It was a busy day in the pop courts yesterday. Aside from the
Jacko shenanigans, there was some extra work for P Diddy’s lawyers when publishing firm Random House announced they were suing the hip hop mogul over allegations he did not pay back a $300,000 advance that they paid him for an autobiography he never completed. The legal papers issued allege that Sean Combs and his Bad Boy Entertainment company "simply kept the money they never rightfully earned”.
The publisher says: "Random House has seldom resorted to a legal course of action with its prospective authors who don't write the books we have contracted for, but Mr. Sean Combs has left us no choice. He signed an agreement with our Ballantine imprint in 1998 to write his autobiography, which he agreed to complete and deliver to us in 1999. We now have waited for over five years and have received neither the manuscript nor the return of the money we advanced Mr Combs."
Combs’
people admitted that there was a “disagreement” between
Diddy and Random House, but added they they hoped to avoid litigation and said: “we anticipate that this will be resolved quickly."