There is a flurry of documentaries that investigated the accusations of Sean “Diddy” and the Rapmogul complies for defamation about one of them. The case will “be very difficult to win,” a legal expert told Yahoo Entertainment, but a “good strategy … to change the public story,” said another.
Combs’s $ 100 million lawsuit
Combs has submitted a defamation of $ 100 million against NBCuniveral, Peacock and sufficient entertainment Diddy: making a bad boy in New York on February 12. It claims that the defendants “bumplessly and malicious” combine combing of “terrible crimes, including serial murder and sexual abuse of minors – knowing that there is no evidence to support them.”
The film premiered on Peacock on January 14 and contained new interviews with singer Al B. Sure, producer Rodney Jones, lawyer Ariel Mitchell and others.
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The legal team of Combs said in the submission that the documentary claimed that combs sexually abused minors “fully based on a false claim of an anonymous interviewed.” They also claim that “malicious” tries to bind combs to the death of his friends and rivals, including his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter, rappers Christopher “Biggie” Wallace and Heavy D and music Exec Andre Harrell, as well as the suspected attempt Murder on sure.
Combs’ lawyer Erica Wolff, Variety told in a statement that the media company behind the DOC “racet to surpass their competition for the most Salacious Diddy Exposé” and thus “made a conscious decision to cover their own bags at the expense of the truth. Decency and basic standards of professional journalism.
A representative for NBCUIVERSAL has not yet responded to Yahoo Entertainment’s request for comments.
While Combs – who maintains his innocence – has been sued left and right since his ex Cassie Ventura brought her a lawsuit for the sexual abuse of bomb against him in November 2023 and followed other accusations of abuse. Now we see a shift in his legal team that refers to.
On January 22, Combs, which is waiting for a trial on federal sex trade and racketeering -submitted a $ 50 million lawsuit against Nieuwsnation, Combs Court witness Courtney Burgess and Burgess’s lawyer Mitchell. In November, Burgess, a large jury witnessed in the Federal case of Combs, claimed in a November Banfield Interview to have Flash Drives with video from Combs’s alleged ‘freak offs’, including images of eight other celebrities and several minors. Combs’s lawyers said in the court case that Burgess is lying and that such ties do not exist.
Combs has a ‘heavy battle’ in defamatory lawsuits: legal expert
“It is very difficult to win a slander like a celebrity, because the celebrity should not only prove that the statement was a false statement of facts and not an opinion, but they have to prove that the publication knew it was or had it A reckless neglect of his truth, “Lawyer Dina Doll, of Doll Amir Eley in Los Angeles, told Yahoo Entertainment.
Van Combs’s “heavy struggle” said Doll “The documentary contained statements from different people who demonstrably were only their opinion. Publishing an opinion does not create liability among our defamation laws. Moreover, Combs must prove NBCuniversal prove and others have acted with malignancy, In short, a very difficult standard.
Lawyer Jeff Lewis, of the law of Jeff Lewis in LA, said that he would be very surprised if NBCuniversal had no “lawyers who checked this film in advance” to prevent this from happening exactly. According to Lewis, another challenge, according to Lewis, is the Anti-Slapp law of New York, which protects people against accused of exercising their first amendment rights. MSNBC-Gastheer Rachel Maddow submitted an anti-slapp motion when she was sued in New York in New York in 2019 and she not only received a dismissal from the lawsuit, but a quarter of a million dollars in Lawatenhonoraria.
Diddy: making a bad boy premiere on January 14. (Peacock)
Trying to take control of a story that got out of hand can be behind the new court cases of combs.
“His team clearly wants to change the national conversation of ‘Diddy is a criminal suspect who is confronted with sexual charges’ against’ Diddy is busy submitting lawsuits against anyone accusing him of sexual misconduct,” says Lewis.
Doll agreed that Combs had “had a lot of negative press since the criminal charges were brought against him, and especially after the video with Cassie Ventura had leaked”, in which he would have had a good strategy of his in 2016 in a hotel in a hotel Kant to change the public story and to ward attention from his criminal case. “
Lewis said that the flooding of the zone, so to speak with lawsuits that are brought by combs, could help with future jury members.
“Everyone in the audience has heard about large amounts of baby oil,” he said. “Every jury who has heard this case will have those headlines in mind.” However, they can now ‘perhaps also remember the headlines about Diddy’s rights to erase his good name’.
Celebrity Defamation -Rechtszaken dominate the news
At the moment, another conference procedure – Justin Baldoni versus Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds – can often be seen in the news. Chris Brown has Warner Bros. Recently complained about what he claimed was a defamatory documentary about him. And the Johnny Depp v. Amber heard defamation shop was one of the largest headlines in 2022.
“We see more slander cases of celebrities because it is a very effective way for them to combat a bad press,” Doll said. “There is such a thing called the ‘Disputes Privilege’, which allows the parties of a lawsuit to submit claims and government facts that may or may not be true, all without being charged. It has become the most important PR strategy because it protects Diddy and his lawyers against themselves who are being charged because of defamation, because as long as they say it in a legal request, it has broad protection under what is called legal privilege. “
She continued: “Ironically enough, defamatory lawsuits are used to protect celebrities against themselves those potentially difficult explanations. The statements in the archives are then reported on a large scale by the press. The press does the PR work for them, all protected under the procedural rights. “
Lewis said that Depp defeated his ex-wife in that vicious court struggle, hoped hope for other celebrities considering to prosecute for defamation.
“Johnny Depp proved that a person with a very poor public reputation, given that enough lawyer’shonoraria and time, can convince a jury that he should win,” said Lewis. “I think many celebrities who doubted that they could overcome the bad press that feel encouraged by the outcome of the Depp test.”
