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Legal
Diddy sued over shooting at his restaurant
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 20 July 2011
P Diddy only recently settled legal claims made against him relating to a shooting that occurred in a New York club where he was socialising in 1999, and now the hip hopper is again being accused of liability for a shooting that he wasn’t really involved in.
As previously reported, after the 1999 incident an associate of Diddy’s was jailed for involvement in the shooting, which was the basis for the claims made by victims of the shoot out that the rapper should be liable for their suffering. The cases never got to court, with settlements being reportedly reached earlier this year.
In the new case Diddy is facing action from a man who was injured during a shooting in the car park of an Atlanta restaurant owned by the hip hop mogul. Leroy Austin, a cousin of former Universal and Warner exec Kevin Liles as it happens, claims that Diddy’s company should have provided better security at the eatery to protect its customers from any violence. It adds that the restaurant’s management knew there were “dangerous and hazardous conditions” around their property when the shooting occurred in November 2010, but failed to warn him of that fact.
Neither the restaurant’s management nor owner Diddy have responded to the lawsuit as yet.
