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Janice Small Combs is defending her famous person son, Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The musician and producer is at present in federal custody as he awaits trial for his indictment in the Southern District of New York on counts of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking and transportation to interact in prostitution. He has pleaded not responsible.
Combs can be going through a number of civil lawsuits accusing him of a spread of sexual misconduct and different criminal activity.
Janice Combs launched an announcement on Sunday by means of her legal professional, which was shared on social media.
“I come to you immediately as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made in opposition to my son, Sean Combs,” her assertion started.
“It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies,” she wrote. “To bear witness what looks like a public lynching of my son earlier than he’s had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases.”
The case has put a highlight on the music mogul’s alleged life-style away from public view. Of their indictment, federal prosecutors cited alleged “Freak Offs,” Sean Combs’ title for elaborate intercourse performances by which he’s accused of drugging and coercing victims into performing prolonged intercourse acts with male intercourse staff, starting round 2009.
Janice Combs additionally addressed a surveillance video obtained by CNN that confirmed Sean Combs assaulting his then-girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, in 2016 in a Los Angeles resort.
“My son might not have been fully truthful about sure issues, resembling denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case,” she wrote in her assertion. “Generally, the reality and a lie grow to be so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is exterior the norm or is just too sophisticated to be believed.”
Sean Combs initially denied allegations of abusing Ventura, which had been included in a lawsuit she filed earlier than the video was made public. Following the discharge of the video, he apologized.
“I used to be disgusted then after I did it. I’m disgusted now. I went and I sought out skilled assist. I acquired into going to remedy, going to rehab,” Combs said in a video shared on social media days after the video was broadcast. “I needed to ask God for his mercy and charm. I’m so sorry. However I’m dedicated to be a greater man each day. I’m not asking for forgiveness. I’m really sorry.”
His mom wrote that she believes her son’s “civil authorized staff opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as a substitute of contesting it till the top, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this resolution in opposition to my son by deciphering it as an request for forgiveness.”
“It is very important acknowledge that none of us, no matter our standing, are proof against worry or errors,” she wrote. “Not being fully easy about one concern doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave costs leveled in opposition to him.”
Final week Houston-based legal professional Tony Buzbee, together with the AVA Regulation Group, introduced that they had been retained by at least 120 additional men and women “to pursue circumstances in civil courtroom” in opposition to Combs.
CNN has reached out to attorneys for Combs for remark about his mom’s assertion.