Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom, Janice Combs, broke her silence after her son’s arrest for intercourse trafficking and racketeering.
In a press release shared Sunday by her lawyer, Natlie G. Figgers, Janice mentioned that the 54-year-old rapper is harmless of the sexual abuse allegations and isn’t a “monster.”
“I come to you at the moment as a mom that’s devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made towards 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.
“My son is just not the monster they’ve painted him to be, and he deserves the possibility to inform his facet. I can solely pray that I’m alive to see him communicate his reality and be vindicated,” she continued.
Janice defined that Diddy — who has been denied bail twice since his Sept. 16 arrest as he stays behind bars in Brooklyn — isn’t “excellent” and famous that he’s “made errors in his previous.”
“My son might not have been fully truthful about sure issues, comparable to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the lodge’s surveillance confirmed in any other case,” she went on, referring to the 2016 footage printed earlier this 12 months exhibiting Diddy bodily assaulting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a lodge.
Earlier than the video got here out, Diddy denied Ventura’s accusations of sexual assault and settled a lawsuit that she filed towards him in in the future. He later apologized for his habits after the video leaked, although he didn’t acknowledge Ventura, 38, by identify.
Janice’s assertion continued, “Typically, the reality and a lie turn into so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that reality is exterior the norm or is simply too difficult to be believed. That is why I consider my 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 choice towards my son by decoding it as an act of contrition.”
“Not being fully easy about one problem doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave fees leveled towards him,” Janice continued. “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.’ Historical past has confirmed us how people might be wrongfully convicted resulting from their previous actions or errors.”
“It’s actually agonizing to observe the world flip towards my son so rapidly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his facet or affording him the chance to current his facet,” she added.
Janice blasted Diddy’s accusers for being “motivated” by “monetary acquire, and never justice.” She additionally blamed the federal authorities for “utilizing these lies to prosecute my son.”
“This injustice has been insufferable for our household,” Janice went on. “The worst a part of this ordeal is watching my beloved son be stripped of his dignity, not for what he did, however for what folks select to consider about him.”
Diddy is being charged with intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation to interact in prostitution.
In a bombshell indictment unsealed final month, prosecutors claimed that the well-known music producer carried out a “decades-long sample of bodily and sexual violence towards a number of victims.”
Diddy allegedly orchestrated elaborate, drug-laced “Freak Off” intercourse classes — which typically lasted for days — the place he compelled girls into intercourse acts with male prostitutes whereas he masturbated and secretly filmed, prosecutors alleged.
The “Coming Residence” rapper has additionally been accused of sexually assaulting greater than 100 folks, together with a 9-year-old.
Diddy has pleaded not responsible on all counts. His subsequent courtroom look is scheduled for Wednesday.
His lawyer has insisted their shopper is harmless.
“Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any declare that he sexually abused anybody, together with minors,” Diddy’s lawyer mentioned in a press release.
“He appears to be like ahead to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in courtroom if and when claims are filed and served, the place the reality will likely be established based mostly on proof, not hypothesis.”
