Singer Al B. Sure! has weighed in on the legal battle surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs, calling for official action against the team that created the new, “fake” memoir attributed to his ex-wife – and Combs’ longtime friend – Kim Porter. Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey to Justice from the Other Side… was released on Amazon on September 6, a week before Combs was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and organized crime, and reportedly contains information Porter saved on a USB stick and shared with friends before she died suddenly of lobar pneumonia in 2018 at age 47.
“For over a decade and a half, I have been posting and tagging random law enforcement agencies in hopes of protecting my loved ones and preventing deaths and tragedies that could have all been avoided,” Sure, 56, born Albert Joseph Brown, wrote in an Instagram post on Monday (Sept. 23) that included hashtags for a number of law enforcement agencies. The singer-songwriter added that he had been “ignored” and ridiculed.”
Sure claimed that the attempt to silence him was aimed at preventing the singer from sharing “facts and insights” that Porter had shared with him in “frequent and confidential conversations.” Sure and Porter were married from 1989 to 1990 and had a son, Quincy Brown, 33, whom Combs later adopted when the child was 3 years old.
Sure’s posts also allegedly included stolen notes intended for Porter’s memoir and claimed that his late ex’s devices had gone missing, further evidence of an alleged cover-up of the facts surrounding her death, which he described as a “tragic murder.”
“Ms Porter’s missing devices, which are said to already be in evidence, undoubtedly contain the crucial evidence that has been kept under wraps until now,” he claimed. “I am satisfied that the evidence closely matches the details set out in the recently released public indictment.”
Sure claimed that “Kimberly was supposedly taken from us because she was out to accomplish what Mrs. Cassie Ventura did by lighting the Bon Fire (sic) that brings us here today,” linking Porter’s death to a settlement last year between Combs and his former girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura. The two agreed to an undisclosed settlement a day after Ventura sued Combs for alleged years of physical and emotional abuse and rape.
Sure’s series of posts also included excerpts from the 59-page book published by Los Angeles producer Chris Todd under the pseudonym Jamal T. Millwood.
In a statement to Billboard On Tuesday (September 24), Combs’ attorney Erica Wolf wrote: “Kim Porter’s ‘memoir’ is fake. It is also offensive – a shameless attempt to profit from a tragedy. Chris Todd has no respect for Ms. Porter or her family, who deserve better. … It is an established fact that Ms. Porter died of natural causes. May she rest in peace.”
Porter was found dead in her Toluca Lake, California, home in 2018 after suffering from “flu-like” symptoms for several days. The medical examiner initially listed the cause of death as “deferred,” but then changed it to lobar pneumonia, a type of pneumonia characterized by infection and/or inflammation of one or more lobes of the patient’s lungs.
Ventura is one of at least eight people who have sued Combs for sexual abuse. The Bad Boy Records founder was arrested in New York on September 16. He is accused of conspiracy to commit organized crime, sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution. Combs has pleaded not guilty to those charges. The disgraced music mogul, who denies the allegations against him, has been denied bail twice. He will remain behind bars until his trial date.
Rolling Stone reported that author Todd (aka Millwood, born Todd Christopher Guzze) told the magazine he could not guarantee that the claims in the No. 1 bestseller were authentic. He said he obtained the USB drive allegedly containing the notes from two unnamed “music industry” sources. The magazine notes that the book contains “numerous typos, factual inaccuracies and incredulous claims involving prominent names,” adding that two of Porter’s friends, Kimora Lee Simmons and Lawanda Lane, told the magazine they “don’t know (the author) at all.”
“If someone were to test me and say, ‘Life or death, is this book real?’ I would have to say I don’t know. But for me it’s real enough,” Todd said. RS“Maybe not 100% of the book is true, but maybe 80% is.”
Sure ended his posts by noting that he had a good relationship with Porter toward the end of her life and that they had friendly conversations until a few days before her death. “We must continue to fight for justice and ensure that all individuals who conspired against her are held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he wrote.
Combs and Porter were together on and off for 13 years until 2017 and have three children together: son Christian Combs and twins Jessie and D’Lila Combs.
