On the Docket: Diddy & Spin

This week at New York State Supreme Court, among the hundreds of new filings, a few caught our eye:

Kirk Burrowes
vs.
Sean Combs a/k/a “Puff Daddy”, a/k/a “Puffy”, a/k/a “P. Diddy”, a/k/a “Sean John” et al

Summary: In hip hop, old grudges die hard. Burrowes was fired by Diddy as the president of Bad Boy back in 1997 and started managing Mary J. Blige in 1999. He filed a lengthy lawsuit in 2003 claiming that the hip-hop mogul burst into his office with a baseball bat and forced him to give up his share of Bad Boy Entertainment. (He also claimed that Diddy was involved in the murders of Tupac Shakur and Suge Knight’s bodyguard.) That suit was tossed in January 2006.

Now, just five months later, he is suing Diddy for $5 million, claiming that the hip-hop mogul coerced Blige into dropping him as her manager. Plaintiff claims that he also had an agreement with Blige to co-own a record label called Mary J. Blige Entertainment and that they had deals with several artists to be featured on the label. But during a March 2001 photo shoot, Burrowes claims that Diddy told Blige that he wanted to work with her. “Combs invoked favors that he had previously performed for Blige in order to insure her compliance with his request.”

R.R. Donnelly & Sons
vs.
Vibe/Spin Ventures LLC et al

Summary: Pay your bills! R.R. Donnelly claims that it is owed almost $3 million in unpaid bills as part of its three-year contract to design, print and manufacture 12 issues a year of both Spin and Vibe magazines.

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