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"Former Bad Boy Entertainment president Kirk Burrowes has filed a\n$25 million lawsuit against former business partner Sean &amp;quot;P. Diddy&amp;quot;\nCombs, claiming that the rapper/mogul threatened him and bilked him\nout of millions.\nBurrowes is accusing Combs of entering his office with a\nbaseball bat and coercing him to sign over his stake in Bad Boy,\nwhich he co-founded with Combs in 1992. Burrowes said that Combs\nlater apologized, but never rectified their financial differences.\nThe suit, filed in federal court in New York City Monday, charges\nCombs with racketeering and breach of contract.\nCombs called the allegations &amp;quot;pure fantasy&amp;quot; in a statement.\n&amp;quot;Kirk Burrowes hasn&amp;apos;t been employed for seven years and now he\nmakes up a fictional story for financial gain,&amp;quot; Combs said. &amp;quot;He\nshould be ashamed of himself.&amp;quot;\nBurrowes&amp;apos; allegations aren&amp;apos;t the first time Combs has been\naccused of office intimidation. In 1999 Interscope Records\nexecutive Steve Stoute accused Combs and two associates of beating\nhim with a champagne bottle, chair and telephone for refusing to\ncut Combs out of a Nas video. Combs admitted that he &amp;quot;lost his\ncool,&amp;quot; but maintained that he didn&amp;apos;t assault Stoute with any of the\ndescribed articles and that Stoute&amp;apos;s claims of a broken arm and jaw\nwere false. He was charged with second-degree harassment and\nsentenced to one day of anger management counseling."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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