For Encore, Diddy Beats Rap Again
Can't nobody break Diddy's stride.
The rap impresario otherwise known as Sean Combs emerged victorious--again--in a long-running Michigan civil suit accusing him of siccing his bodyguards on a television talk-show host.
A state appeals court unanimously upheld a 2004 jury verdict in favor of Diddy in a lawsuit brought by the host, Roger Mills. He sued Diddy and his Bad Boy label in Wayne County Circuit Court in 2001, claiming he was roughed-up by the rapper's security detail after an interview in which he asked if Diddy was somehow involved in Notorious B.I.G.'s shooting death.
Mills cried foul and appealed, only to be handed a second defeat Friday as all three appellate court judges upheld the ruling in Diddy's favor. Mills had claimed a taped telephone conversation between him and a Diddy bodyguard should have been played for the Detroit jury last year, but the appellate panel unanimously said the outcome of the case would have been the same regardless, deeming the tape did not prove Diddy authorized an assault.
The dust-up dates back to a 1999 sit-down between Mills and Diddy (who at the time was still going by P. Diddy). At one point Mills asked: "Did you have Notorious B.I.G. killed?" Diddy immediately halted the interview and directed his bodyguards to snatch the tape of the Q&A session.
Detroit police at the time acknowledged that Mills was assaulted, but they were unable to make any arrests since there were no witnesses at the scene other than Mills and Diddy's people.
There was no immediate comment from Diddy on the ruling. He was too busy partying up this weekend in Miami, where he was hosting the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards.





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