A would-be, multimillion-dollar RICO lawsuit towards Janice Combs, mom to Diddy, has been dismissed.
In a courtroom doc considered by Complex, it’s famous that the claims towards Combs beneath the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act are “dismissed with prejudice,” which suggests the dismissal transfer is everlasting and the case can’t be introduced again to a courtroom.
Also famous within the docs are that beforehand made claims on the state degree are dismissed and that the plaintiff “shall take nothing, and defendants shall recover their costs of suit.”
The movement to dismiss had been subject personal behalf of Combs, Janice Combs Publishing LLC, and Janice Combs Publishing Holdings Inc. The plaintiff within the since-dismissed swimsuit, as famous in earlier reviews, was Deon Best, who initially sued Diddy’s mom in January in reference to claims of an effort to “defraud him” of varied rights and revenues, per TMZ.
The vital authorized win for Janice Combs comes forward of Diddy’s sentencing after a cut up verdict in his much-discussed New York case. As beforehand reported, Diddy was in the end convicted on prostitution-related expenses whereas being discovered not responsible of the extra critical racketeering and intercourse trafficking counts.
Complex’s Shawn Setaro lately shared a deep-dive on how lengthy, precisely, Diddy may find yourself being sentenced to in reference to these expenses. See it right here. The Bad Boy Records mogul’s sentencing, for now, is slated for subsequent month.
Ahead of the sentencing, letters to the choose overseeing the case have been made public, together with one from Yung Miami. In her letter, the City Girls rapper known as Diddy “a good man” who was “loving, genuine, supportive, and always encouraging” throughout her relationship with him.
“I want to be clear that I cannot speak on or defend anything that may have happened before I met Sean Combs,” Yung Miami stated in her letter, seen in full right here. “I do not condone any wrongdoing. I can only speak from my personal experience and the man I’ve come to know over the past four years.”