Diddy $100M Lawsuit Loss Set Aside By Judge As Case Continues
Diddy has one much less factor to fret about amid his mounting authorized points, as a choose has tossed his $100 million default judgment to the aspect – for now.
As beforehand reported, Diddy (actual identify Sean Combs) was sued by 51-year-old Michigan inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith final month, claiming the embattled mogul drugged and sexually assaulted him at a celebration he was working at in Detroit in 1997. He then filed a restraining order towards Combs to stop him from promoting belongings that may very well be used to pay for the lawsuit.
When Diddy failed to indicate as much as the court docket date final week, he was hit with a default judgment – which he instantly filed an emergency movement to overturn.
And on Wednesday (September 18), TMZ confirmed that Judge Anna Marie Anzalone made the decision to set the judgment apart for now after agreeing that Diddy was by no means correctly served. She additionally threw out the non permanent restraining order, noting Diddy will doubtless win the case off the premise of statute of limitations alone.
The outlet experiences that Diddy’s subsequent step will doubtless be to file a movement to dismiss the case completely.
Meanwhile, after being denied bail following his arrest on intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs, Diddy gave it one other shot — and now he’s misplaced his second attempt as properly.
On Wednesday (September 18), the embattled mogul appeared in entrance of Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. to ask but once more for his launch as he and his staff put together for trial. Judge Carter turned down the request, per TMZ, as a result of “the government has proven the defendant is a danger. The bail package is insufficient even on risk of flight.”
Both sides made arguments in entrance of Carter, with authorities lawyer Emily Johnson saying that Diddy had reached out repeatedly to alleged victims, in a minimum of one case making an attempt to persuade the sufferer that their sexual encounters had been consensual. Johnson targeted on the truth that the bail bundle introduced by Diddy’s staff didn’t, to her thoughts, have sufficient in it to stop potential obstruction of witnesses.
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Diddy’s legal professional Marc Agnifilo introduced his aspect afterwards. He promised to have a personal investigation agency monitor Diddy’s home, and talked about, per the earlier choose’s considerations about Diddy’s drug abuse and anger points, that his consumer has gone by means of rehab.
Diddy’s revised bail bundle, introduced hours earlier than the listening to, provided extra concessions if he was launched: no non-family feminine guests and weekly drug testing.
The bundle was barely modified from the $50,000,000 one his staff had proposed — and {that a} completely different choose had rejected — a day earlier.
