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Diddy slammed the male prisoner suing him for alleged assault for allegedly making false claims about evidence in the $400 million battle, In Touch can exclusively report.
According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Diddy, 55, scoffed at Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith’s claims that a sexual assault kit was performed.
Derrick sued Diddy over an alleged 1997 sexual assault at a Holiday Inn in Detroit.
Diddy denied the accusations and claimed the facts of Derrick’s story had changed over time. The accuser filed his suit in state court but it was removed to federal court by Diddy.
In a recent motion, Derrick asked the court to “secure” the results “of a ‘sexual assault kit’ which supposedly demonstrates the involvement of [Diddy] in the alleged assault.”
Diddy’s lawyer responded to the claim. He wrote, “This simply is not true. No discovery was conducted in this matter in the Lenawee County Circuit Court (or anywhere else), and no such document has ever been tendered to [Diddy].”
The mogul’s attorney added, “In any event, even if [Derrick] somehow conjures up the document(s) he seeks, they would undoubtedly be irrelevant to any matters currently pending before the court.”
The lawyer ended, “[Derrick’s] allegations (as fundamentally unbelievable as they are) relate to occurrences which [Derrick] claims date back to 1997—27 years before this lawsuit was filed. Therefore, even if the evidence purportedly being ‘secured’ did provide some type of support for the [Derrick’s] outlandish claims, that evidence could not revive a case in which the statute of limitations expired 24 years ago.”
Diddy once again asked for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed.
As In Touch previously reported, Derrick who is currently locked up in a Michigan prison, claimed he met Diddy while working as a bartender. The alleged victim claimed Diddy invited him to a sex party, which he ended up attending.
He said Diddy gave him a drink and said he added “a little something” to it.
Derrick said he fell asleep after drinking and woke up to Diddy having sex with a woman.
Derrick said Diddy told him, “I did this to you too!” The prisoner claimed Diddy conspired with government officials to cover up the alleged crimes. Diddy denied all allegations of wrongdoing.
His lawyers called Derrick’s claims “baseless.” Diddy’s attorney said, “Incredibly, in two different complaints filed in two different courts, [Derrick] alleges that this purported assault occurred in two different counties on the same day.”
Diddy’s team also said the claims were filed way past the statute of limitations.
“Because the assault allegedly occurred in June 1997, any claim [Derrick] might have had expired in June 2000—more than two decades before [Derrick] commenced this litigation,” Diddy’s lawyer argued.
As In Touch first reported, Derrick recently submitted a declaration from an alleged witness to back up his claims in the suit.
Diddy’s lawyer, Erica A. Wolff, told In Touch, “The allegations in this new filing, like the claims in this lawsuit, are ridiculous and totally false. The notion that some twenty-seven years after the alleged events at issue and after a court already found his claims ‘unlikely . . .[to] succeed on the merits,’ Mr. Cardello-Smith just located a key witness who just so happens to be incarcerated in the very same correctional facility in which Mr. Cardello-Smith resides is, to put it charitably, as implausible on its face as Mr. Cardello-Smith’s allegation that Sean Combs promised to give Mr. Cardello-Smith forty-nine percent of Mr. Combs’ assets in exchange for $150,000.”
The lawyer ended, “We are confident that the court will grant our pending motion to dismiss because Cardello-Smith’s Complaint is absolutely meritless.”
As In Touch previously reported, Diddy has remained behind bars since he was arrested on September 16 on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. He pleaded not guilty to all charges.
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