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Still awaiting a ruling from a trio of Appeal Court judges complete his criminal case, nan incarcerated Sean “Diddy” Combs sewage immoderate bad ineligible news today.
A New York judge conscionable threw retired nan Bad Boy Records founder’s complete a twelvemonth aged $100 cardinal defamation suit against NBCUniversal.
In fact, Empire State Supreme Court judge Phaedra F. Perry-Bond didn’t conscionable disregard the February 25, 2025 revenge action by nan much-accused Combs, she backed up and drove complete it respective times. The judge said that location is nary measurement Peacock‘s Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy documentary could person brought scorn connected nan Grammy victor because Combs’ estimation was already “tarnished by nan galore lawsuits, home unit video, property coverage, and a criminal indictment anterior to nan Documentary’s publication.”
Launched connected nan Comcast-owned streamer little than six months after Combs was arrested an indicted connected racketeering, activity trafficking and adultery charges by nan feds, nan January 14, 2025 debuting doc peeled backmost nan layers connected allegations of wide unit and intersexual maltreatment by Combs complete nan decades.
At that constituent successful nan sordid Combs saga, which was receiving a deluge of media sum astatine nan time, not a batch of that seemed peculiarly caller information. Perhaps much damning and individual for nan ‘Missing You’ producer, nan 90-minute flick examined nan Combs’ domiciled (or not) successful nan deaths of nan iconic Notorious B.I.G. and Kim Porter, Diddy’s longtime woman and mother of respective of his children.
“Indeed, nan full premise of nan Documentary assumes that Mr. Combs has committed galore heinous crimes, including serial murder, rape of minors, and activity trafficking of minors, and attempts to crudely psychologize him,” nan 17-page large bucks seeking title states. “It maliciously and baselessly jumps to nan conclusion that Mr. Combs is simply a ‘monster’ and ‘an embodiment of Lucifer’ pinch ‘a batch of similarities’ to Jeffrey Epstein.”
Judge Perry-Bond disagreed.
In her bid Wednesday, nan NY judge said that Combs and his lawyers ne'er “establish a important ground regarding reputational harm.” She went connected to spotlight that nan Al B. Sure! co-directed movie was “carefully curated and nuanced” and made judge to make evident “interviewees’ biases and includes counterstatements to nan allegedly defamatory statements”
Combs’ reps had nary remark coming connected nan ruling, but NBCU’s lead lawyer was very to nan large image astir it. “This is an important ruling that protects filmmakers and journalists by dismissing this meritless title arsenic barred by New York rule and nan First Amendment,” Gibson Dunn’s Ted Boutrous Jr. told Deadline.
In his criminal case, Combs was sentenced to 4 years successful situation and a $500,000 good past September by a national judge after a assemblage convicted him of 2 counts of proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. Set now to beryllium retired of nan debased information New Jersey situation he’s successful connected April 15, 2028, Diddy was acquitted successful nan verdict of nan overmuch much superior charges of racketeering conspiracy and activity trafficking – which carried a imaginable life condemnation for nan now 56-year-old.
On April 9 successful Manhattan, lawyer Alexandra Shapiro based on earlier 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian overreached and factored successful charges Combs had been acquitted of successful sentencing him. The 3 judges connected nan sheet person not yet made a determination nationalist connected nan appeal.
Combs had been seeking a seemingly not granted pardon from his aged pal Donald Trump. He was besides threatening to writer Netflix and aged foe Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson complete nan successful Sean Combs: The Reckoning seres — but that looks to person vanished arsenic overmuch arsenic this NBCU suit now.
