‘A public lynching’: Diddy’s mother defends her son amid sex charges

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The parent of Sean “Diddy” Combs wants the satellite to cognize her lad — who has been indicted connected national enactment trafficking charges and faces over 120 allegations of intersexual assault — is “not a monster.”

Janice Small Combs provided a lengthy connection to The Hollywood Reporter connected behalf of the Combs household connected Sunday.

She said Diddy is not blameworthy of the galore allegations presently against him, but has “made mistakes successful the past, arsenic we each have.” (For his part, the euphony mogul has denied each of the accusations against him and pleaded not blameworthy successful court.)

Through her lawyer, Natlie G. Figgers, she likened the increasing fig of ineligible claims against her son, and the aggravated nationalist interest, to “a nationalist lynching.”

She said it has been “agonizing to ticker the satellite crook against my son” without proceeding his broadside of the story. Janice’s connection began: “I travel to you contiguous arsenic a parent that is devastated and profoundly saddened by the allegations made against my son, Sean Combs.”

“It is heartbreaking to spot my lad judged not for the truth, but for a communicative created retired of lies,” she continued. “Like each quality being, my lad deserves to person his time successful court, to yet stock his side, and to beryllium his innocence.”

Janice speculated Diddy’s galore accusers are falsely looking for a “quick payday” pursuing the colony of a suit filed by Diddy’s erstwhile girlfriend, vocalist Cassie Ventura, past November.

Ventura said she endured years of sexual, carnal and affectional abuse astatine the hands of Diddy. He initially denied Ventura’s allegations but aboriginal publically apologized aft surveillance video showed the instrumentalist motorboat a brutal carnal assault against Ventura successful a edifice successful 2016.

Janice said Diddy “may not person been wholly truthful astir definite things,” namely his battle connected Ventura. She maintained she does not privation to represent her lad arsenic a cleanable person, “because helium is not.”

“Sometimes, the information and a prevarication go truthful intimately intertwined that it becomes terrifying to admit 1 portion of the story, particularly erstwhile that information is extracurricular the norm oregon is excessively analyzable to beryllium believed,” she wrote. “This is wherefore I judge my son’s civilian ineligible squad opted to settee the ex-girlfriend’s suit alternatively of contesting it until the end, resulting successful a ricochet effect arsenic the national authorities utilized this determination against my lad by interpreting it arsenic an admittance of guilt.”

Janice said galore radical person historically been wrongfully convicted and aboriginal exonerated “because they didn’t acceptable the representation of what this nine considers to beryllium a ‘good person.'”

She said the “injustice” of her son’s prosecution has been “unbearable” for the Combs family.

Janice wrote: “The worst portion of this ordeal is watching my beloved lad beryllium stripped of his dignity, not for what helium did, but for what radical take to judge astir him.”

She asked radical to withhold their judgement connected Diddy until helium tin stock his perspective.

“My lad is not the monster they person painted him to be, and helium deserves the accidental to archer his side,” the connection concludes. “I tin lone commune that I americium live to spot him talk his information and beryllium vindicated.”

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Diddy was arrested past period pursuing a raid of his Los Angeles and Miami mansions by U.S. national agents.

A national indictment unsealed Sept. 17 revealed Diddy was charged with racketeering, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. The charges are tied to alleged “freak offs,” coerced enactment acts that Diddy allegedly orchestrated and recorded. The “freak offs” often progressive narcotic drugs including ketamine, ecstasy and GHB to support victims “obedient and compliant,” officials allege.

Last week, Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee said he’s representing 120 accusers who person shared dozens of caller claims against the musician, including rape and intersexual battle dating backmost to 1991. Among the accusers are women, men and minors.

Diddy has denied each caller allegations against him and maintains his innocence.

He has been denied bail doubly and remains down bars.

Diddy is adjacent owed successful tribunal connected Wednesday, wherever his lawyers are again expected to petition bail.

— With files from Global News’ Michelle Butterfield

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