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P. Diddy: A Real Bad Boy?
P. Diddy steps up to the plate...swings...and it's a hit.
Sean Combs dreaming of being the next Derek Jeter? Nope, that's apparently how the hip-hop mogul conducts his business, or so a former partner contends in a new $25 million lawsuit.
Kirk Burrowes, a onetime friend and Bad Boy Entertainment peer of Combs, dropped by the federal courthouse in Manhattan Monday to lodge a breach-of-contract and racketeering suit against the Puffster that, among other claims, alleges a baseball bat-wielding Combs stormed into Burrowes' office and threatened to make like Robert De Niro in The Untouchables unless Burrowes signed over his 25 percent stake in Bad Boy.
Burrowes, reportedly godfather to Combs' son Justin, says he and Combs cofounded Bad Boy in 1992, with Burrowes securing one-quarter ownership in what would become one of hip-hop's hugest forces, releasing mega-selling albums by P. Diddy, Notorious B.I.G., Ma$e and Faith Evans. But Bad Boy has struggled in recent years, and distributor Arista severed ties with the company last year; Combs signed a new deal, valued between $25 million and $50 million, with Universal Music in February.
"Kirk just wants Sean to realize the value he had in making Sean what he is today and to do the right thing," Burrowes' lawyer, John Bostany, tells the New York Daily News.
"The allegations are pure fantasy," Combs said in a statement on Tuesday. "Kirk Burrowes hasn't been employed for seven years, and now he makes up a fictional story for financial gain. He should be ashamed of himself."
Burrowes, 40, says he was earning $125,000 a year as Bad Boy's president and general manager before he was, um, whacked in 1996. Despite his dismissal, Burrowes contends Combs later apologized for the Louisville Slugger incident and initially promised to give Burrowes a share in the company's profits, only to renege last year.
Burrowes also says his management deal with Mary J. Blige was torpedoed by Combs.
Aside from Combs, the suit names Bad Boy Entertainment and company lawyer Kenneth Meiselas as defendants.
True or not, as reputed rap shakedowns go, the Puffy-at-the-plate claim is bush league compared to the alleged exploits of his West Coast rival, Suge Knight. Vanilla Ice once contended the oversized Death Row overlord dangled the rapper out of a window until he signed over royalty rights to "Ice, Ice Baby." Knight denied the allegation.
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