Thursday, September 2, 2010

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was hit with a $12M lawsuit

P. Diddy is being sued by a woman named Francesca Spero for $12 million. She claims she helped launch the music mogul's career, but was canned from his company, Bad Boy, because she had hip surgery in 2008.


According to the 51 year old’s legal claim, Diddy, real name Sean Combs, was “unsympathetic to her condition” and tried to push her out of the company.  In March 2010, she was fired and replaced by a woman much younger who "lacked the skill set and experience Spero brought to the position".

Her lawyer Laurie Berke-Weiss said: "Francesca Spero opened the door for Combs' career and, now that she's 51, he showed her the door at Bad Boy."  Spero says she first met Diddy in 1998, but didn’t start working for him until 10 years later when she helped him sign new song writers, get music clearances for corporate endorsements, execute Bad Boy's $38 million deal with Warner Brothers and produce the MTV reality show Making the Band.

However, according to her lawsuit, after surgery to treat a hip misalignment, he allegedly said she earned too much money for "someone who could no longer keep up with his fast-paced lifestyle" and fired her.

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