{"id":4429,"date":"2025-02-28T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddys-mother-sued-by-former-bad-boy-president-for-financial-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:05:00","slug":"diddys-mother-sued-by-former-bad-boy-president-for-financial-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/diddys-mother-sued-by-former-bad-boy-president-for-financial-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Diddy’s Mother Sued By Former Bad Boy President for Financial Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tF<\/span>ormer Bad Boy Entertainment president Kirk Burrowes<\/strong> has sued Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 mother, Janice Small <\/strong>(a.k.a. Janice Combs), for allegedly coordinating with her famous son and other co-conspirators to forcefully strip him of his alleged ownership stake in the iconic hip-hop label.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer the complaint \u2014 filed by attorney Tyrone Blackburn<\/strong> on Wednesday (Feb. 26) in the Southern District of New York \u2014 Burrowes claims that alongside her son, then-Bad Boy Entertainment attorney Kenneth Meiselas<\/strong> and other unknown co-conspirators, Smalls illegally seized his alleged 25% financial stake in Bad Boy and his 15% share of the label\u2019s annual earnings through \u201cintimidation, violence, fraudulent, misrepresentation and financial concealment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe complaint references a specific incident in May 1996 during which he claims Combs stormed into his office and proceeded to threaten him while wielding a baseball bat. Fearing for his safety, Burrowes \u2014 who claims to have co-founded the label \u2014 claims he signed a contract under duress without seeking any legal counsel, effectively conveying what he claims was his 25% interest in Bad Boy to Combs.<\/p>\n

\n\tBurrowes, who says he served as Bad Boy\u2019s COO\/GM at the time of the 1996 incident (he was promoted to president the following year) and was \u201cinstrumental in shaping the company\u2019s success,\u201d alleges that losing out on his claimed 25% ownership stake and Bad Boy stock options caused him \u201csignificant financial compensation and employment benefits\u201d along with \u201cirreparable personal, psychological and professional harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSmalls carefully maintained a facade of integrity, portraying herself as an innocent bystander while orchestrating plaintiff\u2019s financial and professional downfall behind the scenes,\u201d the complaint reads.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lawsuit further claims that Smalls requested Burrowes\u2019 counsel as recently as 2021 on a documentary about the history of Bad Boy, but that she ultimately reneged on their compensation agreement.<\/p>\n

\n\tBurrowes previously filed suit against Combs over the alleged 1996 incident in 2003, but that earlier complaint was eventually dismissed in 2004 by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. (Combs is currently behind bars awaiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges in a wide-ranging criminal case.)<\/p>\n

\n\tBurrowes is seeking the return of his alleged 25% Bad Boy stake or compensatory damages matching the value of that stake, as well as an audit of Bad Boy\u2019s earnings since the company\u2019s origination.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast April, Burrowes\u2019 attorney Blackburn was referred to the grievance committee for New York\u2019s federal court district by Judge Denise Cote<\/strong> for his alleged history of frivolous lawsuits. The judge cited his conduct in five different cases and claimed his filings featured \u201cglaring deficiencies.\u201d Two months prior, Blackburn had filed a sprawling lawsuit against Combs on behalf of producer Rodney \u201cLil Rod\u201d Jones Jr., who accused the mogul of sexual assault, sex trafficking and various other forms of misconduct.<\/p>\n

\n\tBillboard <\/em>reached out to Combs Global in an effort to reach a representative for Smalls but did not hear back by press time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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