Combs sued for $25m

A former business partner is suing Sean “P Diddy” Combs, claiming the rapper threatened him with a baseball bat in 1996 and cheated him out of $25m (€21m).

Kirk Burrowes claims Combs threatened him to force him to sign over a 25% stake in Bad Boy Entertainment, Combs’ music conglomerate. Burrowes claims he was wrongly fired as president of the company.

“Kirk just wants Sean to realise the value he had in making Sean what he is today and to do the right thing,” said Burrowes’ lawyer John Bostany.

In a statement Combs said of the lawsuit: “The allegations are pure fantasy. Kirk Burrowes hasn’t been employed for seven years, and now he makes up a fictional story for financial gain.”

The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Federal Court, also names Bad Boy Entertainment and Kenneth Meiselas, a lawyer for the conglomerate, as defendants.