Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs won’t have to pay $100 million to an inmate as a judge tosses out last week’s default judgment. He still faces a sex-trafficking indictment.
Sean “Diddy” Combs may be facing the heat of a damning sex-trafficking indictment, but the disgraced music mogul also landed a legal win in Michigan.
A Lenawee County circuit court judge decided Wednesday to set aside the default judgment that required the Bad Boy Records founder to pay $100 million to a Michigan inmate who sued Diddy over a sexual assault. Last week, Judge Anna Marie Anzalone had ordered Combs, 54, to pay accuser Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith $10 million a month starting in October after the mogul failed to show for a civil court hearing.
Attorneys for Combs filed an 83-page motion on Sept. 13 to vacate the judgment, alleging that Cardello-Smith, 51, did not properly serve Combs in accordance with Michigan law. The motion also claimed that the rapper had learned about the lawsuit only from reports about the large default settlement.
A legal representative for Combs did not comment to The Times on Wednesday. The Times was unable to contact Cardello-Smith, who filed his case against Combs without an attorney.
