go well with accusing him of a 1997 sexual assault.
Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, an inmate on the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility, accused Diddy in June of sexually assaulting him throughout a celebration in 1997 within the Detroit space.
According to court docket paperwork obtained by USA TodayCardello-Smith felt Combs touched his buttocks whereas the boys have been having intercourse with a gaggle of girls.
Combs allegedly noticed Cardello-Smith recoil, then later gave him a spiked drink.
“I stayed sitting there and began getting drowsy and started to pass out,” Cardello-Smith, who represented himself, wrote within the criticism. “Then Sean Combs said to me ‘I added a little something to it for you. I will get that from you anyway, one way or another.’”
During a listening to in August, Cardello-Smith claimed Combs visited him in jail and provided him $2.3m to finish the lawsuit, telling the 51-year-old, “You know how we get down.”
“Well, I disagree with how you get down,” Cardello-Smith, who’s reportedly serving out felony sexual conduct and kidnapping expenses, instructed the court docket he mentioned in response.
Under the judgment, the mogul should pay Cardello-Smith, $10m monthly starting in October, in response to Variety.
A lawyer for Diddy pushed again towards Monday’s resolution within the Lenawee County Circuit Court.
“This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years,” Marc Agnifilo instructed the Detroit Metro Times. “His resume now includes committing a fraud on the court from prison, as Mr. Combs has never heard of him let alone been served with any lawsuit. Mr. Combs looks forward to having this judgment swiftly dismissed.”
The Michigan case is the newest in a sequence of escalating allegations towards the music star.
In March, federal regulation enforcement raided Combs’s properties in Los Angeles and Miami in connection to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation.
Two months later, video footage from 2016 emerged exhibiting Combs violently attacking his former girlfriend, the singer Cassie, in a resort hallway, corroborating a number of allegations Cassie made towards Combs final yr in a 2023 go well with that was later settled.
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