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Diddy Driven To Settle
If there's one thing Diddy hates, it's being taken for a ride.
Sean Combs has reached a settlement with a limousine driver who claimed he was severely beaten by the rap impresario's bodyguards during a 1995 Mary J. Blige concert in North Carolina.
According to published reports, Combs' legal eagles sealed the deal with an attorney for Cedrick Bobby Lemon on Monday, following a morning hearing in which they initially filed a petition to dismiss the chauffeur's 2002 civil suit.
"We amicably settled, and that's all we can say," Lemon's lawyer, Herman Stephens, told the Associated Press.
Combs' camp was unavailable for comment, though his lawyer had previously called the allegations bogus.
No word if the hip-hopster coughed up any Benjamins to make the complaint go away. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
Per the civil suit, the driver accused Combs' goon squad of going gangsta on him while he was standing near Blige's dressing room in Joel Coliseum, even though he had the proper backstage badge. Lemon alleged the bodyguards punched and kicked him, breaking his ankle as they tried to clear the area so the songstress could make her way to the stage.
The complaint held Combs negligible for failing to properly train his posse when he loaned them out to Blige, whose career Diddy was managing at the time.
But given past legal decisions in the case, we can't imagine Lemon got much.
After the rapper failed to respond to the allegations in the complaint, either in writing or turning up in court as required by law, Forsythe County Superior Court Judge William Z. Wood issued a default judgment of $2.45 million against Combs. However, two months later the judge reversed himself and lowered the damages to $450,000.
That award was eventually thrown out altogether when the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that Lemon's case didn't meet the standards of a default judgment. The money was supposed to cover $14,400 in medical bills to treat the ankle as well as pain and suffering caused by the beating, including a bad back, which allegedly kept him from fulfilling his chauffeuring duties.
Combs also made headlines last week for a separate legal matter, this one involving his ongoing paternity woes.
The New York State Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by the artist to overturn a lower court ruling ordering him to pay more than $119,000 a month in child support to ex-gal-pal Misa Hylton-Brim for the care of their 12-year-old son, Justin.
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