Kirk Burrowes accused Diddy’s mom, Janice Smalls, of secretly holding his Bad Boy shares for many years and pretending to pay him again.

Kirk Burrowes is doubling down on his authorized battle with Diddy“>Sean “Diddy” Combs by concentrating on the mogul’s mom in a recent court docket submitting that claims she held onto his Bad Boy Entertainment inventory for practically 30 years—then pretended she wished to pay him again.

In a revised grievance, Burrowes alleges that Janice Smalls, Diddy’s mom, secretly held his 25% stake within the label for the reason that Nineties and misled him for many years.

He claims he solely found in 2024 that she, not Diddy, had been accountable for the shares he earned whereas co-founding the Hip-Hop powerhouse.

Burrowes says Smalls “hid her role for decades” and misrepresented her intentions between 2019 and 2021 by requesting his banking particulars below the guise of restitution. He claims she by no means made any funds and had no intention of doing so.

The lawsuit portrays Smalls as an active participant in the early days of Bad Boy, quite than a passive bystander. Burrowes argues she labored from the label’s Times Square workplaces and continues to earn revenue from its enterprise operations in New York.

According to Burrowes, Smalls’ involvement wasn’t restricted to the Nineties.

He factors to 4 separate cases between 1996 and 2021 when she allegedly misled him concerning the standing of his inventory. In one instance, he states that she claimed she had by no means acquired the shares. In one other, she allegedly advised him that accountants would “arrange payment.”

Earlier this week, Janice Smalls referred to as the lawsuit “preposterous” and requested the court docket to dismiss it. Her attorneys argue the case is legally void, expired below the statute of limitations, and lacks jurisdiction.

The court docket had given Burrowes till August 29 to amend his grievance or reply to the dismissal movement. He missed the deadline and later requested an extension, however didn’t observe by way of on it.

Smalls’ authorized group has requested that the decide dismiss the case with prejudice, which might stop Burrowes from refiling.

They additionally declare Burrowes’ authorized motion is a recycled model of two beforehand dismissed lawsuits and was solely revived following Diddy’s latest authorized troubles.

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