Casefile True Crime - Casefile Presents: Suing Diddy

Episode Date: September 18, 2025

For the past three years, Jack Laurence has gone behind the bars of America’s toughest prisons, hearing the stories of robbery, arson, murder, and everything in between. He thought he’d heard it all… until he met one prisoner with a story unlike any other. A man who wasn’t just fighting for his freedom, but was on the verge of becoming one of the richest prisoners in the world, by suing Sean “P. Diddy” Combs for $100 million.But that was only the beginning. What Jack uncovered was a rabbit hole of alleged assault, corruption, cover-ups, and murder. A story so unbelievable it made headlines around the globe and left him questioning everything he thought he knew.If you think you’ve heard it all before when it comes to crime stories… you haven’t heard anything like this. Listen to Suing Diddy nowhttps://casefilepresents.com/suing-diddyhttps://open.spotify.com/show/4FrC2o9uyJFZ630ufF1MRnhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/suing-diddy/id1838310025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This call is from a correctional facility and is subject to monitoring it and recording. Three years ago, Jack Lawrence started a podcast called One Minute Remaining, documenting conversations with incarcerated people across the United States. From drugs to arson, assaults and murders, even wrongful convictions, he thought he'd heard at all. That was, until he met a man suing Sean P. Diddy Cone? for $100 million. This is in the matter of Derek Lee Cardello Smith versus Sean Combs, Sean Puff Daddy Combs, also known as Sean Pete Ditty.

There's a guy named Derek Lee Cardello Smith, a Michigan man who's incarcerated. He has now been awarded a $100 million judgment against Sean Ditty Combs for sexual assault. The claims being made by Derek Lee Cardello Smith were nothing short of mind-blowing. Tales of corruption, murder. They try to hire me to kill Detroit police officer's wife, her name was Rosecott. A sexual assault, and ultimately, what he says, was his own wrongful imprisonment. That's literally the woman who destroyed my life after her life was destroyed. It was a story like nothing Jack Lawrence had ever documented before. And whenever he started to doubt what he was hearing,

Derek would point to legal documents, paperwork, even news articles that seemed to back him up. Do you even believe this guy and what he's saying? Dude, I don't know what to believe anymore. Like, honestly, one minute he's telling me this thing that cannot be true and then I Google it and there it is in black and white, he's telling the truth. Holy shit, what is going on? This is not just another prison story.

It made headlines around the world and left Jack questioning everything. Hi, Jack. I feel like I'm part of some sort of twilight zone right now, I'll be honest. So, if you think you've heard it all before when it comes to crime stories, trust me, you haven't heard anything like this. You're on the cost of something extremely huge. Suing Diddy, the brand new podcast from CaseFile Presents, is out now wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you.