Janice Combs, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom, broke her silence Sunday and admitted she was left “devastated and profoundly saddened” by the allegations waged in opposition to her son, she mentioned in an announcement offered to Fox Information Digital.
Diddy was arrested Sept. 16 and charged the subsequent day with racketeering conspiracy; intercourse trafficking by power, fraud or coercion; and transportation to interact in prostitution. He entered a not responsible plea hours after an indictment detailing his alleged intercourse crimes was unsealed. If discovered responsible, he faces a minimal of 15 years behind bars or a most sentence of life in jail.
“It’s heartbreaking to see my son judged not for the reality, however for a story created out of lies,” Janice Combs wrote. “To bear witness what appears to be like a public lynching of my son earlier than he has had the chance to show his innocence is a ache too insufferable to place into phrases. Like each human being, my son deserves to have his day in court docket, to lastly share his aspect, and to show his innocence.”
She pleaded, “My son will not be the monster they’ve painted him to be, and he deserves the possibility to inform his aspect. I can solely pray that I’m alive to see him communicate his fact and be vindicated.”
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Janice Combs broke her silence Sunday on allegations in opposition to her son, Sean “Diddy” Combs. (Getty Photos)
“I’m not right here to painting my son as excellent as a result of he isn’t,” Janice Combs mentioned. “He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have. My son might not have been fully truthful about sure issues, corresponding to denying he has ever gotten violent with an ex-girlfriend when the resort’s surveillance confirmed in any other case.”Â
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She added, “Typically, the reality and a lie grow to be so intently intertwined that it turns into terrifying to confess one a part of the story, particularly when that fact is exterior the norm or is just too difficult to be believed. Because of this I consider my son’s civil authorized crew opted to settle the ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit as an alternative of contesting it till the tip, leading to a ricochet impact because the federal authorities used this determination in opposition to my son by deciphering it as an act of contrition.”
“I’m not right here to painting my son as excellent as a result of he isn’t. He has made errors in his previous, as all of us have.”
Surveillance video taken from a Los Angeles resort in 2016 allegedly confirmed the billionaire publicly assaulting his then girlfriend Cassie Ventura. Within the footage, Sean Combs “kicked, dragged, and threw a vase at a girl as she was making an attempt to go away,” the indictment mentioned. “When a member of the resort safety employees intervened, Combs tried to bribe the employees member to make sure silence.”
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“It is very important acknowledge that none of us, no matter our standing, are proof against concern or errors,” Janice Combs mentioned. “Not being fully simple about one challenge doesn’t imply my son is responsible of the repulsive allegations and the grave costs leveled in opposition to him. Many people who have been wrongfully convicted and later exonerated had their freedom taken from them not as a result of they have been responsible of the crimes they have been accused of, however as a result of they didn’t match the picture of what this society considers to be a ‘good individual.’ Historical past has confirmed us how people will be wrongfully convicted resulting from their previous actions or errors.”Â
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She continued, “Watching the world make jokes and snicker at my son’s life crumbling earlier than our eyes is one thing I can always remember. It’s actually agonizing to observe the world flip in opposition to my son so shortly and simply over lies and misconceptions, with out ever listening to his aspect or affording him the chance to current his aspect.”Â
Janice Combs urged supporters to be cautious with info whereas her son is ready for his day in court docket. (Getty Photos)
Janice Combs believed folks have been in search of “monetary acquire” by means of telling lies about her son, and never pursuing justice. “These people noticed how shortly my son’s civil authorized crew settled his ex-girlfriend’s lawsuit, in order that they consider they will obtain a fast payday by falsely accusing my son,” she mentioned. “False allegations of sexual assault thwart true victims of sexual violence from getting the justice they deserve.”
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Janice Combs accused the federal authorities of participating in comparable ways “to prosecute my son,” and mentioned the injustice has been “insufferable” on their household.
Diddy has seven kids (three youngsters not pictured) with 4 totally different ladies. (Charley Gallay/Getty Photos for Netflix)
“The worst a part of this ordeal is watching my beloved son be stripped of his dignity, not for what he did, however for what folks select to consider about him,” she mentioned earlier than asking his supporters to not “choose him earlier than you’ve had the possibility to listen to his aspect.”Â
“I encourage you to consider those that have been wrongfully persecuted, to do not forget that not everybody who has made errors in life deserves to have their complete existence judged by a single motion or a couple of errors,” she wrote.Â
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Authorities alleged Diddy ran a prison enterprise by means of his companies, together with Dangerous Boy Leisure, Combs Enterprises and Combs International, amongst others. He used “firearms, threats of violence, coercion and verbal, emotional, bodily, and sexual abuse” to satisfy his sexual needs, based on the unsealed indictment obtained by Fox Information Digital.
Combs’ lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, argued for Diddy’s launch on bail following his arrest on racketeering and intercourse trafficking costs. (Elizabeth Williams through AP)
Sean Combs’ LA house was raided by Homeland Safety officers in March. (Getty Photos)
Diddy and his workers would “intimidate, threaten, and lure feminine victims into Combs’ orbit, usually beneath the pretense of a romantic relationship. Combs allegedly then used power, threats of power and coercion to trigger victims to interact in prolonged intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse staff that Combs known as, amongst different issues, ‘freak offs.'”Â
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Previous to the U.S. Lawyer’s press convention in September, Combs’ legal professional mentioned they plan to struggle for the rapper to be launched.
