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Al B. Sure! Wants Kim Porter’s Death Investigated After Diddy’s Arrest
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Al B. Sure! Wants Kim Porter’s Death Investigated After Diddy’s Arrest

Singer Al B. Sure! has waded into the legal quagmire surrounding Sean “Diddy” Combs by calling for official action against the team that created what he called a new “fake” memoir attributed to his ex-wife — and Combs’ longtime girlfriend — Kim Porter. Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey to Justice from the Other Side… was released on Amazon on September 6, a week before Combs was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and racketeering. It reportedly contained information that Porter had saved on a flash drive and given to friends before she died suddenly of pneumonia in 2018 at the age of 47.

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“For over 15 years I have been posting about and tagging random law enforcement agencies in the hopes of protecting loved ones, preventing deaths and tragedies that could all have been avoided,” Sure, 56, born Albert Joseph Brown, wrote in an Instagram post on Monday (Sept. 23) using hashtags for a series of law enforcement agencies. The singer-songwriter added that he had been “ignored” and “ridiculed.”

Sure alleged that an alleged attempt to silence him was intended to prevent the singer from sharing “facts and insights” that Porter told him during “frequent and intimate conversations.” Sure and Porter were married from 1989 to 1990 and had a son, Quincy Brown, 33, whom Combs later adopted when the child was 3 years old.

Sure’s messages also included what he claimed were stolen notes that he claimed were intended to be included in Porter’s memoir, as well as claims that his late ex’s devices had gone missing as further evidence of what he saw as an alleged cover-up over the facts surrounding her death, which he called a “tragic murder.”

“Ms Porter’s missing devices, which have reportedly already been used as evidence, undeniably contain the crucial evidence that has been concealed,” he claimed. “I am confident that the evidence closely matches the details set out in the recently released public charging document.”

Sure alleged that “Kimberly was allegedly taken from us because she was set on a course to accomplish what Mrs. Cassie Ventura did by lighting the Bon Fire (sic) that brings us here today,” seemingly linking Porter’s death to a settlement reached last year between Combs and her former girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura. The couple reached an undisclosed settlement a day after Ventura sued Combs for what she alleged was years of physical and emotional abuse and rape.

Sure’s series of messages also included excerpts from the 59-page book that Los Angeles producer Chris Todd published under the pseudonym Jamal T. Millwood.

In a statement to Billboard On Tuesday (Sept. 24), Combs’ attorney Erica Wolf wrote: “Kim Porter’s ‘memoirs’ are fake. They are also insulting – a shameless attempt to profit from the tragedy. Chris Todd has no respect for Ms. Porter or her family, who deserve better. … It is a fact that Ms. Porter died of natural causes. May she rest in peace.”

Porter was found dead in her Toluca Lake, California, home in 2018 after suffering from “flu-like” symptoms for days. The coroner initially listed her cause of death as “delayed,” but later changed it to lobar pneumonia, a type of pneumonia characterized by infection and/or inflammation of one or more lobes of the patient’s lung.

Ventura is one of at least eight people who have accused Combs of sexual assault. The Bad Boy Records founder was arrested in New York on Sept. 16 on charges that he committed racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution, charges to which Combs has pleaded not guilty. The disgraced music mogul, who has denied the allegations against him, has twice been denied bail and will remain behind bars pending his trial date.

Rolling Stone reported that author Todd (aka Millwood, born Todd Christopher Guzze), told the publication he can’t guarantee the claims made in the No. 1 bestselling book are authentic, saying he obtained the flash drive containing the notes from two anonymous “music industry sources.” The magazine notes that the book contains “numerous typos, factual inaccuracies and disbelieving claims involving household names,” adding that two of Porter’s friends, Kimora Lee Simmons and Lawanda Lane, told the magazine they “don’t know (the author) at all.”

“If someone were to put my feet up and say, ‘Life or death, is that book real?’ I’d have to say I don’t know. But for me, it’s real enough,” Todd said RS“Maybe not 100% of the book is true, but maybe 80% is.”

Sure concluded his messages by noting that he was on good terms with Porter toward the end of her life and that they had friendly conversations until a few days before her death. “We must continue to advocate for justice and ensure that anyone who conspired against her is held accountable and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” he wrote.

Combs and Porter had an on-again, off-again relationship for 13 years, until 2017. They had three children together: son Christian Combs and twins Jessie and D’Lila Combs.