Diddy’s Mother Sued For Allegedly Seizing Dangerous Boy Label From Co-Founder

Sean “Diddy” Combs‘ mom, Janice Smalls, has been sued by a former right-hand man of the embattled rapper, Kirk Burrowes.

Burrowes claims Diddy seized management of his stake in Dangerous Boy File label, leaving him homeless.

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been in jail after being arrested in September following fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution.

Diddy’s mother, Janice Smalls, has been dragged into a brand new lawsuit involving her son and his former right-hand man, Burrowes.

In keeping with the Each day Mail, Burrowes filed a lawsuit during which he alleged that the “Finna Get Free” rapper used a baseball bat to pressure him into signing over his shares of the corporate after which gave his mother.

The alleged altercation occurred in 1996 when Diddy entered his workplace with Dangerous Boy Leisure legal professional Kenneth Meiselas. Burrowes claims he was then pressured to surrender his 25 p.c stake within the firm.

The ousted music government who served as the corporate’s Chief working officer and basic supervisor says he is homeless and has needed to endure “extended durations of dwelling in shelters throughout New York Metropolis” because of the “immense” monetary hardship because of this.

He is now suing Smalls, the label’s majority stakeholder and who he alleges “engaged in a decades-long scheme of intimidation, violence, fraudulent misrepresentation, and monetary concealment.”

“By phrases and actions, Sean Combs and Kenneth Meiselas frightened and intimidated and assaulted plaintiff (Burrowes) and compelled him to show over his share certificates for 25 shares of Dangerous Boy Leisure to Sean Combs,” courtroom paperwork learn.

“Plaintiff, fearing for his life, with tears streaming down his face, clearly unable to withstand beneath the circumstances, involuntarily signed the paperwork,” Burrowes claimed.

Elsewhere within the lawsuit, Burrowes claims that Smalls wasn’t within the workplace the day of the alleged assault, which appeared fairly odd to him.

He famous that he later contacted her “in search of steerage,” however she “pretended she was unaware” of what Diddy and Meiselas had allegedly executed.

Though she wasn’t bodily current, he claims that Diddy and Meiselas “have been performing beneath [her] route to orchestrate the fraudulent involuntary switch.”

The lawsuit claims that the “Defendants not solely defrauded [Burrowes] of his rightful stake in BBE but additionally systematically sabotaged his profession.”

“They blacklisted him from the music trade, blocked enterprise alternatives, and destroyed his skilled popularity, guaranteeing he would stay financially destitute and unable to reclaim what was rightfully his,” the doc learn.

In keeping with the information outlet, Burrowes claims he has been owed tens of millions of {dollars} in misplaced revenue as he invested $100,000 when Dangerous Boy Leisure first launched.

He is in search of damages for monetary losses, reinstatement of his 25 p.c possession stake, his 15 p.c annual share together with curiosity, and a forensic audit of Dangerous Boy Leisure’s earnings and income from its inception to the current.

Burrowes’ claims come amid Diddy’s mounting lawsuits as he awaits trial for intercourse trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to interact in prostitution.

The “Dangerous Boy For Life” rapper is at the moment held on the infamous Metropolitan Detention Middle in Brooklyn and has been denied bail a number of instances.

In his lawsuit, Burrowes identified that he shares a detailed tie with Diddy as he is the godfather of the rapper’s first youngster, Justin Combs, and that he attended his christening at a church in Harlem, “underscoring the deep bond and reliance between the households.”

He claimed that when Diddy was fired in 1992 by Uptown Information founder Andre Harrell, he helped him rise above the depressive state throughout which the rapper was allegedly affected by suicidal ideas.

Diddy has beforehand attributed the success of the corporate to Burrowes, telling Billboard in 1997, “Kirk is the one liable for Dangerous Boy’s success and making it the skilled, younger, black-run firm that it has turn out to be.”

Additionally in courtroom paperwork, Burrowes claimed he warmed as much as Smalls in some unspecified time in the future and have become her trusted confidant, including that she opened as much as him and sought his safety when Diddy allegedly abused her.

Burrowes says he allegedly witnessed Diddy’s “risky and abusive habits,” together with an incident the place he bodily assaulted Smalls. Burrowes added that he watched Diddy “aggressively overpowering” his mother and calling her “derogatory slurs.”

“She then, in my eyes, was a mom doing her finest, and she or he needed to calm him down,” he stated of Smalls. “I used to be caught off guard by the mom title and the candy mom persona that she gave, and the energy of her attempting to assist a son who’s in a really troublesome state of affairs.”

“And at the moment, I used to be 1,000% into serving to Sean and ensuring that he’d recover from this. At this time, I’ve a unique view of it,” he added.