Diddy has been slapped with a probably historic $100 million judgment after dealing with a sexual assault lawsuit from a Michigan inmate.
On Monday (September 9), Lenawee County Circuit Court docket Choose Anna Marie Anzalone awarded the judgment to Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, per the Detroit Metro Occasions. The outlet notes that Cardello-Smith has an extended historical past of submitting civil lawsuits.
Cardello-Smith reportedly accused Diddy of drugging and sexually assaulting him at a Detroit celebration in 1997. He informed the publication that he goes “approach again” with Diddy and met him whereas working within the Detroit hospitality trade.
Cardello-Smith additional alleged that Diddy visited him in jail and provided him $2.3 million to drop the case. Nonetheless, Cardello-Smith claims he rejected the provide and offered information displaying Diddy’s title within the visitation report.
In an August listening to, Choose Anzalone issued an order stopping Diddy from promoting property that could possibly be used to pay for any potential damages ensuing from Cardello-Smith’s lawsuit.
On the digital listening to in August, Cardello-Smith filed a movement for a short lived restraining order and or a preliminary injunction to cease Diddy from promoting his Los Angeles mansion and different properties.
Diddy Visited Cardello-Smith In Jail
Cardello-Smith claimed he had a “stay one-on-one” go to with Diddy and one other assembly with the embattled mogul’s monetary adviser on the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights.
“[Diddy] acknowledged that he would make me a suggestion to finish the case and what occurred to me due to different issues that he acknowledged he has happening in his life that require his cash proper now,” Cardello-Smith informed the choose. He continued stating that Diddy mentioned “he desires to promote all the things off,” earlier than providing him $2.3 million “to permit what occurred to me to go away.”
Cardello-Smith mentioned Diddy informed him he can be promoting his property. “He did it the day after I served him the go well with,” he added, presumably referring to reviews Diddy put his L.A. property available on the market for $70 million.
Moreover, Cardello-Smith alleged Diddy informed him he wouldn’t file a response to the lawsuit and would have “a greater probability” coping with a default judgment.
“I mentioned, ‘So that you need to disguise your cash,” and cease him from receiving a doable monetary judgment. “He just about mentioned, ‘Yeah. You understand how we get down.’”
Choose Anzalone issued the preliminary injunction quickly prohibiting Diddy from promoting the property and listed a listening to for September 9.
Nonetheless, as Diddy failed to look, Choose Anzalone awarded the $100 million default judgment in Cardello-Smith’s favor. Based on Metro Occasions, the sum is presumably the most important awarded to a non-attorney and a at the moment incarcerated inmate in historical past.
