Sean Diddy Combs has been hit with a $19 million lawsuit for allegedly failing to pay a former Bad Boy consultant for music and video footage of Notorious B.I.G.

According to The Associated Press, James Sabatino claims he flew Notorious B.I.G. to Miami  in 1994 for a live show and to record music. 

Biggie would record seventeen minutes of freestyles and the session was captured in about 90 minutes of video footage.

Sabatino claims that him and Biggie verbally agreed that the footage  belonged to him because he paid for the rapper's studio time and travel expenses.

After Biggie was murdered in 1997, Diddy agreed to buy the music and video footage from Sabatino for $200,000.  According to the lawsuit., the Bad Boy mogul gave Sabatino a  $25,000 cheque and promised to pay the reminder in sixty days.

Diddy said that reason for the delay was because Sabatino was named by the Los Angeles police as a person of interest in Biggie’s death.  B.I.G. and Sabatino were scheduled to meet on the night of his murder,  but Sabatino never showed.

According to the lawsuit, Diddy worried about the public’s opinion if they found out his company had  paid a large sum of money to a person of interest in Biggie’s murder.

Sabatino was later jailed on unrelated charges.  He claims that everytime he attempted to get the money from Diddy, he was reportedly told it was coming soon.

Sabatino claims he was hesitant to talk about the dispute because Diddy was questioned
by the police about Biggie's murder. He  feared Diddy would implicate him in Biggie’s murder but the mogul apparently told authorities  he felt that Sabatino had nothing to do with the rapper’s slaying.

Sabatino is  still in prison and Diddy’s attorney did not comment on the suit when reached on Saturday (October 6).