Rap artist Sean 'P Diddy' Combs is being sued by publisher Random House to recover an advance payment for his autobiography, which they claim was never delivered.
Tom Perry, spokesperson for Random House, said: "Random House has seldom resorted to a legal course of action with its prospective authors who don't write the books we have contracted for, but Mr Sean Combs has left us no choice."
Perry said that Combs had signed an agreement to write his autobiography in 1998 and agreed to complete it and deliver it to the publishers in 1999. A lawsuit was filed against Combs and Bad Boy Books Inc on Monday in Manhattan Supreme Court.
"We now have waited for over five years and have received neither the manuscript nor the return of the money we advanced Mr Combs, the latter of which we have been seeking since 2001. We hope the court will help Mr Combs do what is right," Perry said.
