Amazon confirmed on Tuesday the removal of a memoir from its site that purports to tell the story of an abusive relationship between the late actor and model Kim Porter and her longtime partner, the hip-hop mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Porter and Combs’s children denounced the book – titled Kim’s Lost Words: A journey for justice, from the other side … – as a complete fabrication after it became a bestseller on Amazon in September.
Christian, 26, and Jessie and D’Lila, 17-year-old twins, as well as Quincy Brown, Porter’s son with Al B Sure!, whom Combs helped raise, posted a statement on Instagram saying: “We have seen so many hurtful and false rumors circulating about our parents, Kim Porter and Sean Combs’ relationship. As well as about our mom’s tragic passing.”
They said that claims their mother wrote the book are “simply untrue”.
“We were made aware of a dispute regarding this title and have notified the publisher,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “The book is not currently available for sale in our store.”
The independent publisher is Todd Christopher Guzze, who goes by the name Chris Todd and defines his occupation as an “investigative producer, author and journalist”.
Todd told the Associated Press in a phone interview in September that sources “very close to Kim and Sean Combs” provided him with a “flash drive, documents and tapes” from Porter that he eventually pieced together to create the memoir. Todd used the pseudonym Jamal T Millwood when publishing the title.
Todd also told Rolling Stone: “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.”
Combs was arrested last month and is facing multiple charges of sexual misconduct. On Tuesday, an attorney in Texas announced that he was representing a further 120 accusers.
Porter died in 2018 as a result of lobar pneumonia.
