Michael Volpe Investigates Special Report: an Interview with Derrick Smith
What is the connection between Diddy's rape and cover-up and his alleged false conviction? Derrick tells all.
Last week I broke news about Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Among several lawsuits that Diddy is facing, he is being sued by Derrick Smith.
Unlike other lawsuits, Smith alleges that Diddy engaged in gay rape.
Smith initially won a $100 million judgment, but Diddy’s lawyer was able to claw that back, arguing that Diddy was not sued properly.
Following the news of his Sept. 16 arrest on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution, a judge ruled that the rapper no longer has to pay over $100 million to Michigan inmate Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, who was suing Combs in an unrelated civil case for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting him in 1997.
Combs was originally ordered to pay the large sum Sept. 9, when a Michigan judge granted Cardello-Smith's motion for default judgment after the music mogul did not appear for a virtual hearing.
However, Diddy's attorney David Fink was able to convince the judge to set aside the judgment during a Sept. 18 hearing on the grounds that Cardello-Smith failed to prove he effectively served Combs with the lawsuit in accordance with Michigan law, according to TMZ.
After that legal technicality, an explosive affidavit was filed, tying Diddy to the elected Wayne County Prosecutor, Kym Worthy.
Worthy, according to the affidavit, was Diddy’s long-term fixer, making rape cases go away.
For more on this story, I went directly to the source.
I recently completed a long interview with Mr. Smith from the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Michigan.
That interview is behind the paywall.
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