According to legal documents obtained by The Blast, Sean “Diddy” Combs has been sued by a former nanny to his children for alleged discrimination.
The woman – who at press time has chosen to remain anonymous – claimed that the superstar musician’s late partner Kim Porter hired her as an assistant prior to giving birth to twin girls D’Lila Star and Jessie James in 2006, whom Porter shared with the music mogul along with an older son Christian and Kim’s son Quincy from a previous relationship. And according to TMZ, the plaintiff also says that she is Porter’s niece.
After Porter passed away in 2018 from lobar pneumonia Combs allegedly offered the woman a full-time live-in position at his estate where she became a nanny to the twins.
According to legal documents, the woman claimed that she announced her own pregnancy in August 2020 and asked for maternity leave – a request that reportedly angered Combs. After beginning “a campaign to get her fired”, Combs terminated the nanny’s employment, saying she was “being fired because she was pregnant and unmarried, which purportedly set a bad example for Sean Combs’ daughters”, the documents state.
The woman additionally accused Combs of neglecting to compensate her for overtime, let her take meals or rest periods, or provide her with accurate or “timely” wage statements. The complaint concluded that Combs’ “discrimination” and “despicable” conduct “justifies an award of punitive damages”.
Combs’ legal team later responded to the suit, saying the woman’s “babysitting services were always intended to be temporary” and that the “transition out of her role was planned and agreed to by her long before she even mentioned that she was pregnant”.
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Author: Al Denté
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