“My son is just not the monster they’ve painted him to be”

Diddy‘s mom has issued a press release in response to the rapper’s sexual abuse allegations.

Janice Small Combs launched the assertion with the Hollywood Reporter yesterday (October 6) through her legal professional, Natlie G. Figgers. She stated it was “heartbreaking” to see her son “judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies”.

Referencing the footage obtained and printed by CNN in March, which appeared to point out the rapper beating his former associate, singer Cassie, she wrote: “My son might not have been fully truthful about sure issues, similar to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case.

“Typically, the reality and a lie turn out to be so carefully intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is outdoors the norm or is simply too difficult to be believed.”

Final month, the rap mogul was arrested in New York and charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transporting for prostitution, and has pleaded not responsible to all costs. He was denied bail and reportedly positioned on suicide watch whereas awaiting trial, with some stories prompt that he was not consuming in jail out of concern of being poisoned.

Diddy’s legal professional, Marc Agnifilo, later shared that an enchantment in opposition to the bail denial had been filed, with the musician promising that he gained’t be assembly any ladies aside from his relations, and that he would partake in weekly drug assessments if launched from jail. Diddy’s subsequent listening to is scheduled to happen on Wednesday (October 9).

Janice Combs’ assertion comes solely days after information emerged that Diddy is now additionally probably going through new lawsuits from round 120 folks accusing him of sexual abuse and assault, together with 25 minors.

Per Rolling Stone, Texan lawyer Tony Buzbee held a digital press convention final week the place he shared that of the 120 alleged victims, 60 have been males and 60 have been ladies. Amongst these 120 folks, 25 have been minors on the time of the alleged abuse, with the youngest alleged sufferer aged nine-years-old.

In keeping with Buzbee, the nine-year-old alleged sufferer had met with Diddy at his Dangerous Boy workplace in Manhattan for an audition and was “making an attempt to land a document deal” in a aggressive course of that included “different boys” when he was allegedly sexually abused by Diddy and “a number of different folks on the studio”.

Buzbee has reportedly acknowledged the statute of limitations, however has additionally stated that New York and California will seemingly recognise the “majority” of the 120 instances. He added that each one 120 alleged victims “intend to convey civil claims in civil courtroom” in opposition to Diddy and potential co-defendants together with alleged accomplices, silent bystanders and “company entities”.

In a press release to Rolling Stone, Diddy’s lawyer Erica Wolff stated the musician “emphatically and categorically denies” the allegations. “As Mr. Combs’ authorized staff has emphasised, he can not tackle each meritless allegation in what has turn out to be a reckless media circus,” she stated.

“That stated, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors. He appears ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality might be established primarily based on proof, not hypothesis.”

Learn Janice Smalls Combs’ full assertion beneath:

“I come to you right now as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made in opposition to my son, Sean Combs. It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies. To bear witness what appears to be like a public lynching of my son earlier than he has had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases. Like each human being, my son deserves to have his day in courtroom, to lastly share his aspect, and to show his innocence.

I’m not right here to painting my son as excellent as a result of he’s not. He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have. My son might not have been fully truthful about sure issues, similar to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case. Typically, the reality and a lie turn out to be so carefully intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is outdoors the norm or is simply too difficult to be believed. Because of this I imagine my son’s civil authorized staff opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as a substitute of contesting it till the top, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this determination in opposition to my son by deciphering it as an act of contrition.

You will need to recognise that none of us, no matter our standing, are resistant to concern or errors. Not being fully easy about one difficulty doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave costs levelled in opposition to him. Many people who have been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not as a result of they have been responsible of the crimes they have been accused of, however as a result of they didn’t match the picture of what this society considers to be a ‘good individual’. Historical past has confirmed us how people will be wrongfully convicted attributable to their previous actions or errors.

Watching the world make jokes and snort at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It’s actually agonising to look at the world flip in opposition to my son so shortly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his aspect or affording him the chance to current his aspect. These lies thrown at him are motivated by these in search of a monetary acquire, and never justice. These people noticed how shortly my son’s civil authorized staff settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, in order that they imagine they’ll obtain a fast payday by falsely accusing my son. False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve. To make issues worse, the federal authorities is now utilizing these lies to prosecute my son. This injustice has been insufferable for our household. The worst a part of this ordeal is watching my beloved son be stripped of his dignity, not for what he did, however for what folks select to imagine about him.

I ask his supporters, followers, colleagues, mates, and the general public, to not decide him earlier than you’ve had the possibility to listen to his aspect. I encourage you to consider those that have been wrongfully persecuted, to keep in mind that not everybody who has made errors in life deserves to have their complete existence judged by a single motion or a couple of errors. My son is just not the monster they’ve painted him to be, and he deserves the possibility to inform his aspect. I can solely pray that I’m alive to see him converse his fact and be vindicated.”

In the meantime, as was not too long ago confirmed by Billboard, Tupac Shakur’s household has now employed New York legal professional Alex Spiro to research an alleged hyperlink between the rapper’s demise and Diddy. Combs has by no means been charged in connection to the homicide.

Per the Guardian, in 2008, Diddy denied any connection to the capturing after an LA Instances report alleged his associates, James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond and Jimmy Sabatino, helped stage a theft of Shakur after providing the late rapper $7,000 to document a monitor on the studio on the night time in query.

“The story is a lie,” he stated in a press release in response. “It’s past ridiculous and utterly false. Neither (the late rapper Infamous B.I.G.) nor I had any data of any assault earlier than, throughout or after it occurred. I’m shocked that the Los Angeles Instances can be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and utterly unfaithful story.”