Janice Smalls Combs, the mom of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has launched an announcement in protection of her son as he faces gross costs of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and sexual abuse.
The rapper and businessman was taken into custody at a Manhattan lodge on Monday, September 16 after having been indicted by a grand jury.
Diddy performs on stage throughout the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Heart on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photograph by Jason Kempin/Getty Photos for MTV)
“I come to you today as a mother that is devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made against my son, Sean Combs. It is heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the truth, but for a narrative created out of lies,” Janice mentioned in a message shared by her lawyer Natlie G. Figgers.
She continued:
“To bear witness [sic] 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 every human being, my son deserves to have this day in court, to finally share his side, and to prove his innocence.”
Janice Combs and Diddy attend the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on the Prudential Heart on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photograph by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Photos)
Diddy’s mother went on to elucidate that she was “not here to portray [her] son as perfect because he is not,” including: “He has made mistakes in his past, as we all have” and saying:
“My son may not have been entirely truthful about certain things, such as denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the hotel’s surveillance showed otherwise.”
Certainly, in Could, CNN obtained surveillance footage from 2016 that featured Diddy grabbing Cassie Ventura exterior of an elevator… tossing her to the bottom… and kicking her quite a few occasions.
“It’s so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in your life,” Combs mentioned in response again then, including through Instagram:
“Generally you gotta try this. I used to be f-cked up. I imply I hit all-time low however I make no excuses. My habits on that video is inexcusable.
“I take full responsibility for my actions in that video.”
Diddy attends the 2018 Fox Community Upfront at Wollman Rink, Central Park on Could 14, 2018 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Photos)
As a part of the indictment towards Diddy, in the meantime, authorities say the mogul organized “Freak Offs,” or “elaborate sex performances” throughout which girls had been compelled by way of “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”
Based on this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s houses earlier this yr had been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and infrequently “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting business intercourse employees “across state lines and internationally.”
Simply completely gross and horrible in each method.
Diddy performs at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire in a particular one night time solely occasion at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on November 07, 2023. (Photograph Credit score: Samir Hussein/Getty Photos for Sean Diddy Combs)
Again to Janice, who went on as follows:
“Generally, the reality and a lie turn into so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that reality is exterior the norm or is simply too difficult to be believed.
“For this reason I imagine my son’s civil authorized workforce opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as a substitute of contesting it till the top, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this resolution towards my son by deciphering it as an act of contrition.
“Not being solely simple about one concern doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave costs leveled towards him.
“Many individuals who were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not because they were guilty of the crimes they were accused of, but because they didn’t fit the image of what this society considers to be a ‘good person.’”
Diddy attends the premiere of Fox’s “The Four: Battle For Stardom” Season 2 at CBS Studios – Radford on Could 30, 2018 in Studio Metropolis, California. (Photograph by Wealthy Fury/Getty Photos)
And she or he concluded:
“Watching the world make jokes and snort at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It’s really agonizing to look at the world flip towards 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.
“These lies thrown at him are motivated by these in search of a monetary acquire, and never justice. These people noticed how rapidly my son’s civil authorized workforce settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, so that they imagine they will obtain a fast payday by falsely accusing my son.
“False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve.”
Diddy has pleaded not responsible to the fees after he was denied bail twice. He was remanded to Metropolitan Detention Heart in Brooklyn till his trial.
