A would-be, multimillion-dollar RICO lawsuit against Janice Combs, mother to Diddy, has been dismissed.
In a court document viewed by Complex, it’s noted that the claims against Combs under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act are “dismissed with prejudice,” which means the dismissal move is permanent and the case can’t be brought back to a court.
Also noted in the docs are that previously made claims at the state level are dismissed and that the plaintiff “shall take nothing, and defendants shall recover their costs of suit.”
The motion to dismiss had been field own behalf of Combs, Janice Combs Publishing LLC, and Janice Combs Publishing Holdings Inc. The plaintiff in the since-dismissed suit, as noted in previous reports, was Deon Best, who initially sued Diddy’s mother in January in connection with claims of an effort to “defraud him” of various rights and revenues, per TMZ.
The significant legal win for Janice Combs comes ahead of Diddy’s sentencing after a split verdict in his much-discussed New York case. As previously reported, Diddy was ultimately convicted on prostitution-related charges while being found not guilty of the more serious racketeering and sex trafficking counts.
Complex’s Shawn Setaro recently shared a deep-dive on how long, exactly, Diddy could end up being sentenced to in connection with those charges. See it here. The Bad Boy Records mogul’s sentencing, for now, is slated for next month.
Ahead of the sentencing, letters to the judge overseeing the case have been made public, including one from Yung Miami. In her letter, the City Girls rapper called Diddy “a good man” who was “loving, genuine, supportive, and always encouraging” during her relationship with him.
“I want to be clear that I cannot speak on or defend anything that may have happened before I met Sean Combs,” Yung Miami said in her letter, seen in full here. “I do not condone any wrongdoing. I can only speak from my personal experience and the man I’ve come to know over the past four years.”
