Diddy’s reputation in the public eye has taken a huge hit over the past few months as he has been sued by multiple people for alleged sexual assault and misconduct.
On Saturday (May 4), the tycoon shared a montage of a video that showed him warmly hugging loved ones, before cutting to footage of him standing on a beach with arms outstretched as he faced a storm.
This unsubtitled clip features audio from a 2022 sermon by Bishop TD Jakes, in which he said: “Not hysterical, not crazy, not anxious, not fretful, but steady in the storm — it looks bad, Looked tough but held steady in the storm.
Take a look below:
Earlier this year, Diddy claimed that he was the real victim when it came to the numerous accusations against him.
In a filing in late February, his attorney, Jonathan Davis, described the businessman and former Bad Boy Records president Harve Pierre as “a candidate for ‘cancellation in court. Victims of cultural ‘mania’.
Both men, along with an unnamed third assailant, were named as defendants in a lawsuit filed late last year by an anonymous woman who accused the trio of gang-raping her in 2003 when she was 17.
At the same time, it is clearly stated that “[d]”The defendants categorically deny the plaintiffs’ allegations,” and much of the aforementioned memo argued that the case should be dismissed because it was not filed in a timely manner.
“This lawsuit single-handedly damages the reputations of the individual defendants and their standing in the community and causes them to be victimized,” Davis said before making technical arguments, including a decision involving Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler. or the ‘cancel culture’ frenzy in the courts – based on unsubstantiated accusations long before any evidence has been presented.
The full text of the memo can be read here.
As part of the same case, Diddy recently brought in the big guns, hiring Bobby Sternheim to represent him in court instead of Davis.
According to court documents obtained by HipHopDX, Sternheim filed a notice to appear in the Southern District of New York in mid-February. A former president of the New York Women’s Lawyers Association, she made headlines for defending Ghislaine Maxwell in the notorious Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.
