Lawanda Lane, who is the late model's best friend, debunks Courtney Burgess' claims that he had the real memoir written by the mother of Diddy's twin daughters.
- Nov 5, 2024
AceShowbiz - Kim Porter's BFF has spoken up on the confusion about an alleged Kim memoir. After Courtney Burgess, a new witness in Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' sex crime case, was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury to turn over all records depicting the incarcerated rapper, Kim's best friend Lawanda Lane debunks the existence of the alleged memoir.
Courtney, who is the caregiver of Kim and Diddy's twin daughters, tells TMZ that she was best friends with the late model for 30 years prior to her death in 2018. She claims she and Kim lived under the same roof during 20 years of their friendship and she never saw a manuscript written by the late model.
Lawanda, who says she was with Kim every day during the latter's life, says Kim never wrote anything down and that her friend never intended to write a book. She also says the family doesn't know who Courtney is, even though the guy claims he's one of Kim's former associates.
Lawanda insists that she was in charge of going through Kim's belongings and distributing them to family and friends after Kim died. She says that if there was a manuscript, she would have been the one who found it.
However, Courtney's lawyer Ariel Mitchell claims that he obtained the manuscript on a flash drive, which has since been turned over to federal investigators in the Diddy case. Courtney showed up to testify for the grand jury at the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan on October 31 after he was subpoenaed.
The subpoena asked Courtney to turn over all records, including thumb drives, hard drives, electronic storage devices, or devices containing videos and/or other files depicting Diddy. Courtney and his lawyer teased plans to publish Kim's unedited diary via Amazon at the time.
Appearing on NewsNation's "Banfield" after he testified, Courtney said Kim gave him 11 flash drives prior to her 2018 death, including alleged tapes of Diddy's "freak off" parties. The videos allegedly featured eight celebrities, six men and two women, with "two to three" of the individuals were allegedly minors.