Within the midst of a string of authorized points involving allegations of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom has stepped as much as defend him.
Combs’ mom, Janice Small Combs, mentioned in a assertion launched on October 6 via lawyer Natalie G. Figgers, obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, that Diddy is harmless of the costs made in opposition to him.
“It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies,” she mentioned within the assertion. “To bear witness what appears to be like a public lynching of my son earlier than he has had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases.”
“Like each human being, my son deserves to have his day in court docket, to lastly share his facet, and to show his innocence,” she added.
The assertion acknowledged the extensively distributed video footage of Diddy abusing Cassie Ventura, his ex-girlfriend, however claimed that the incident was remoted and was not being utilized in an unjust method to help different “repulsive allegations” in opposition to her son.
“I’m not right here to painting my son as good as a result of he isn’t,” as talked about in her assertion. “He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have.”
Janice Combs maintained her son’s innocence with regards to an extended checklist of different fees made public within the earlier 12 months, despite the fact that she acknowledged that her son “might not have been completely truthful about sure issues,” such because the 2016 assault on Ventura that was revealed by way of a resort safety footage that was made public in Might.
“Not being completely easy about one situation doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave fees leveled in opposition to him,” his mom famous.
She asserted that the prolonged checklist of fees in opposition to him is pushed by these in search of monetary achieve relatively than justice, after drawing comparisons between Combs and different individuals who have been “wrongfully convicted and later exonerated” due to “previous actions or errors.”
“Really agonizing to observe the world flip in opposition to my son so rapidly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his facet or affording him the chance to current his facet,” Combs’ mom expressed her remorse over the way in which the general public had handled the artist.
She referred to as for folks to offer room for the rapper to clarify himself, stating, “My son is just not the monster they’ve painted him to be, and he deserves the possibility to inform his facet. I can solely pray that I’m alive to see him communicate his reality and be vindicated.”
Combs is being detained in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle pending his trial after submitting a not-guilty plea to federal fees of intercourse trafficking and racketeering on September 16.
A lawyer for 120 extra of Combs’ alleged victims mentioned final week that they supposed to file extra circumstances in opposition to the movie star along with the present ones.
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