Janice Smalls fired again at a decades-old lawsuit claiming she helped Diddy steal Bad Boy possession from Kirk Burrowes.

Janice Smalls is looking BS on a lawsuit that claims she helped her son Diddy screw over a former Bad Boy exec out of hundreds of thousands—saying she had nothing to do with that mess and desires the entire thing tossed.

The 84-year-old mother of the Hip-Hop mogul is combating again in Manhattan federal courtroom, the place Kirk Burrowes is suing over a chunk of Bad Boy Entertainment he says was snatched from him again within the ’90s.

Burrowes is coming for Diddy, his longtime lawyer Kenneth Meiselas, and now Smalls—claiming she performed clean-up crew after he was allegedly compelled to surrender his 25% stake and 15% revenue minimize in 1996.

Smalls says that’s all cap.

In new courtroom papers, she’s asking the choose to close it down, saying she’s by no means owned a chunk of Bad Boy, had zero involvement within the alleged strong-arm play and hasn’t even lived in New York since 2012.

She’s been in Florida, minding her enterprise and paying taxes like everybody else.

Burrowes has already tried to get this case off the bottom—twice.

First in 2003, then once more in state courtroom. Both bought booted for being well beyond the deadline. Smalls’ legal professionals say this third strive is extra of the identical, calling it “frivolous” and “preposterous.”

Burrowes claims Diddy and Meiselas threatened him into signing over his stake and says Smalls later helped cover the entire thing.

He even says she admitted it at a Diana Ross get together in 2019. But Smalls’ staff says even when that have been true, the statute of limitations nonetheless ran out earlier than Burrowes filed in 2025.

The authorized squad additionally argues that the fraud claims don’t have the receipts required beneath courtroom guidelines, and that the remainder of the lawsuit is only a remix of outdated contract beefs dressed up as new fees.

They say the “unjust enrichment” and “conversion” claims are principally the identical factor, that the patron fraud regulation doesn’t apply, and that “civil conspiracy” isn’t even a legitimate declare in New York with no actual crime to again it.

Bottom line, Smalls says she’s not the villain right here and desires out of this authorized circus.

The choose hasn’t dominated but, and Burrowes’ legal professionals haven’t mentioned a phrase.

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