Janice Smalls Combs, the mom of Sean “Diddy” Combs, has launched an announcement in protection of her son as he faces gross prices 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.
“I come to you at the moment as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made in opposition to my son, Sean Combs. It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story 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 each human being, my son deserves to have at the present time in court docket, to lastly share his aspect, and to show his innocence.”
Diddy’s mother went on to clarify that she was “not right here to painting [her] son as excellent as a result of he isn’t,” including: “He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have” and saying:
“My son could not have been solely truthful about sure issues, resembling denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the lodge’s surveillance confirmed in any other case.”
Certainly, in Might, CNN obtained surveillance footage from 2016 that featured Diddy grabbing Cassie Ventura outdoors of an elevator… tossing her to the bottom… and kicking her quite a few occasions.
“It’s so tough to replicate on the darkest occasions in your life,” Combs mentioned in response again then, including by way of Instagram:
“Generally you gotta do this. I used to be f-cked up. I imply I hit all-time low however I make no excuses. My conduct on that video is inexcusable.
“I take full accountability for my actions in that video.”
As a part of the indictment in opposition to Diddy, in the meantime, authorities say the mogul organized “Freak Offs,” or “elaborate intercourse performances” throughout which ladies had been compelled by means of “power, threats of power, and coercion, to trigger victims to have interaction in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse employees.”
Based on this authorized doc, amongst provides seized by authorities from Diddy’s properties earlier this 12 months had been 1,000 bottles of child oil.
Diddy accused by authorities of arranging, directing, masturbating throughout and sometimes “electronically recording” the Freak Offs — whereas additionally transporting industrial intercourse employees “throughout state strains and internationally.”
Simply completely gross and horrible in each means.
Again to Janice, who went on as follows:
“Generally, the reality and a lie change into so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is outdoors the norm or is just too sophisticated to be believed.
“This is the reason I consider my son’s civil authorized workforce opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as an alternative of contesting it till the tip, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this resolution in opposition to my son by deciphering it as an act of contrition.
“Not being solely easy about one difficulty doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave prices leveled in opposition to him.
“Many people who had been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not as a result of they had been responsible of the crimes they had been accused of, however as a result of they didn’t match the picture of what this society considers to be a ‘good individual.’”
And he or she 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 actually 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.
“These lies thrown at him are motivated by these in search of a monetary acquire, and never justice. These people noticed how shortly my son’s civil authorized workforce settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, in order that they consider they’ll 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 costs after he was denied bail twice. He was remanded to Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn till his trial.
