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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs loses $100m default judgment over sexual assault allegations (www.theguardian.com)

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The hip-hop mogul failed to respond to lawsuit against him over alleged sexual assault in Detroit in 1997

A man who accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of sexually assaulting him has won a $100m judgment after the rapper, music producer and businessman failed to contest the allegations in a civil courthouse in Michigan.

Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, secured the remarkably large judgment after filing a lawsuit that described how he encountered Combs while working in the restaurant and hospitality industry near Detroit.

According to the Detroit Metro Times, Cardello-Smith alleged that he was both drugged and sexually assaulted by Combs at a party in Detroit in 1997, just one claim amid a broader pattern of alleged sexual abuse and other misconduct by the three-time Grammy winner once also known as P Diddy, Puff Daddy and Love.

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 38 points 1 week ago

Nice victim shaming attempt, when his own record since his alleged Combs assault plays no part in this (his first offense was 1998 - which is a year after the alleged assault). An assault like this can mess people up, although that doesn't excuse his wrongs, but they may help explain his mindset.

You also left out 2 of the more key parts of your cherry picking -

The award was issued Monday 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.

A judges don't usually hand out restraining orders like candy on Halloween, and I assume when the person asking is currently incarcerated even less so?

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

So Combs went to the jail himself to talk with this guy instead of sending a lawyer on his behalf, interesting that.