Random House sues P.Diddy for book that never was

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2005

NEW YORK (AFP) — Publisher Random House is suing rapper and entertainment mogul Sean "P.Diddy" Combs to recover a 300,000-dollar advance it paid for an autobiography that was never written.

The lawsuit was filed earlier this week at the state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

"Random House has seldom resorted to a legal course of action with its prospective authors who don't write the books we have contracted for, but Mr. Sean Combs has left us no choice," Random House publicist Tom Perry said in a statement.

Perry said Combs had signed an agreement with the publisher's Ballantine imprint in 1998 to write his autobiography, which he agreed to complete and deliver in 1999.

"We now have waited for over five years and have received neither the manuscript nor...