Al B. Sure! has issued a cease-and-desist letter to Amazon and the publisher of a book purported to be the late Kim Porter‘s memoir
The ‘fake’ book, called Kim’s Lost Words, was released in wake of her ex-husband Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs‘ sex trafficking arrest and includes a variety of wild, unsubstantiated claims.
Now, Sure! — who was married to Porter back in 1989 — is making an effort to put a stop to the sale of the literary work.
It was self-published under the alias Jamal T. Millwood on Amazon this month by a man named Todd Christopher Guzze.
Guzze, who also uses the name Chris Todd, claims to have investigated other salacious celebrity stories including those of JonBenét Ramsey, the Zodiac Killer and Kurt Cobain, per Rolling Stone.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and CEO Andy Jassy were sent the cease-and-desist by Sure!’s lawyer, Robert J. Hantman, on Friday.
The letter notes that he has been ‘defamed by false and malicious statements published,’ and seeks to put a stop to ongoing book sales.
‘Should you fail to comply with these demands within ten days, we will have no alternative but to pursue all legal remedies available, including filing a lawsuit for defamation,’ the correspondence warns, per Page Six.
The publication described Todd as an ‘investigative producer, author and journalist.’
Elsewhere in Al’s legal letter, he states that the Amazon best-seller ‘falsely portrays Mr. Brown as engaging in fabricated sexual conduct, particularly with Sean Combs and the mother of his son, Quincy.’
‘By misrepresenting his personal life and fabricating serious, false accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior, these defamatory claims have caused significant damage to Mr. Brown’s reputation,’ the message continues.
Sure! told Page Six, ‘The part with me, I have nothing to do with any activity of that nature. It’s the most disgusting, heinous lie I have ever heard of in my life.’
Porter died in 2018 at age 47 due to lobar pneumonia. Now, her loved ones feel her legacy is being tainted by the contents of the mysterious book.
The cease-and-desist letter further demands that in addition to halting book sales, the author issue a public apology that ‘must be clear, unequivocal, and widely circulated.’
Hantman told Page Six, ‘Amazon should be held to a higher standard,’ adding, ‘As if a fake memoir is not enough, it is shocking that Jeff Bezos’ Amazon would distribute it without any investigation of its validity or accuracy.’
Todd told Rolling Stone that he has sources who ‘had [Porter’s] flash drive’ and that he ‘didn’t ask too many questions about how they got it [or] where did it come from.’
He also divulged, ‘If somebody put my feet to the fire and they said, ‘Life or death, is that book real?’ I have to say I don’t know. But it’s real enough to me.’
He continued, ‘Sometimes you have to just put it out there. Maybe not 100% of the book is true, but maybe 80% is.’
This past week Sure! took to social media to share excerpts of the ‘fake’ memoir in hopes to draw law enforcement to investigate the publisher.
Porter’s four children — Quincy, 33 (whom she shares with Al), Christian ‘King’ Combs, 26, and twins D’Lila Combs and Jessie Combs, 17 — have also spoken out against the book, insisting it is full of ‘hurtful and false rumors.’
‘Claims that our mom wrote a book are simply untrue. She did not, and anyone claiming to have a manuscript is misrepresenting themselves,’ they wrote in a joint social media post.
Porter and Sure! were married from 1989 to 1990, meanwhile she and Combs were in an off-on relationship from 1994 until 2007.
