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Bay Boy’s co-founding partner Kirk Burrowes is suing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ mom Janice Combs with claims she secretly and unlawfully assumed control of his 25 percent ownership stake in the record label after her son allegedly coerced Burrowes into signing over his share under threat of physical violence.
In a new lawsuit filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, Burrowes claims he only recently learned about Janice’s alleged “fraudulent concealment” of her role in the purported 1996 effort to wrest away his ownership stake and that his allegation is not barred by the normal six-year statute of limitations.
He claims an investigation that started last year uncovered “irrefutable evidence” that in or around 1998, Janice “secretly received and unlawfully [assumed] control of [his] 25% ownership stake in BBE.”
Burrowes, who was Bad Boy’s president before his dramatic ouster, previously sued Sean Combs and lawyer Kenneth Meiselas for allegedly cheating him out of $25 million.
He alleged that in May 1996, Combs stormed into his office wielding a baseball bat and forced him, under duress, to sign a contract that forfeited his ownership rights.
His lawsuit was eventually dismissed as beyond the statute of limitations.
The new lawsuit filed Wednesday by lawyer Tyrone Blackburn claims Burrowes was “ruthlessly betrayed” by Janice when she allegedly conspired with her son to consolidate power and exclude him from the company that he helped start.
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