50 Cent settles assault lawsuit before release of Diddy documentary he produced

Days earlier than the discharge of a Sean “Diddy” Combs documentary, 50 Cent has reached a settlement with a plaintiff who filed an assault lawsuit towards him. 

Per PEOPLE, the rapper and filmmaker, born Curtis Jackson III, was served with a civil grievance from the plaintiff Guadalupe de los Santos earlier this yr. 

The grievance said that the alleged assault occurred in Los Angeles in September 2024. De los Santos alleged that he was ready at a visitors mild when an SUV that Jackson was using in approached him from the again. 

De los Santos claimed that the “entrance passenger door” of Jackson’s SUV then “all of the sudden and forcefully opened, with out warning or provocation, and struck [him] on his left aspect, knocking him and his scooter to the road.”

The plaintiff additional claimed that “an occupant of the SUV, at Defendant’s Jackson’s path, opened the door to deliberately strike him.”

De los Santos had requested the courtroom to award him damages for assault, battery, intentional affliction of emotional misery, and negligence. He additionally requested for the quantity to be determined at a trial.

The lawsuit was beforehand filed within the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, however it was transferred to the US District Court docket for the Central District of Florida in September.

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A movement to dismiss the grievance was initially filed by Jackson and his attorneys, with a listening to scheduled for December 22. However the case was in the end settled between the plaintiff and the defendant this month. 

A November 25 movement that was filed said that de los Santos and Jackson “reached an settlement in precept to resolve all claims” and had been “within the technique of drafting and executing the formal settlement settlement,” PEOPLE reported.

Jackson reached the settlement days earlier than Netflix releases a Sean “Diddy” Combs documentary that he produced. The four-part documentary, in line with Netflix, will “lay out the story of a strong, enterprising man and the gilded empire he constructed — in addition to the underworld that lay simply beneath its floor.”

Combs, 56, is serving his 50-month conviction on the Federal Correctional Establishment, Fort Dix in New Jersey. The Unhealthy Boy Data founder was handed the punishment after a jury discovered him responsible of prostitution-related expenses. Choose Arun Subramanian additionally fined him $500,000 and ordered 5 years of supervised launch at a listening to in Manhattan federal courtroom on Friday, October 3. 

Combs, who continues to keep up his innocence, had confronted as much as 20 years behind bars.

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