Diddy‘s combating again in opposition to the huge $100 million default judgment leveled in opposition to him this week … claiming he by no means obtained a duplicate of the lawsuit — and, even when he had, the statute of limitations ran out years in the past.
The controversial music mogul filed the emergency movement to put aside the huge judgment Thursday … saying the plaintiff, Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, by no means served him with a lawsuit — and, he did not know he needed to deal with the matter till information retailers began reporting on the judgment.
Value noting … Diddy’s attorneys aren’t simply attempting to get the case thrown out for failing to serve him correctly — they’re denying all wrongdoing wholeheartedly. They are saying the “facially implausible allegations are fully fabricated.”
Even when the allegations had been true — which once more, Diddy’s attorneys say they don’t seem to be — they are saying the statute of limitations ran out almost 17 years in the past.
Diddy’s staff’s additionally slamming the lawsuit as frivolous … ‘trigger they are saying the person who filed it’s a convicted rapist who’s mendacity about all the allegations within the lawsuit. Additionally they declare he has a historical past of submitting lawsuits that courts have labeled as frivolous.
ICYMI … Cardello-Smith was awarded $100 million from a choose after Diddy failed to reply to the grievance Cardello-Smith filed in June.
Cardello-Smith claims again in 1997 he and Diddy had been having intercourse with a bunch of ladies when he felt Diddy’s hand contact his butt. He claims Diddy later spiked his drink and — when he awoke — Diddy implied he’d sexually assaulted Cardello-Smith.
The choose arrange a cost schedule — $10 million a month starting October 1.