Janice Combs walked away from a $33 million racketeering lawsuit on Tuesday (September 19) after a federal decide tossed the case, handing the 85-year-old mom of Sean “Diddy” Combs a uncommon courtroom win as her son stays locked up awaiting sentencing.
The lawsuit, filed by Deon Finest, often known as D1, accused Combs of fraud, forgery and hiding paperwork to steal publishing rights to the 1998 observe “Come With Me” from the Godzilla film soundtrack.
Nonetheless, the courtroom dominated the claims had been each too outdated and too imprecise to maneuver ahead, stating Finest would “take nothing” and that Combs and her firms may get better authorized prices.
The decide discovered the allegations missed the four-year statute of limitations and lacked particular particulars about when or how the alleged misconduct occurred.
Finest claimed he solely turned conscious of the alleged wrongdoing in 2023 and sought tens of hundreds of thousands in damages. He argued Combs used her affect inside her son’s enterprise empire to quietly take management of the music’s royalties.
The choice ends months of authorized back-and-forth that painted Combs as a behind-the-scenes operator in her son’s monetary dealings. However the courtroom didn’t purchase it.
In the meantime, Diddy faces his personal authorized storm. The 54-year-old Hip-Hop mogul was convicted in July 2025 on prostitution-related costs however was acquitted of extra severe racketeering and intercourse trafficking counts.
He’s been in federal custody for over a yr and is scheduled to be sentenced in October.
Janice Combs Converse Up For Son Diddy Forward Of Sentencing
One other lawsuit continues to be pending. Kirk Burrowes, Diddy’s former enterprise companion, has accused Combs of serving to push him out of Unhealthy Boy Leisure utilizing “intimidation, violence, fraudulent misrepresentation, and monetary concealment.”
Regardless of the mounting authorized points, Combs has remained vocal in her help of her son. In October 2024, she launched an announcement via her lawyer calling the accusations towards Diddy a “narrative created out of lies” and labeling the general public scrutiny a “public lynching.”
She defended him once more after resort surveillance footage surfaced displaying Diddy assaulting ex-girlfriend Cassie, saying he was “not the monster they’ve painted him to be.”
As Diddy’s authorized crew pushes for a diminished 14-month sentence, almost 70 letters have been submitted to the courtroom, together with one from his mom. In her letter, Combs acknowledged her son had “made some horrible errors” however pleaded for leniency so she may spend her remaining years with him.
