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Diddy Files $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit Against Accuser | Crime Alert Recap Saturday 01.24.25 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Nicole partner Sean Diddy. Combs has launched a fifty million
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  Speaker 1: dollar defamation lawsuit against Courtney Burgess, attorney Ariel Mitchell, and
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  Speaker 1: Nextstar Media Group that's the parent company of News Nation.
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  Speaker 1: The lawsuit was filed on January twenty two in Southern
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  Speaker 1: District of New York, accusing the defendants of intentionally fabricating
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  Speaker 1: and spreading false claims about Combs for their own financial benefit.
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  Speaker 1: It also contends that News Nation aired these allegations without
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  Speaker 1: adequate investigation, which has harmed Combs economically and damaged his reputation,
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  Speaker 1: jeopardizing his right to a fair trial with an unbiased jury.
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  Speaker 1: The fifty five year old Combs is currently detained in
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering,
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  Speaker 1: and transportation for prostitution, all of which he denies. The
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit alleges that Burgess claim to have video of Comb's
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  Speaker 1: quote involved in sexual assault of celebrities and miners. It
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  Speaker 1: is claimed that both Burgess and Mitchell shared these allegations
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  Speaker 1: to various news outlets, including News Nation. Combe's legal team
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  Speaker 1: asserts that since the alleged videos do not exist. The
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  Speaker 1: statements made by Burgess and Mitchell were either outright lies
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  Speaker 1: or made with reckless disregard for the truth. Additionally, Burgess
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  Speaker 1: reportedly claimed that Kim Porter, Combe's late girlfriend and mother
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  Speaker 1: of his four children, had given him a copy of
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  Speaker 1: her memoir and videos allegedly showing Comb's sexually assaulting inebriated
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  Speaker 1: celebrities and miners in her words. Colmb's attorneys strongly maintained
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  Speaker 1: that Burgess has never met Comb's and has no connection
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  Speaker 1: to his family. Attorney Erica Wolfe previously described the memoir
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  Speaker 1: as quote fake and offensive, a shameless attempt to exploit tragedy.
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  Speaker 1: Comb's and portersh children also refuted claims made in the
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  Speaker 1: memoir before it was taken down from Amazon. The lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: also names Mitchell, who has previously filed multiple lawsuits against Combs,
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  Speaker 1: including one on the behalf of an adult entertainer alleging
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  Speaker 1: sex trafficking. The court documents highlight a segment aired by
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  Speaker 1: News Nation in late September where Mitchell allegedly made false
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  Speaker 1: statements that tapes of Combs in compromising situations had been
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  Speaker 1: leaked in Hollywood. Mitchell also suggested that individuals were being
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  Speaker 1: recorded without their knowledge in Comb's residence. In response to
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell's claims, the News Nation host reportedly remarked, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like there was probably a lot of hidden cameras as well,
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  Speaker 1: despite a lack of evidence to support her allegations. The
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  Speaker 1: filings also states that Burgess and Mitchell reiterated false claims
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  Speaker 1: about Burchess possessing those videos of Comb's sexually assaulting celebrities,
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  Speaker 1: including miners. The same day Combs appeared before a grand
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  Speaker 1: jury regarding his sex crimes case. Burgess was a witness
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  Speaker 1: in that hearing. The lawsuit asserts that the defendants have
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  Speaker 1: profited from their public accusations against Combs, with Burgess allegedly
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  Speaker 1: earning from his fabricated memoir about Kim Porter, while Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: has gained media attention through her allegations. It is claimed
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  Speaker 1: that the airing of these allegations by News Nation has
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  Speaker 1: boosted the network's viewer ratings. Combs is seeking a defamation
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  Speaker 1: damage to be determined at trial, but no less than
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars including punitive damages, and is requesting a
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  Speaker 1: jury trial.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jennifer Gould in a shocking display of callousness, David Mish,
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  Speaker 2: recently convicted of the brutal murders of two young women
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  Speaker 2: in Alameda County, California, interrupted his own sentencing hearing by
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  Speaker 2: singing ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall and
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  Speaker 2: one of the victim's families. This outrageous act came as
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  Speaker 2: family members were delivering their victim impact statements begging for
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  Speaker 2: information about the disappearance of Mikayla Joy Garrett, a nine
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  Speaker 2: year old girl he's accused of abducting and killing in
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  Speaker 2: a separate case. Mikayla's mom, Sharon Murch, spoke to KTVU
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  Speaker 2: Fox two News.
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  Speaker 1: I would rather he tell us where Mikayla is than
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  Speaker 1: that they try to get the death penalty for him.
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  Speaker 3: Nothing that happens to him is going to bring Mikayla back.
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  Speaker 2: Despite the family's emotional please, Mish's response was to sing.
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  Speaker 2: He was then removed from the courtroom, but his whistling
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  Speaker 2: could still be heard from an adjacent holding cell, adding
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  Speaker 2: insult to the injury of those still mourning their lost
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  Speaker 2: loved ones. David Mish was convicted last month for the
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  Speaker 2: murder of Jennifer Dewey, and Michelle Xavier, whose naked and
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  Speaker 2: lifeless bodies were found in a remote area of Fremont
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  Speaker 2: in the late nineteen eighties. The two women, who went
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  Speaker 2: to a birthda Day party together on February second of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty six, were found shot and stabbed in a
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  Speaker 2: ditch by a motorcyclist later that night. Mish, known to
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  Speaker 2: be a drug addict and commercial burglar living in the
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  Speaker 2: area at the time, became a suspect. After the case
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  Speaker 2: went cold for fifteen years, it was reopened when advancements
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  Speaker 2: in DNA technology linked his genetic material found under Dewey's
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  Speaker 2: fingernails to the crime scene. Another crucial piece of evidence
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  Speaker 2: was a partial license plate number written on one of
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  Speaker 2: the victim's hands, which matched Mish's car. Mish was sentenced
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  Speaker 2: to two consecutive life sentences twenty five years to life,
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  Speaker 2: each to be served after he completes an eighteen year
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  Speaker 2: term for a previous murder conviction from nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 2: As for the case of MICHAELA. Joy Garrett, it was
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  Speaker 2: back on November nineteenth, nineteen eighty eight. The nine year
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  Speaker 2: old was at the Rainbow Market in Hayward with friends
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  Speaker 2: when a man now identified as Mish, moved her scooter
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  Speaker 2: closer to his car. As MICHAELA tried to retrieve it,
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  Speaker 2: she was abducted. The case remained unsolved until twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 2: when a partial palm print on the scooter was matched
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  Speaker 2: to Mish, leading to charges for her abduction and presumed murder.
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  Speaker 2: Her remains have never been found. Mish now awaits trial
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  Speaker 2: for a fourth murder, that of Margaret Vall, a thirty
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  Speaker 2: six year old woman he killed in nineteen eighty nine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Drew Nelson, a twenty five year old man in Illinois,
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  Speaker 4: receives a sixty year prison sentence for the brutal decapitation
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  Speaker 4: of his pregnant ex girlfriend Lise Dodd in twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 4: The sentencing brings to an end a prolonged legal process
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  Speaker 4: involving delays over his mental fitness to stand trial. On
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  Speaker 4: June ninth of twenty twenty two, Heidi Noel went to
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  Speaker 4: her daughter Lese Dodd's Alton apartment, and, after failing to
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  Speaker 4: reach her by phone, she discovered Dodd's headless body inside
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  Speaker 4: the home. Her head was later found in a dumpster outside.
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  Speaker 4: She was twenty two years old and nearly eight months pregnant.
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  Speaker 4: Authorities confirmed that the father of the unworn baby was
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  Speaker 4: not Dodd's ex boyfriend, DeAndre Holloway, who committed the murder.
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  Speaker 4: Halloway was arrested shortly after the killing during a theft investigation.
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  Speaker 4: He later pleaded guilty to first degree murder, intentional homicide
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  Speaker 4: of an unborn child, and concealment of a homicidal death.
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  Speaker 4: Prosecutors say Halloway must serve at least fifty two years
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  Speaker 4: before he becomes eligible for release. Advocates for the family
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  Speaker 4: held a news conference after the sentencing.
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  Speaker 5: If you have a mental instability or mental illness, seek
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  Speaker 5: treatment and be consistent with your treatment. Understand that your
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  Speaker 5: conditioner illness will not keep you from being held accountable
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  Speaker 5: for the crimes you commit.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Lisa's last act, her hand was resting on
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  Speaker 3: a book about pregnancy, so her last thought was probably
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  Speaker 3: about her unborn child.
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  Speaker 4: Dodd and Holloway had been in an on and off
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  Speaker 4: relationship for two years, her mother describing Holloway as a
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  Speaker 4: quote savage monster. Noel said during the Senate saying those
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  Speaker 4: and abuse of relationships need to seek help. Quote This
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  Speaker 4: didn't have to end this way. My daughter should be
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  Speaker 4: here raising her daughter. The senencying brings some solace to
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  Speaker 4: Dodd's family. Madison County State's Attorney Tom Haynes said, quote,
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  Speaker 4: this guilty conviction ends the continued uncertainty. Our hope is
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  Speaker 4: that this conviction and sentence provide the family and loved
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  Speaker 4: ones some assurance and will be a step toward healing.
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  Speaker 4: A GoFundMe created to support Dodd's family, raised nearly sixteen
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  Speaker 4: thousand dollars, part of which is being donated to domestic
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  Speaker 4: violence Resources and animal shelters. For the latest crime and
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  Speaker 4: justice news, follow Crime Alerts hourly update on your favorite
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  Speaker 4: podcast app. With his crime alert, I'm Drew Nelson.