Diddy is pushing back against a lawsuit filed by a prisoner, calling it a “meritless attack.”
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s legal troubles are growing by leaps and bounds, making it difficult for his legal team to keep track of. In this case, a judge ruled on a default $100 million judgement against the rap mogul, prompting his attorneys to try and fight it. Combs is currently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center, MDC, in Brooklyn, facing federal charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.
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However, Diddy’s legal troubles in the civil courts have been multiplying as the federal case pushes ahead for a May 2025 trial. The lawsuits against the label executive are now in the double digits. They could reach triple digits if continue at the current pace, giving his attorneys a lot of ground to cover while preparing to defend him in the upcoming federal trial.
Michigan inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith filed a $400 million lawsuit against Diddy in June of this year, long before his arrest in September. Cardello-Smith claimed that Combs sexually assaulted him at a party in 1997. The Bad Boy Records founder did not reply to the lawsuit in court, and a judge reached a default judgement to the tune of $100 million.
Diddy is now pushing back against the complaint, which he calls a “meritless attack” on his character. “This man [Cardello-Smith] is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years,” Combs’s attorney Marc Agnifilo told TMZ in a prior statement while listing out Cardello-Smith’s lengthy criminal record as evidence of his trustworthiness.
Cardello-Smith also alleges that the billionaire businessman visited him in prison to negotiate a settlement. However, prison records contradict the claims, showing that Diddy never visited him.
The $100 million judgement was later vacated in September of this year. However, Diddy’s attorneys were not satisfied as they believed that Cardello-Smith would continue to pursue a case in court. “This barrage of fabricated claims must come to an end,” one of Diddy’s attorneys, David Fink, wrote. “Plaintiff’s frequent filings clearly indicate he has no intention of stopping his meritless attacks.”
Diddy’s attorneys are now pushing for the courts to block the inmate from filing future claims against him.
