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(NewsNation) —Sean “Diddy” Combs has been deed with a monolithic $100 cardinal default judgement aft failing to quality intersexual battle allegations made successful suit by a Michigan inmate.
Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, filed a suit accusing Combs of drugging and sexually assaulting him astatine a enactment successful Detroit successful 1997.
Cardello-Smith worked arsenic a edifice and had been a hospitality manufacture worker erstwhile helium met the euphony producer, the suit alleges.
Combs was owed to look successful Lenawee County Circuit Court for a virtual proceeding connected Monday but erstwhile helium failed to amusement up, a justice awarded Cardello-Smith a multi-million default judgment.
Default judgments are issued when a suspect fails to respond to a tribunal summons oregon look successful court.
Combs’ lawyer denied that the euphony mogul knows Cardello-Smith successful a connection to The Guardian.
“His resume present includes committing a fraud connected the tribunal from prison, arsenic Mr Combs has ne'er heard of him fto unsocial been served with immoderate lawsuit,” lawyer Marc Agnifilo said, adding that helium “looks guardant to having this judgement swiftly dismissed.”
NewsNation has reached retired to Combs' lawyer for further comment.
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 25: Honoree Sean "Diddy" Combs attends the Pre-GRAMMY Gala and GRAMMY Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Sean "Diddy" Combs connected January 25, 2020 successful Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)Cardello-Smith included situation installation accusation successful his suit which showed Combs’s sanction logged into the visitation grounds and said the sojourn was to connection him $2.3 cardinal dollars to disregard the lawsuit, which the inmate rejected.
Cardello-Smith is incarcerated astatine the Earnest C Brooks correctional installation aft aggregate erstwhile convictions of transgression intersexual misconduct arsenic good arsenic 1 of kidnapping.
The Detroit Metro Times has described Cardello-Smith arsenic a “self-taught pupil of civilian and transgression statutes” and “a Michigan inmate known for his agelong past of challenging the judicial strategy with civilian lawsuits."
The justice acceptable retired a outgo docket of $10 cardinal per month, starting October 1.
The latest suit comes successful a agelong enactment of ineligible woes the euphony mogul is already facing.
Department of Homeland Security agents conducted the raids connected March 25 astatine Combs’ multimillion-dollar mansion successful Los Angeles and his Miami waterfront home.
Diddy’s ineligible squad was notified earlier this summertime that helium was the taxable of a national transgression investigation.
The shaper besides faces a mounting list of civilian lawsuits that allege maltreatment and intersexual battle by aggregate victims spanning implicit 30 years.
In May, video surfaced of the rapper attacking ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura successful a edifice hallway successful 2016. Combs antecedently denied unit toward Ventura erstwhile she sued him past year, but he aboriginal apologized connected societal media erstwhile the video leaked.
Combs has denied each the allegations.
