As Diddy awaits sentencing after being convicted in his legal case, he takes time to battle again towards a lawsuit filed towards his son, Christian “King” Combs. The previous mogul filed a declaration in courtroom final Friday (July 25) arguing that the case, filed in California, must be dropped because it has no jurisdiction over him. Diddy is a co-defendant within the case.
The case was filed by a girl named Grace O’Marcaigh, who in response to US Weekly, claimed that whereas she was engaged on a superyacht named Victorious that she was drugged and sexually assaulted by Christian throughout a celebration in 2022. In his submitting, he says the go well with “incorrectly alleges that I chartered the yacht the place the alleged assault occurred.” Diddy additionally claimed, “I’m neither the signatory nor a celebration to the … Constitution Settlement,” in his letter.
Diddy additionally wrote that he’s been a resident of Florida for the previous 5 years previous to his arrest final September, claiming it must also be grounds for the go well with to be dismissed. The go well with towards him and his son Christian was filed in April 2024 by O’Marcaigh’s lawyer, Tyrone Blackburn. A lawyer representing the daddy and son, Aaron Dyer, had beforehand responded to the go well with, saying: “This criticism is crammed with the identical form of manufactured lies and irrelevant details we’ve come to count on from Blackburn. We might be submitting a movement to dismiss this outrageous declare.”
O’Marcaigh’s declare additionally stated that the sexual assault was captured on video by one in every of Diddy’s guards. She additionally alleged that she knowledgeable the captain, who acquired upset along with her, claiming that Diddy paid off the captain to realize his silence. O’Marcaigh claimed that she would lose her job and suffered emotional hardship afterward, together with struggling a number of epiliptic seizures and separating from her longtime associate.
Diddy is at present awaiting sentencing after being convicted of two counts of partaking in transportation to have interaction in prostitution on July 2, though he was discovered not responsible of the extra critical costs of the federal case. He may obtain as much as 20 years in jail.
