A Michigan inmate with a history of filing civil lawsuits has been awarded a $100 million default judgment against entertainment mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The judgment, handed down by Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Anna Marie Anzalone, follows a temporary restraining order issued in August in favor of Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, 51.
According to court documents, Cardello-Smith alleges that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted him at a Detroit party in 1997. Cardello-Smith, who claims to have encountered Combs while working in Detroit’s hospitality industry, is currently serving an unrelated sentence at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights.
Cardello-Smith, a self-taught legal expert, provided prison visitation records showing Combs’s name and claimed that Combs had offered him $2.3 million to drop the case—an offer he refused. In August, Judge Anzalone issued an order preventing Combs from selling assets that could be used to pay damages. Cardello-Smith is among a growing list of plaintiffs accusing Combs of violence and sexual misconduct.
In court, Cardello-Smith recounted a conversation in which Combs allegedly dismissed his legal threats, saying, “You know how we get down.”
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