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Former Diddy employee accuses rapper of ageism
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 3 September 2010
A former employee of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Bad Boy Entertainment has accused the rapper of firing her on the grounds that she was too old. Francesca Spero, who is 51, filed an age discrimination lawsuit in New York on Wednesday.
In court documents, Spero states that she met Combs in 1988 and got a job at Uptown Records after he introduced her to owner Russell Simmons. A decade later, she moved to Bad Boy Entertainment, where she worked for twelve years before being fired in March after undergoing hip surgery and admitting to a company executive that she was being treated for drug dependency.
Combs’ publicist told reporters: “There are many reasons why Ms Spero is no longer employed by Bad Boy, but age discrimination is not one of them”.
