Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is facing a default judgment in a sexual assault lawsuit. After a missed court date, a judge ordered him to pay a litigious inmate $100 million.
Sean “Diddy” Combs must pay $100 million to a litigious Michigan inmate who sued him for sexual assault, a judge ordered Monday.
Lenawee County circuit court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone decided that starting in October, Combs will have to pay $10 million a month for 10 months to accuser Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith. The order is part of a default settlement reached during Monday’s virtual hearing, from which the Bad Boy Records founder was absent.
Cardello-Smith, 51, is currently serving time in the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility for numerous criminal sexual offenses, according to a Michigan inmate database. In June he filed a civil suit alleging that Combs, 54, drugged and sexually assaulted him when he was working as a “restaurant and hospitality industry employee” during a Detroit party in 1997, according to Detroit Metro Times, which cites court documents.
Cardello-Smith reportedly accused Combs of touching him on his left buttock and allegedly offering him a spiked drink, according to TMZ. After he accepted the drink, Cardello-Smith passed out, TMZ said.
