Update: Diddy Wins Fight To Have $100 Million Default Judgment Awarded To Sexual Assault Accuser Set Aside 

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Update: Diddy Wins Fight To Have $100 Million Default Judgment Awarded To Sexual Assault Accuser Set Aside

Update #3: (Sept. 18, 2024): Diddy’s lawyers will have some good news to give him while he’s behind bars.

Per court documents obtained by TMZ, a judge has agreed to set aside the $100 million judgment awarded to Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, who alleged he was sexually assaulted by Diddy in 1997. Cardello-Smith was awarded the default judgment as a result of Diddy not responding to the lawsuit. However, it was determined that the accuser failed to prove he effectively served the lawsuit in accordance with Michigan law. The temporary restraining order preventing Diddy from selling off any assets to cover damages was also tossed out by the judge. Now, the case will move forward as any other suit.

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Update #2 (Sept. 13, 2024): Diddy has filed a motion to vacate a $100 million judgment that was awarded to a man, Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, who alleged the Bad Boy Records founder sexually assaulted him in 1997.

According to reports, Diddy filed an emergency motion and claimed he was never served. And even if he was, the statute of limitations expired nearly 17 years before he filed his lawsuit.

Diddy’s attorneys claimed in court documents that he had no idea he was being sued until he saw the news plastered in headlines. They slam Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith as a convicted rapist and said he has a history of filing frivolous lawsuits. Specifically, they say his allegations against Diddy are “completely fabricated.”

Update (Sept. 10, 2024): Diddy plans to fight his recent court loss after all.

As recently reported, Diddy was ordered to fork over $100 Million in a default judgment after he failed to respond to a lawsuit from a man named Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith. The hefty award was granted during a court hearing that took place on Monday (Sept 9th) that Diddy skipped out on.

However, the record executive is now ready to push back against the verdict. In a statement shared with TMZ, attorneys for Diddy claimed,

“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. 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.”

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Original Story: (Sep 9, 2024): Not so good news for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. A Michigan inmate has been awarded a $100 million default judgment against Diddy, according to the Metro Times.

The award was issued Monday (Sept 9th) by Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone following a temporary restraining order granted to Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, against Combs in August.

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Combs allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted Cardello-Smith in 1997 at a party in Detroit, according to court records.

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Cardello-Smith, who crossed paths with Combs while working as a Detroit-area restaurant employee, is a self-taught student of civil and criminal statutes and is serving an unrelated sentence at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights.

Cardello-Smith produced prison facility information revealing Combs’s name logged into the visitation record. He says the founder of Bad Boy Records offered him 2.3 million dollars to dismiss the lawsuit, but Cardello-Smith rejected the offer.

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In the August hearing, Cardello-Smith told the court of a conversation in which he said he and Combs had directly discussed the lawsuit.

“You know how we get down” was Combs’s alleged response to Cardello-Smith’s threat to proceed with the action instead of accepting an out-of-court settlement.

Combs’ team has not commented publicly about this situation.