Within the newest authorized setback for Sean “Diddy” Combs, a Michigan inmate has received a $100 million sexual assault default judgment towards the embattled producer and entrepreneur. The embattled producer and entrepreneur has come underneath hearth over a number of sexual misconduct allegations over the previous yr.
The ruling was issued Monday by a Lenawee County Circuit Court docket decide after Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, obtained a A short lived restraining order towards Coombs, who the decide described as “a Michigan prisoner identified for his lengthy historical past.” The lawsuit alleges that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted Cardero-Smith at a celebration in Detroit in 1997; a decide set a month-to-month fee schedule of $10 million beginning Oct. 1.
The default judgment was entered after Coombs failed to point out up for a digital listening to on Monday.
Cardero-Smith met Combs whereas working at a Detroit-area restaurant, the lawsuit states. The 2 met a bunch of girls at a celebration and had been having intercourse with them when Cardero-Smith stated he felt a male hand touching him, which he claimed was Combs’s hand. He stated Combs later gave him a drink that was laced with alcohol, inflicting him to cross out. He stated he awoke and noticed Combs having intercourse with a girl; Combs allegedly advised him, “I did this to you.”
Cardero-Smith, a self-taught pupil of civil and legal code, is serving a jail sentence, based on the Metro Instances.
Cardero-Smith claimed that Combs supplied him $2.3 million in August to dismiss the lawsuit, however he declined and stated he would proceed authorized motion. Combs allegedly responded, “You understand how we received into this mess,” to which Cardero-Smith stated, “I do not agree with what you are doing.”
Whereas Combs has denied a lot of the a number of sexual misconduct allegations towards him, in June he admitted to assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura after video footage of the 2016 lodge incident leaked Ventura). He apologized and stated he “screwed up.”
A consultant for Combs didn’t instantly reply. sortRequest for remark.
