Janice Combs, mother of Sean ”Diddy” Combs, has appeared at every court date her son’s ongoing RICO case alongside the mogul’s children.
Janice Combs, better known as Momma Combs, is fighting to be removed from a federal lawsuit alleging she participated in a decades-old scheme tied to her son, Sean “Diddy” Combs, and his Bad Boy Entertainment empire. The 84-year-old mom of the Hip-Hop mogul is fighting back in Manhattan federal court, where Kirk Burrowes is suing over a piece of Bad Boy Entertainment he says was snatched from him back in the ’90s. Burrowes is coming for Diddy, his longtime lawyer Kenneth Meiselas, and now Smalls—claiming she played clean-up crew after he was allegedly forced to give up his 25% stake and 15% profit cut in 1996. In a motion filed in Manhattan federal court, the 84-year-old denied accusations from former Bad Boy executive Kirk Burrowes. Burrowes claims she helped conceal a 1996 deal that stripped him of a 25% ownership stake and 15% profit share in the label. He alleges Diddy, longtime attorney Kenneth Meiselas and Janice Combs acted together to push him out, and that she later admitted her involvement during a 2019 conversation at a Diana Ross party.
Combs’ filing rejects the claims outright. It states she has never held an ownership interest in Bad Boy or participated in its business matters. She says she has lived in Florida since 2012 and has not been involved in her son’s professional disputes.