Case #0106255/2011 · N.Y. Sup. Ct., New York County
Kevin Faraday v. Sean "Diddy" Combs, MTV, Live Nation, and approximately a dozen other individuals and companies
Filed N/A
Status
Open
Next court date
None on file
Last filing
Oct 17, 2013No. 2 · IAS Part 17 — Other settlement, pre-note
Judge
Justice Shlomo S. Hagler
Parties
Plaintiff
Kevin Faraday
Factual Allegations
Disclaimer: allegations as pled by the plaintiff, summarized with the help of AI.
Faraday alleges he was injured at a taping of MTV's "Making the Band" (a reality show produced by/starring Combs) at the Hammerstein Ballroom in 2008 -- someone rushed the stage, grabbed a microphone, and struck him in the abdomen with it. He sued Combs, MTV, Live Nation (the venue operator), and roughly a dozen other individuals/companies (crowd security among them, per the illegible default-judgment order). Live Nation's defense argued that if Faraday was struck, responsibility lay with Combs and MTV for failing to prevent the incident, not with the venue. Settled 10/17/2013. Not sexual-assault-related -- a crowd-control/premises-negligence claim, distinct in mechanism from the Combs-bodyguard-assault pattern (Grieson, Jackson/Guest, Owusu, Waldon) but similar in kind (a physical-injury tort at a Combs-affiliated event). Source: TMZ, "Live Nation: Diddy & MTV Are To Blame ... Not Us" (Jan. 3, 2012).
Court Dates
Date
Type
Description
Jan 10, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Jan 26, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Feb 23, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Mar 1, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Mar 23, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Apr 13, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); adjourned
Jun 4, 2012
Other
Motion for default judgment (Mot. Seq. 1); fully submitted
Oct 17, 2013
Other
Supreme Initial (first time on); other settlement (pre-note)
Docket
Date
No.
Description
Dec 19, 2011
1
RJI filed.
No document
Jan 10, 2012
1-a
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1 (Default Judgment), adjourned (reply). Before Justice Emily Goodman.
No document
Jan 26, 2012
1-b
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1, adjourned (stip). Before Justice Emily Goodman.
No document
Feb 23, 2012
1-c
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1, adjourned (SOS). Before Justice Emily Goodman.
No document
Mar 1, 2012
1-d
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1, adjourned (SOS). Before Justice Emily Goodman.
No document
Jun 4, 2012
1-decision
Decision on Motion Seq. 1 (Default Judgment) — DENIED with regard to the Live Nation defendants; GRANTED IN PART with respect to striking the force/protective/security defendant's (name illegible in source scan) answer. Settle order, notice to all interested parties. Before Justice Shlomo S. Hagler.
No document
Mar 23, 2012
1-e
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1, adjourned (SOS). Before Justice Shlomo S. Hagler.
No document
Apr 13, 2012
1-f
Submissions Part — Motion Seq. 1, adjourned (10:00). Before Justice Shlomo S. Hagler.
No document
Jun 4, 2012
1-g
IAS Motion 17 — Motion Seq. 1, fully submitted.
No document
Oct 17, 2013
2
IAS Part 17 — Other settlement, pre-note. SETTLED. Before Justice Shlomo S. Hagler.
