Sean (Diddy) Combs sexual assault accuser awarded $100 million US in lawsuit
Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2024 10:34 am
Sean (Diddy) Combs sexual assault accuser awarded $100 million US in lawsuit
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Rapper and record producer Sean (Diddy) Combs, shown at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, failed to appear at a virtual hearing on Monday. As a result, a default judgment was issued in a Michigan court ordering him to pay his accuser $100 million US. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/The Associated Press)
A Michigan inmate who accused Sean (Diddy) Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a party almost 30 years ago has been awarded a $100-million US judgment against the rapper and record producer.
Derrick Lee Smith, 51, won the multimillion-dollar judgment by default in Lenawee County Circuit Court during a virtual hearing on Monday after Combs, 54, failed to show up.
A lawyer for Combs said the rapper would move to have the judgment dismissed.
Read more here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/d ... -1.7319418
Rapper and record producer Sean (Diddy) Combs, shown at the 2022 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, failed to appear at a virtual hearing on Monday. As a result, a default judgment was issued in a Michigan court ordering him to pay his accuser $100 million US. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/The Associated Press)
A Michigan inmate who accused Sean (Diddy) Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a party almost 30 years ago has been awarded a $100-million US judgment against the rapper and record producer.
Derrick Lee Smith, 51, won the multimillion-dollar judgment by default in Lenawee County Circuit Court during a virtual hearing on Monday after Combs, 54, failed to show up.
A lawyer for Combs said the rapper would move to have the judgment dismissed.