Amazon confirmed on Tuesday the removing of a memoir from its website that purports to inform the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and mannequin Kim Porter and her longtime accomplice, the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Porter and Combs’s youngsters denounced the ebook – titled Kim’s Misplaced Phrases: A journey for justice, from the opposite facet … – as a whole fabrication after it grew to become a bestseller on Amazon in September.
Christian, 26, and Jessie and D’Lila, 17-year-old twins, in addition to Quincy Brown, Porter’s son with Al B Certain!, whom Combs helped increase, posted an announcement on Instagram saying: “We have now seen so many hurtful and false rumors circulating about our mother and father, Kim Porter and Sean Combs’ relationship. In addition to about our mother’s tragic passing.”
They mentioned that claims their mom wrote the ebook are “merely unfaithful”.
“We had been made conscious of a dispute relating to this title and have notified the writer,” an Amazon spokesperson mentioned in an announcement. “The ebook just isn’t at present obtainable on the market in our retailer.”
The impartial writer is Todd Christopher Guzze, who goes by the title Chris Todd and defines his occupation as an “investigative producer, creator and journalist”.
Todd instructed the Related Press in a telephone interview in September that sources “very near Kim and Sean Combs” supplied him with a “flash drive, paperwork and tapes” from Porter that he ultimately pieced collectively to create the memoir. Todd used the pseudonym Jamal T Millwood when publishing the title.
Todd additionally instructed Rolling Stone: “If any person put my toes to the fireplace they usually mentioned, ‘Life or dying, is that ebook actual?’ I’ve to say I don’t know. Nevertheless it’s actual sufficient to me.”
Combs was arrested final month and is going through a number of costs of sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, an legal professional in Texas introduced that he was representing an extra 120 accusers.
Porter died in 2018 on account of lobar pneumonia.