/ Source: The Associated Press
Sean “Diddy” Combs has settled a lawsuit brought by a man who claims the rapper-entertainment mogul punched him after a post-Oscar party outside a Hollywood hotel.
Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed in court papers posted Monday on the celebrity Web site TMZ.com.
After-hours calls to attorneys for both sides weren’t immediately returned.
The lawsuit by Gerard Rechnitzer claimed that Combs punched him, pushed his girlfriend and spat on another woman on Feb. 25, 2007, outside Teddy’s Nightclub at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Rechnitzer sought unspecified damages.
In a court declaration, Combs, 38, said Rechnitzer lunged toward him and that “any contact ... was caused by his forward motion against my open hand.”