It is said that Diddy will have to pay a huge amount of money.
Update: Marc Agnifilo, Diddy’s lawyer, has since said this about the verdict: “This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator who has been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping over the last 26 years.” He has now lied to the court from jail, since Mr. Combs has never heard of him and hasn’t even been served with a lawsuit. Mr. Combs is looking forward to getting this ruling thrown out quickly.
A Michigan prisoner named Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith has accused the Bad Boy boss of sexual assaulting him at a party in Detroit in 1997. According to reports, Diddy will have to pay him $100 million as a default ruling. News sources say that the decision was made by Judge Anna Marie Anzalone of the Lenawee County Circuit Court on Monday. The new information comes after Cardello-Smith asked for a preliminary order to stop Diddy from selling his properties, like the Los Angeles mansion he just put on the market. In March, agents from Homeland Security searched the house.
Cardello-Smith said in a previous hearing that Diddy had visited him in jail to try to get him to agree to settle the case. The Detroit Metro Times says he showed papers that had Diddy’s name on the list of people who could visit. As reported by AllHipHop, he told the judge, “[Diddy] said he would make me an offer to end the case and what happened to me because he has other things in his life that need his money right now.” He also said Diddy told him “he wants to sell everything off” and offered to pay him $2.3 million to drop the case.
Cardello-Smith said of the man who put his Los Angeles home on the market, “He did it the day after I served him the suit.” He also said Diddy admitted that giving in to the default ruling would be easier for him than fighting the case. “So you want to hide your money?” Cardello-Smith remembered asking Diddy. “Yeah,” Diddy is said to have replied. “You know how we feel.”