Monday, September 10th:
A Michigan man won a $100m default judgment on Monday against Sean “Diddy” Combs, after the music mogul failed to appear in court to contest a civil suit accusing him of a 1997 sexual assault.
Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51, an inmate at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility, accused Diddy in June of sexually assaulting him during a party in 1997 in the Detroit area.
According to court documents obtained by USA Today, Cardello-Smith felt Combs touch his buttocks while Cardello-Smith was having sex with a woman who was with them.
Combs allegedly saw Cardello-Smith recoil, then later gave him a spiked drink.
"I stayed sitting there and began getting drowsy and started to pass out," Cardello-Smith, who represented himself, wrote in the complaint. "Then Sean Combs said to me ‘I added a little something to it for you. I will get that from you anyway, one way or another.’"
Judge Anna Marie Anzalone ordered Combs to pay $10 million each month beginning Oct. 1 for 10 months.
A plaintiff can receive a default judgment when the defendant doesn’t formally respond to the case or appear in court. Combs did not appear at a virtual hearing on Monday, according to court records, which led to the judge’s order. At a hearing in August, a judge said that Combs was served.
Attorneys for Combs contest that he never received notice of the lawsuit and will look to have the case dismissed