Diddy named in new $666,000 Lawsuit filed by imprisoned cartel member over drug business; 50 Cent reacts

Alleged cartel member Alfredo P Gonzalez filed a defamation lawsuit against Diddy in May, accusing him of ruining his drug smuggling business.

A self-proclaimed member of the Sinaloa drug cartel imprisoned in Colorado filed a new lawsuit against disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment, claiming that the rapper destroyed his illicit drug business.

Alfredo P Gonzalez sought $666,000 in damages. However, on August 12, Chief US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain dismissed the case filed in May in the Southern District of New York.

Gonzalez’s complaint again connects Diddy to some of the previously cited allegations against him. Named in several previously filed suits, the “Bad Boy for Life” has been accused of misconduct like sexual assault and sexual trafficking, among others. The Sinaloa drug cartel member’s suit also asserts that Combs and his associates ruined his reputation in the criminal underworld when he refused to help Diddy’s alleged requests to traffic minors for parties.

Diddy’s “business partners” purportedly called Gonzalez in 2021, saying that the rapper wanted to “set up some business deal with the Sinaloa Cartel.” Once Gonzalez, incarcerated in Centennial Correctional Facility in Canon City, declined to assist him, Combs allegedly threatened the plaintiff his life would be made “hell,” thanks to the “power [Combs] has in the streets. Soon after that, the cartel member claims to have lost his New York-based drug business contacts.

Why was the new lawsuit against Diddy dismissed?
As reported by News Nation, Judge Swain ruled that the plaintiff barely had any legal standing to sue the controversial artist because his damages were tied to illegal activities not protected by the law. Furthermore, the court found his accusations lacking “any arguable basis either in law or in fact.”