Kim Porter’s Kids Say New Memoir Taking Over Amazon Is ‘Simply Untrue’

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All four of Kim Porter’s children are claiming that the best-selling memoir purporting to be written by their late mother is fake. Porter’s three children with Diddy — Christian “King” Combs and twins Jessie and D’Lila Combs — put out a joint statement with Porter’s other son, Quincy Brown, on social media on September 25. “Claims that our mom wrote a book are simply untrue,” Porter’s children wrote. “She did not, and anyone claiming to have a manuscript is misrepresenting themselves.” The book, which was published on September 6, is called Kim’s Lost Words and is currently No. 2 on Amazon. Chris Todd, the man who published the book, could not confirm its legitimacy to Rolling Stone. This is all, of course, happening in the midst of new allegations of rape against Diddy and his arrest for sex-trafficking and racketeering.

Porter died of pneumonia in 2018 at 47 years old. The news of a secret 60-page memoir by Porter was spread by the Daily Mail in a September 19 article, which reported on the existence of a book that talked about Diddy “assaulting his late girlfriend, taping himself having sex with a male teenage pop star, and sex parties with an Oscar winner and his wife.” Todd claimed to RS that he received the book on a flash drive from two “music industry” sources and that he “believes it to be true.” “Additionally, please understand that any so-called ‘friend’ speaking on behalf of our mom or her family is not a friend, nor do they have her best interests at heart,” Porter’s children wrote.

Elsewhere, the statement appeared to address claims made by Brown’s father, R&B singer Al B. Sure!, who on September 23 called for a reinvestigation into Porter’s death on Instagram. “Our lives were shattered when we lost our mother,” the statement read in response. “While it has been incredibly difficult to reconcile how she could be taken from us too soon, the cause of her death has long been established. There was no foul play.”