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, stated in a assertion launched on October 6 by way of 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 stated 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 courtroom, to lastly share his aspect, and to show his innocence,” she added.
The assertion acknowledged the broadly 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 just about an extended checklist of different prices made public within the earlier 12 months, regardless that she acknowledged that her son “might not have been fully truthful about sure issues,” such because the 2016 assault on Ventura that was revealed through a resort safety footage that was made public in Might.
“Not being fully easy about one difficulty doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave prices leveled in opposition to him,” his mom famous.
She asserted that the prolonged checklist of prices in opposition to him is pushed by these on the lookout for 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 shortly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his aspect or affording him the chance to current his aspect,” Combs’ mom expressed her remorse over the way in which the general public had handled the artist.
She referred to as for individuals to offer room for the rapper to elucidate himself, stating, “My son shouldn’t be the monster they’ve painted him to be, and he deserves the prospect to inform his aspect. I can solely pray that I’m alive to see him converse his fact and be vindicated.”
Combs is being detained in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Middle pending his trial after submitting a not-guilty plea to federal prices of intercourse trafficking and racketeering on September 16.
A lawyer for 120 extra of Combs’ alleged victims stated final week that they meant to file further instances in opposition to the movie star along with the present ones.
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