Tuesday, March 25, 2008

DIDDY SETTLES OUT OF COURT WITH MAN WHO RAN INTO HIS 'STATIONARY HAND.'

Diddy's dough has gotten him out of trouble once again. The mogul has settled a lawsuit with a man who accused the rap mogul of punching him in the jaw. As reported earlier, Gerard Rechnitzer, a real estate agent, filed a lawsuit against Diddy in March 2007 claiming the mogul punched him in the jaw outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles in February 2007. Rechnitzer said Diddy attacked him while he was trying to stop the Bad Boy mogul from hitting on his fiancé. He also claimed Diddy pushed his fiancé and attempted to spit on a female who was accompanying him and his fiancé. Diddy responded to the claims saying that Rechnitzer attacked him first and that ‘[He] outstretched one of his hands, which was not closed-fisted, to shield [him] self and that any contact between him and Rechnitzer was caused by the real estate agent’s forward motion against [his] stationary open hand.”

The rap and fashion mogul was scheduled to stand trial on assault charges in May (2008), even though he didn't face any criminal charges in relation to the incident because police found no cause for Rechnitzer's complaint when they investigated the altercation. However, last Friday (3.21.2008), Combs' attorney filed a legal document in Los Angeles to say the case has been settled. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed, reports website TMZ.com.

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