(L) 50 Cent and ‘Sean Diddy’ Combs (R)
Days before the release of a Sean “Diddy” Combs documentary, 50 Cent has reached a settlement with a plaintiff who filed an assault lawsuit against him.
Per PEOPLE, the rapper and filmmaker, born Curtis Jackson III, was served with a civil complaint from the plaintiff Guadalupe de los Santos earlier this year.
The complaint stated that the alleged assault happened in Los Angeles in September 2024. De los Santos alleged that he was waiting at a traffic light when an SUV that Jackson was riding in approached him from the back.
De los Santos claimed that the “front passenger door” of Jackson’s SUV then “suddenly and forcefully opened, without warning or provocation, and struck [him] on his left side, knocking him and his scooter to the street.”
The plaintiff further claimed that “an occupant of the SUV, at Defendant’s Jackson’s direction, opened the door to intentionally strike him.”
De los Santos had asked the court to award him damages for assault, battery, intentional affliction of emotional distress, and negligence. He also asked for the amount to be decided at a trial.
The lawsuit was previously filed in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, but it was transferred to the United States District Court for the Central District of Florida in September.
A motion to dismiss the complaint was initially filed by Jackson and his attorneys, with a hearing scheduled for December 22. But the case was ultimately settled between the plaintiff and the defendant this month.
A November 25 motion that was filed stated that de los Santos and Jackson “reached an agreement in principle to resolve all claims” and were “in the process of drafting and executing the formal settlement agreement,” PEOPLE reported.
Jackson reached the settlement days before Netflix released a Sean “Diddy” Combs documentary that he produced. The four-part documentary, according to Netflix, will “lay out the story of a powerful, enterprising man and the gilded empire he built — as well as the underworld that lay just beneath its surface.”
Combs, 56, is serving his 50-month conviction at the Federal Correctional Institution, Fort Dix in New Jersey. The Bad Boy Records founder was handed the punishment after a jury found him guilty of prostitution-related charges. Judge Arun Subramanian also fined him $500,000 and ordered five years of supervised release at a hearing in Manhattan federal court on Friday, October 3.
Combs, who continues to maintain his innocence, had faced up to 20 years behind bars.
