Last month, a Colorado inmate filed a lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” Combs, stating that the entertainment mogul wanted him to “arrange s** trafficking of underage children.” When he refused to do so, he alleges Diddy defamed him, and it hurt his drug business.
That lawsuit has not been blocked, on a technicality.
Alfredo P. Gonzalez, who says he is a member of the Sinaloa drug cartel, filed the suit, saying his reputation was ruined in New York’s criminal underworld due to Combs and his associates. In the lawsuit, Gonzalez was seeking damages of $666,000 – a bizarre and ominous amount.
Alfredo claimed in the paperwork that after declining to help Diddy with the sex trafficking, he was informed that his life would be made “hell” due to the “power [Combs] has in the streets.” Gonzalez also states he lost business with New York-based drug business contacts.
Alfredo also claimed – in the lawsuit – to have evidence to prove that he had contact with Diddy. He also claimed to have evidence that could be used to implicate Diddy in child trafficking.
But that alleged evidence will never get a chance to see the light of day.
The incarcerated inmate filed the suit in the Southern District of New York. On Aug. 12, Chief U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the lawsuit, stating the case was frivolous and lacking legal standing.
According to the judge, Alfredo could not bring a case against Diddy, because any harm that Diddy may have done to Alfredo – was impacting his criminal activity. As such, the judge found that he could not bring the lawsuit.
AllHipHop reported that Judge Swain wrote in her decision, “Plaintiff, without any legal bases, appears to assert claims of defamation against the defendants, seeking damages arising from injury incurred to his illegal drug smuggling and sales business caused by the defendant’s alleged defamation of plaintiff because he refused to arrange sex trafficking of underage children for the defendants, including what appears to be international sex trafficking. Since there are no apparent legal bases for any of these claims, the court additionally dismisses plaintiff’s claims as frivolous.”
