A prisoner from Michigan has been awarded $100 million in a civil suit he filed against Sean “Diddy” Combs regarding an alleged sexual assault from 1997.

Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, who initiated the lawsuit against Diddy in June, received the judgment during a hearing on Monday at the Lenawee County Circuit Court in Michigan, as reported by YSL News on Tuesday.

A default judgment occurs when one party involved in a case does not respond to a summons or fails to show up in court. Court records indicate that Diddy has not submitted any responses or appeared in court regarding this case.

“This man is a convicted felon and sexual predator, having been sentenced on 14 counts of sexual assault and kidnapping in the past 26 years,” stated Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, in a response to YSL News on Tuesday. “His record now includes committing fraud on the court while incarcerated, as Mr. Combs has never heard of him, nor has he been served with any lawsuit. Mr. Combs anticipates that this judgment will be overturned swiftly.”

In the court filings, Cardello-Smith claimed he met Diddy at an after party at a Holiday Inn in Detroit in June 1997. He was drinking with the music producer and some women, initially believing Diddy was a “nice normal guy.” Cardello-Smith later stated that he went into a private hotel room with Diddy and two women, accompanied by two security guards.

He alleged that as he began to engage with one of the women, he felt Diddy touch him inappropriately. Feeling uncomfortable, Cardello-Smith stated that he pulled back, and Diddy responded by offering him a drink.

“I stayed sitting there and started getting sleepy and felt myself almost passing out,” he recounted in his complaint from June. “Then Sean Combs said to me, ‘I put a little something in it for you. I’m going to get that from you one way or another.'”

Cardello-Smith claimed he woke up to find himself injured and bleeding. “I ran out and never returned,” he remarked. He stated that he reported the incident to the police, but did not clarify what happened afterward. He mentioned feeling unable to share his experience due to fear.

Cardello-Smith is currently representing himself in this legal matter. He is serving a sentence of up to 75 years for charges related to first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping, stemming from offenses committed in 2008 and 2019, at the Earnest C. Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. Additionally, he was convicted of third-degree sexual conduct in 1998.

The story is ongoing.