Diddy’s Mom Defends Mogul In First Assertion Since His Arrest
Diddy’s mom, Janice Combs, has damaged her silence on her son’s arrest and mounting authorized troubles.
In a considerable assertion offered to Fort Lauderdale-based Lawyer Natlie G. Figger on Sunday (October 6), Combs insisted folks have been leaping to conclusions and never giving him the possibility to defend himself. She additionally famous her son isn’t “excellent” and “made errors in his previous.” Nonetheless, she doesn’t assume he’s getting a good shake.
“My son shouldn’t be the monster they’ve painted him to be,” she mentioned partially. “Watching the world make jokes and snigger at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It’s actually agonizing to observe the world flip towards my son so shortly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his facet or affording him the chance to current his facet. These lies thrown at him are motivated by these searching for a monetary achieve, and never justice.”
Combs’ assertion arrived days after a Houston-based legal professional revealed he was representing 120 victims of Diddy’s alleged sexual misconduct and the declare a intercourse tape involving Diddy and a male A-list celeb is being shopped round to varied networks.
Lawyer Ariel Mitchell-Kidd, who’s representing a number of of Diddy’s alleged sexual assault victims, advised Information Nation she thinks it’s getting very near turning into public, except the A-lister purchases it and pulls “a catch and kill.” She additionally addressed the New York Put up article that claimed the celeb within the video is “horrified” to study it’s up on the market.
“From what I’m listening to, I believe so,” she mentioned when requested if it was near being leaked. “I’m listening to whispers there may be at the very least one main community, presumably two, in a bidding conflict for that buy. Until that particular person comes ahead and purchases the video themselves, which is basically the objective of the individuals who have the video, at this level, if that particular person doesn’t need to buy it, it’s going to go on the open market.”
Diddy was arrested at Manhattan resort on September 16. He pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. He stays behind bars on the Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn.