Diddyis fighting back against the massive $100 million default judgment levied against him this week… claiming he never received a copy of the lawsuit — and even if he had, the statute of limitations ran out years ago.
The controversial music mogul filed an emergency motion to dismiss the massive trial on Thursday… saying the plaintiff, Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, he was never brought to justice—and he didn’t know he had to deal with it until the media began reporting on the trial.
It’s worth noting… Diddy’s lawyers aren’t just trying to get the case dismissed for failing to notify him properly — they’re wholeheartedly denying all wrongdoing. They say the “seemingly implausible allegations are completely fabricated.”
Even if the allegations were true — which, again, Diddy’s lawyers say they are not — they say the statute of limitations ran out nearly 17 years ago.
Diddy’s camp is also criticizing the lawsuit as frivolous … because they say the man who filed it is a convicted rapist who is lying about every single claim in the lawsuit. They also claim he has a history of filing lawsuits that courts have labeled as frivolous.
In case you missed it… Cardello-Smith was awarded $100 million from a judge after Diddy failed to respond to Cardello-Smith’s complaint filed in June.
Cardello-Smith claims that in 1997 he and Diddy were having sex with a group of women when he felt Diddy’s hand touch his butt. He claims Diddy then slipped something into his drink and — when he woke up — Diddy implied that he had sexually assaulted Cardello-Smith.
The judge set a payment schedule: $10 million a month starting Oct. 1.