Diddy’s attorney, Marc Agnifilo, released a statement regarding the sexual assault lawsuit filed by a Michigan inmate against the Bad Boy records mogul.
On Monday (September 9), Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone awarded Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith a $100 million default judgment after Diddy failed to resolve the lawsuit.
But Agnifilo and Didi’s team found that Cardero-Smith had filed multiple civil lawsuits against public figures, pastors, the Department of Corrections and others.
“This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the past 26 years,” Agnifilo told AllHipHop. “His resume now includes time in prison for committing fraud in court as Mr Coombs has never heard of him, let alone been subject to any proceedings. Mr Coombs looks forward to a speedy dismissal of this conviction.
Cardero-Smith claimed that Dee Dee drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party in Detroit in 1997. He claimed they met when Cardero-Smith worked at a Detroit-area restaurant. Cardero-Smith further claimed that Diddy visited him in jail and offered him $2.3 million to drop the case. The visitation records he provided showed Diddy’s name but admitted he rejected the offer. He is serving an unrelated sentence at the Ernest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights.
At a hearing in August, Anzalone issued an order prohibiting Diddy from selling assets that could be used to pay for any potential losses from Cardro-Smith’s lawsuit. He filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and/or preliminary injunction to prevent Diddy from selling his Los Angeles mansion and other properties.
“[Diddy] Cardero-Smith told the judge he would ask me to close the case and what happened to me because he said there were other things going on in his life that needed his money. He went on to say that Diddy said “he wanted to sell everything” and then offered him $2.3 million to “make what happened to me go away.”
According to Metro Times , the $100 million verdict may be the largest ever awarded to a non-attorney and currently incarcerated prisoner.
