Diddy's estate is in jeopardy. Media Take Out has learned that a Detroit judge has issued a $100M default judgment against Diddy, in favor of a Detroit man who claims Diddy sexually abused him during one of his parties.
The Metro Times reports that 51-year-old Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, currently an inmate at the Ernest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights, has been awarded a $100 million default judgment against Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Derrick's inmate card lists him as 5'10 and weighs 180 pounds. Derrick is currently locked up on 14 counts of violent crimes – including kidnapping and sexual assault, and could face up to 75 years in prison.
The ruling was made Monday by Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone. The judge had issued a temporary restraining order against Combs in August, when the suit was first filed.
Neither Diddy nor his legal team responded to the lawsuit, and so Derick was awarded a default judgment in the amount of $100 million.
Derick claims Diddy allegedly drugged and sexually abused him at a “Diddy Party” in Detroit in 1997. According to Derick, the two of them were drinking and smoking marijuana at the party and got naked with several women. Cardello-Smith says he was performing oral sex on a woman when he felt a man's hand on his left buttock – he says it was Diddy's hand. Some time later, he says Diddy offered him a drink that had been laced with drugs and he passed out.
A few hours later, Cardello-Smith claimed he woke up and saw Diddy having sex with a woman, and Diddy allegedly told him, “I did that to you too.”
Derrick, who came into contact with Combs while working as an employee at a Detroit-area restaurant, is currently in prison for an unrelated crime and has become an expert in criminal and civil law while behind bars.
And the story got even weirder. Derrick brought receipts.
According to court records, Derrick presented information from the jail facility that showed Combs' name on visitation records. He says the Bad Boy Records founder visited him and offered him $2.3 million to dismiss the lawsuitTea.
At the August hearing, Cardello-Smith told the court about a conversation in which she said she and Combs discussed the lawsuit directly.
“You know how we get down,” was Combs' alleged response to Derick's threat to continue the action rather than accept an out-of-court settlement.
Diddy's team has not commented publicly about the situation.
