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Diddy Sues Sean John For $25 Million For Using His Image Without His Permission

<p>If you didn’t know Diddy is no longer tied to the clothing company Sean John&comma; now you know after he filed a &dollar;25 million lawsuit against the clothing company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to documents obtained by <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;allhiphop&period;com&sol;news&sol;allhiphop-exclusive-diddy-sues-sean-john-for-25-million-for-stealing-his-image&sol;">All Hip Hop<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; Diddy filed a &dollar;25 million lawsuit against his former clothing company earlier this week&period; The company is now owned by GBG USA&period; Recently the clothing brand collaborated with Missguided for a clothing line&period; According to the complaint filed on February 4th&comma; it claims the company illegally used Diddy’s image&comma; likeness&comma; and persona without his permission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Diddy sold the Sean John clothing company to GBG USA back in 2016&period; In the lawsuit&comma; Diddy reportedly says that the company fabricated quotes to make customers think that he was still associated with the company when they launched their collaboration with Missguided&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Jonathan D&period; Davis&comma; Diddy’s lawyer&comma; said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Diddy&rsqb; does not challenge &lbrack;Sean John&sol;GBG’s&rsqb; right to use the Sean John trademark&comma; but rather &lbrack;Sean John&sol;GBG’s&rsqb; decision to leverage a fabricated quote they created and then falsely attributed to Mr&period; Combs&comma; and to use Mr&period; Combs’s name and other monikers to create the false and misleading impression that Mr&period; Combs is the decision-maker behind the designs and creation of the GBG Collection&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He continued to state&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&lbrack;Sean John&comma; GBG and Missguided&rsqb; are using the Unapproved Material&comma; <span data-preserver-spaces&equals;"true">which contains false or misleading representations of fact&comma; to promote and sell the items in the GBG Collection because they understand that associating it with Mr&period; Combs will significantly increase sales and profits<&sol;span>&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Aside from Sean John&comma; 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