A dispute between R&B singer Al B. Positive! and writer Simon & Schuster has stalled the discharge of his upcoming memoir, Do You Imagine Me Now?, a e-book that promised to element his complicated ties to Sean “Diddy” Combs. Web page Six revealed the information on Thursday (August 7).
Introduced in Could, the memoir was billed as an unflinching account of Positive!’s life, together with his near-fatal coma in 2022, doubts concerning the 2018 dying of his ex-wife Kim Porter, and a protracted, intertwined historical past with Combs. In interviews, the New Jack Swing star advised Combs could have performed a job in his medical disaster — an allegation Combs has by no means addressed.
The e-book has now disappeared from Simon & Schuster’s web site. Amazon eliminated its audio version fully, whereas the print model reveals an unbelievable launch date of December 31, 2050.
Positive!’s legal professional, Robert J. Hantman, stated “artistic variations” about how a lot consideration the e-book ought to dedicate to Combs brought on the delay. “Simon & Schuster wished him to incorporate extra about P. Diddy,” Hantman advised the press. “He didn’t wish to go there.”
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Positive! and Combs first met in 1990 at Uptown Data, when Positive! was a significant artist and Combs was an intern. Positive! was married to Porter, who later had three youngsters with Combs, together with Quincy Brown, whom Combs adopted.
Lately, Positive! has change into a pointy critic of Combs, who’s at the moment dealing with a number of authorized challenges, together with sexual assault allegations. The writer’s unique announcement promised a memoir that might discover “life-threatening lows and extraordinary highs” alongside private revelations about Combs and Porter.
Hantman advised that exterior affect could have prompted the e-book’s elimination. “If somebody interfered as a result of they feared the reality, we’ll examine,” he stated, including that they could rent non-public investigator Bo Dietl. He additionally rejected claims that Positive! is mentally unstable, calling them defamatory.
In July, Combs was convicted of transportation to have interaction in prostitution however acquitted of intercourse trafficking and racketeering costs. His sentencing is scheduled for October 3. All through the case, Quincy Brown has remained publicly supportive of Combs, showing in court docket with him.
For now, Do You Imagine Me Now? stays in limbo, its future unsure as tensions between Positive! and the writer proceed.
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