Another Diddy of a Lawsuit
P. Diddy's goon squad could be costing the Bad Boy big bucks.
Just a couple of weeks after two men filed a $50 million lawsuit against the rap impresario claiming they were roughed up by his bodyguards for no apparent reason, a New York woman is suing Sean "P. Diddy" Combs for $5 million, alleging one of his brawny bouncers manhandled her in front of his Manhattan restaurant.
The lawsuit, filed in Queens Supreme Court by 35-year-old Stephanie Grieson, claims the six-foot-two, 250-pound Diddy disciple guarding the door at Justin's--the rap impresario's eatery on West 21st street--grabbed the five-foot-two, 115-pound Grieson by the neck and shoved her to the ground when she got into an argument with a friend outside the restaurant.
"He ran over and pounced on my back," Grieson told the New York Post, which first reported the lawsuit. "Both my knees crashed to the ground."
After scolding her ("no fighting in front of this restaurant!"), the bouncer allegedly grabbed Grieson by her lapel and hauled her down the sidewalk away from Justin's.
"He just dropped me and walked away with no regard," Grieson told the paper.
Grieson says she suffered huge gashes on her knees--"down to the white meat"--and has noticeable scars on both her ankles and legs. She also said she attempted to file a police report, but police never took action against the bouncer.
Her attorney, Adam Shapior, called the incident a "senseless" attack whose only design was to keep the rap mogul and his restaurant's rep squeaky clean.
Grieson's complaint seeks $5 million for her pain and suffering (lost wages since apparently she couldn't make it to work with her scraped knee), and plastic surgery to help hide a scar on her left knee.
P. Diddy's attorney, Benjamin Brafman, was quick to dismiss the suit, calling it another veiled shakedown attempt against his celebrity client.
"This lady is in for a rude awakening because unlike other superstars, Puffy fights these baseless lawsuits," Brafman told the Post.
The rap superstar's been racking up lawsuits faster than hits at this point.
On August 11, Thomas Guest, who claims to be one of Puffy's childhood buddies, and another man, Damon Jackson, filed a $25 million suit, claiming Diddy's minions assaulted them outside of the rapper's Daddy's House studio in New York.
In another case, a North Carolina judge ordered the hip-hopster to pay $450,000 (of an initial $2 million judgment) in compensatory damages to a limo driver who says he was beaten by Combs' bodyguards while backstage at a 1995 Mary J. Blige at concert.
Then, there's the $25 million breach-of-contract and racketeering lawsuit filed by Diddy's former pal and business partner Kirk Burrowes on June 30, which accuses Combs of barging into Burrowes' office and threatening him unless he signed over his 25 percent stake in Bad Boy Entertainment.
The legal salvos come as P. Diddy has regained his chart touch. The Puffy-produced, platinum-selling soundtrack to Bad Boys II spent four weeks at number one this summer.
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