Diddy’s Mother Sued By Bad Boy Label Co-Founder
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mother, Janice Smalls, has been sued by a former right-hand man of the embattled rapper, Kirk Burrowes.
Burrowes claims Diddy seized control of his stake in Bad Boy Record label, leaving him homeless.
Sean “Diddy” Combs has been in jail after being arrested in September following charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
Diddy’s mom, Janice Smalls, has been dragged into a new lawsuit involving her son and his former right-hand man, Burrowes.
According to reports, Burrowes filed a lawsuit in which he alleged that the rapper used a baseball bat to force him into signing over his shares of the company and then gave his mom.
The alleged altercation happened in 1996 when Diddy entered his office with Bad Boy Entertainment attorney Kenneth Meiselas. Burrowes claims he was then forced to give up his 25 percent stake in the company.
The ousted music executive who served as the company’s Chief operating officer and general manager says he’s homeless and has had to endure “prolonged periods of living in shelters across New York City” due to the “immense” financial hardship as a result.
He’s now suing Smalls, the label’s majority stakeholder and who he alleges “engaged in a decades-long scheme of intimidation, violence, fraudulent misrepresentation, and financial concealment.”
Elsewhere in the lawsuit, Burrowes claims that Smalls wasn’t in the office the day of the alleged assault, which seemed quite odd to him.
He noted that he later contacted her “seeking guidance,” but she “pretended she was unaware” of what Diddy and Meiselas had allegedly done.
Although she wasn’t physically present, he claims that Diddy and Meiselas “were acting under [her] direction to orchestrate the fraudulent involuntary transfer.”
The lawsuit claims that the “Defendants not only defrauded [Burrowes] of his rightful stake in BBE but also systematically sabotaged his career.”
Burrowes claims he has been owed millions of dollars in lost profit as he invested $100,000 when Bad Boy Entertainment first launched.
He’s seeking damages for financial losses, reinstatement of his 25 percent ownership stake, his 15 percent annual share including interest, and a forensic audit of Bad Boy Entertainment’s earnings and profits from its inception to the present.
