Ex-gangster who was an associate of Diddy reveals he is filing a lawsuit against the disgraced mogul's mother

Sean 'Diddy' Combs utilized his mother's sanction to allegedly signifier a transgression endeavor to fell wealth and different concern deals, according to a erstwhile person who worked with the disgraced Bad Boy mogul. 

Deon 'D1' Best appeared connected DailyMail.com's podcast, 'The Trial of Diddy', wherever helium claims Combs utilized his parent Janice's sanction to fell artists' publishing rights, including deals Best said helium brokered successful the precocious 1990s. 

Best claims his company, Finish Line Entertainment, signed artists to Diddy who worked connected assorted albums for Bad Boy, including Christopher 'Notorious B.I.G' Wallace's 1999 'Born Again', which reached platinum presumption and sold implicit 1 cardinal copies.

Best, 56, said the mode Combs allegedly organized his concern deals not lone took publishing rights from him and the artists who worked connected the songs, but bilked them retired of aboriginal earnings. 

'All of my publishing rights went to Janice Combs,' Best told DailyMail.com exclusively. 'I'm present to speech astir a antithetic conception of his allegations... and what I consciousness to judge involves his mother, Janice Combs. The [Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] is astir holding radical accountable for systematic actions.'

He added: 'You know, these actions person caused fiscal hardship, affectional hardship, but not lone myself, but different artists successful the concern done what I consciousness was fraudulent and coercive activity. And I deliberation that Janice Combs falls nether those guidelines.'

Best told DailyMail.com helium plans to writer Janice Combs and her institution due to the fact that the Bad Boy deals were signed to her name. 

Meanwhile, Diddy remains astatine a Brooklyn jailhouse and is facing aggregate national charges, including enactment trafficking and racketeering charges. 

His attorneys person declined to remark connected Best's allegations. DailyMail.com besides reached retired to Janice Combs' attorneys for comment.

Best besides alleged Combs did the aforesaid happening with songs his institution created connected different albums, including rapper Black Rob's 2000 medium 'Life Story' and Combs 'Forever', which besides deed platinum presumption aft it was released successful 1999.

While historically it was not uncommon for grounds statement owners oregon grounds labels to instrumentality a percent of an artist’s publishing arsenic portion of their signing deal, artists person since pushed backmost due to the fact that of the imaginable aboriginal net their songs could garner.

Other artists who worked with Combs, including Mark Curry, person alleged Diddy was capable to circumvent definite deals due to the fact that helium allegedly utilized Janice Combs to seal the deals.

In a viral 2020 rant, rapper Mason 'Ma$e' Betha claimed Diddy besides took his publishing rights away.

'How situation this n***a talking astir helium privation receipts,' Ma$e said of Combs successful the clip. 'Let’s commencement with your mother, n***a. Your parent got the receipts, n***a. Everything is successful your mother’s name. That’s the 1 who’s got the receipts, n***a.'

Best, who has near pack beingness and has turned to religion and present coaches younker sports, said helium became friends with Combs and Notorious B.I.G. aft they met astatine parties successful L.A. that were frequented by Hollywood A-Listers.

Best said the Bad Boy shaper would telephone him up for extortion and 'check in' to spot if it was harmless for him to beryllium successful definite areas of LA. 

It was besides astatine this constituent that Death Row's Suge Knight, who hails from Compton, had allegedly threatened Combs, Best claims.

'So you know, by this being my hometown, I knew however to maneuver done the community, done the streets,' Best said. 'Let's conscionable accidental everybody was alert that Suge Knight and Puffy had a situation. 

'Suge is simply a large guy. I'm not a large guy, but I had the benignant of narration with Suge that I could say, "You know, Suge, easiness up." And, you know, helium would respect the situation.'

As Combs and his artists came to LA to enactment connected euphony oregon to party, helium became adjacent to Wallace, who was much calm than the 'arrogant' Combs, Best said.

He claims helium was with Wallace the nighttime helium was killed during a drive-by shooting connected March 9, 1997 conscionable extracurricular the Petersen Automotive Museum wherever Vibe magazine’s Soul Train Awards aft enactment was held.

Best said helium had warned Wallace that week to support adjacent to him portion helium was successful LA. On that peculiar night, Best said Wallace and him were concisely separated arsenic they were leaving the party. 

The adjacent happening helium heard were the fatal shots that would yet termination Wallace. 

'I ne'er understood however helium wasn't with maine erstwhile we exit done the door,' Best said. 'I deliberation astir it much today. I felt similar idiosyncratic virtually lured him distant from me, pulled him distant and similar said, "Let's spell this way."

He continued, 'I tried to explicate that to him, "You know, man, you can't conscionable beryllium moving astir by yourself."'

Best said helium believes Biggie, who was Bad Boy's astir lucrative artists, was looking to permission the statement and Combs close earlier his death. 

Best said helium was not amazed the erstwhile mogul is facing a imaginable beingness condemnation if helium is convicted connected each charges.

He added watching the now viral video of Combs attacking his erstwhile girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, successful 2016 astatine a edifice successful Los Angeles angered him.

'That video of Cassie broke my heart,' Best said. 'I person 2 daughters, a mother, sisters. It's like, "Wow, you tin footwear connected Cassie but you don't privation to basal up to Suge?"'