Sean “Diddy” COMBS’s law team filed a $ 50 -defamation lawsuit against a man who falsely claimed that a 55 -year -old producer had sexually assaulted eight celebrities.
The lawsuit filed by the New York City Federal Court accuses Courtney Virgys and his lawyer Ariel Mitchell to fabricate “ridiculous lies” as part of the efforts to potentially benefit from the media’s enthusiasm surrounding the accused of September. do. Suspicion of prostitution.
COMBS also sued the NEXTSTAR Media Group, the parent company of TV Network, because it broadcast Burgess’ claims without proper due diligence.
Erica Wolf, a lawyer of COMBS, said in a statement that “Sean ‘Diddy’ COMBS confronts malicious false facts manipulated and amplified by an individual who wants to benefit from his own cost.”
“These accused were deliberately fabricated and disseminated by the ridiculous lies, ignoring the truth recklessly,” Wolf said. “Their false undermined the public’s perception and contaminated the jury pool. This complaint must be a warning that the intentional false facts that undermine the right to be fair for COMBS will no longer be tolerated. ”
COMBS is currently imprisoned at the Brooklyn Metropolitan detention center and has been acquitted for allegations of prostitution raised after being arrested in September. He is imprisoned after the judge refused to pay the bail and is waiting for a trial on May 5. He denied all charges.
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According to the lawsuit, Burgess began interviewing reporters, social media celebrities and actual criminal podcasts after COMBS was arrested and claimed that he had a illegal video of COMBS, involved in sexual assaults of entertainers and minors.
Burgess insisted that he received a flash drive with a guilty judgment from COMBS’s old partner and his four mothers, actor and model of his four children. According to the lawsuit, Burgess and Mitchell are known to have repeated this claim in news media, including newsnation.
The lawsuit will refer to the newsnation segment aired in October 2024 with Burgess and Mitchell. Burgess repeated his previous claim and insisted that the newsnation host knew eight celebrities in eight other videos.
In the lawsuit, the newsnation host knew that this information was false or “because I had never seen such a video, I at least ignored whether the statement was true or false.”
October 24th Atwood liberation Podcast appearance with Burgess is also mentioned in the lawsuit. While he appeared, Burgess claimed that Porter had approached him to provide data through the mediator and called COMBS as “Lucifer.”
Burgess also publicly insisted that Porter provided a copy of the memoir and began selling in Amazon. The memoir was deleted from the website after the criticism of the Porter family.
COMBS’s lawyer claims that Burgess has never met COMBS and does not know his family members. Some people close to Porter have never heard of Burgess and doubted his claims, told NEW York Times about the article published in November. Burgess acknowledged that he later didn’t know COMBS personally.
“The accused undermines COMBS’s reputation, undermined his business, produced him, and described him as a pedophilia, hurt the public’s perception and a fair trial from it,” COMBS’s law team said.
COMBS filed a lawsuit on alleged defamation of the amount that was determined through the trial, but demands more than $ 50 million and requires a jury trial.
In a statement sent to the People, Mitchell said the lawsuit was “a pathetic strategy to silence the victims and the victims.”
“Didi has time to file a lawsuit, but he has already refused to serve a lawsuit against him,” Mitchell said. “I look forward to this rash and valuable lawsuit, not only Didi but also D’Di’s lawyers will be in charge and the court will be punished.”
NEWSNATION did not respond to the lawsuit at the time of this article.
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