FoxNews: Sean 'Diddy' Combs ordered to pay $100 million to sexual assault accuser

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Sean 'Diddy' Combs ordered to pay $100 million to sexual assault accuser

Sean "Diddy" Combs was ordered to pay one of his sexual assault accusers $100 million in a default judgment. The rapper plans to try and have the judgment dismissed....                        ...                        ...                            ...A judge granted a default judgment against You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login for $100 million Monday after the rapper failed to appear at a court hearing.......Combs was ordered to pay Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, $100 million by Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone, Fox News Digital confirmed. A court can grant a default judgment if a party fails to meet certain obligations within a specific time frame.......Cardello-Smith originally filed his You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login on June 10. The Michigan inmate requested a temporary restraining order and the court granted his motion after Diddy failed to appear at the hearing on Aug. 7.......Cardello-Smith appeared at all court hearings virtually, according to the docket.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Diddy's legal team plans to have the judgment dismissed......."This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator, who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years," Marc Agnifilo, attorney for Combs, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "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."......Cardello-Smith accused Diddy of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a Detroit-area party in 1997, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.......He claimed to have met the "I'll Be Missing You" singer while working as a restaurant and hospitality employee in Detroit.......Cardello-Smith produced visitation records for the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login showing Diddy had visited the inmate. Cardello-Smith alleges that the 54-year-old record producer offered him $2.3 million to dismiss the lawsuit, according to the Metro Times.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Diddy faces a mountain of legal claims after multiple women accused him of sexual assault beginning in November 2023. Cassie, legally known as Casandra Ventura, alleged she endured "over a decade" of Diddy's "violent behavior and disturbed demands" in a lawsuit. Combs and his ex-girlfriend settled the matter a day later outside of court.......Three more women came forward with claims just before New York's Adult Survivors Act expired in December.......Diddy was also sued by music producer You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login in February. Jones accused the rapper of forcing him to perform sexual acts with prostitutes in his lawsuit obtained by Fox News Digital.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login raided Diddy's homes in March related to a federal human trafficking investigation, Fox News Digital previously confirmed. Since the raids, Diddy has been hit with more allegations of sexual assault.......In a lawsuit filed in May, Crystal McKinney claimed she was attacked in Combs' recording studio after having dinner with the music mogul and an un-named fashion designer at Cipriani Downtown in New York during a Men's Fashion Week event in 2003.......Two months later, a former adult film star You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login claiming she was groomed into sex trafficking by the music producer as an employee at his Labor Day White Party.......Diddy has denied all sexual assault allegations.......Fox News Digital's Tracy Wright contributed to this report....

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