2:30 PM PT — Diddy‘s lawyer Erica Wolff tells TMZ … “Mr. Combs is shocked and dissatisfied by this lawsuit. In an try and rewrite historical past, Daybreak Richard has now manufactured a sequence of false claims all within the hopes of attempting to get a pay day — conveniently timed to coincide along with her album launch and press tour.”
She provides, “If Ms. Richard had such a damaging expertise with Making the Band and Danity Kane, she wouldn’t have chosen to proceed working immediately with Mr. Combs for Soiled Cash, nor would she have returned for the Making the Band reboot in 2020 or agreed to be featured on ‘The Love Album’ final yr. It’s unlucky that Ms. Richard has solid their 20-year friendship apart to try to get cash from him, however Mr. Combs is confidently standing on fact and appears ahead to proving that in courtroom.”
Diddy is going through yet one more lawsuit from a brand new accuser, a former bandmate who claims the music mogul belittled, terrorized and sexually abused her whereas she additionally witnessed him savagely beat his ex, Cassie.
In accordance with the swimsuit, obtained by TMZ … Daybreak Richard says she obtained caught in Diddy’s net as a participant on his 2004 MTV present “Making The Band,” with the Dangerous Boy CEO manipulating her by promising to advance her singing profession if she relented to his alleged twisted calls for.
The previous Danity Kane member stated throughout on-set auditions, Diddy known as feminine contestants “fats,” “ugly,” “bitches” and “hoes.” She stated Diddy had explicit disdain for her as a result of she was younger and excited to work with such a well-known particular person.
In 2005, the courtroom docs say, Richard noticed one other of Diddy’s former girlfriends, Kim Porter, crying as she left a music studio along with her face all banged up. It was then Richard says she realized Diddy was able to violence and her life could possibly be in peril.
A yr later, Richard was current when Diddy was first launched to Cassie, invading her house whereas transfixed on her in a predatory trend, in keeping with the docs. In 2009, she says she personally witnessed Diddy — excessive on medication — throw Cassie in opposition to a wall, choke her and drag her up a flight of stairs in his L.A. house.
Richard says Diddy additionally hurled a scalding pan of eggs at Cassie whereas yelling, “I’ve been asking you for my s**t; I can’t stand you bitch, you by no means do it proper!”
On different events, Richard says Diddy socked Cassie within the face and wrapped his palms round her throat, making an attempt to strangle her inside his L.A. mansion.
Sooner or later, Richard says she and others — together with her Diddy-Soiled Cash bandmate Kalenna Harper — confirmed their assist to Cassie and suggested her to depart Diddy, who discovered concerning the dialog and threatened … “Y’all bitches don’t get in my relationship,” including, “Don’t inform my bitch [Cassie] what she have to be doing … Simply make cash and shut the f**ok up … I finish artists … I shelve careers … You may be lacking … You bitches need to die immediately.”
In the meantime, Richard says she, too, turned a sufferer of Diddy’s abuse, forcing her to rehearse 48 hours at a time with out sleep. Because of this, she says she dropped loads of weight and have become dehydrated and fatigued whereas struggling terrible rashes.
She says one time Diddy demanded she come to his Miami house, the place he was solely carrying underwear. When she requested him to placed on garments, Diddy refused, screaming, “That is my f**king home!”
Diddy’s remedy of Richard obtained worse she says between 2009 and 2011. Richard says Diddy as soon as barged into her dressing room whereas she was bare at his recording studio. She says Diddy inappropriately touched her breasts and butt.
Diddy, she says, additionally locked her in a automotive with closely tinted home windows for 2 hours as she screamed for assist, even calling her dad for assist.
Richard claims her dad traveled from Baltimore to New York to free his daughter and confront Diddy, threatening to report him to the police. However, she says, Diddy advised her dad, “Take into consideration your daughter” and “take into consideration your daughter’s profession.”
TMZ.com
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