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The Alleged Kim Porter Book Becomes Amazon Bestseller Despite Being Pulled Off Shelves: Here’s Why 

BY Dora Abena Dzaka October 3, 2024 10:02 PM EDT
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Kim’s Lost Words: A Journey for Justice from the Other Side, a 60-page book, was published on September 6 by Chris Todd.

A Los Angeles producer stated that the book contained facts Kim Porter saved on a flash drive and sent to friends before her tragic death over six years ago.

Along with Porter, Todd is identified as a co-writer of the unapproved memoir, which was published under the pen name “Jamal T. Millwood.”

A few days after its publication, the book shot to the top of Amazon’s Western U.S. Biographies category.

However, due to claims that it was fake, Kim Porter’s reported memoir about her relationship with Diddy has been pulled off Amazon.

After Diddy was arrested for sex trafficking and racketeering, Amazon reportedly declared on October 1 that it had taken the best-selling book off its stores as reported by The New York Post.

The report claims the company said, “We have informed the publisher about the dispute pertaining to this title. We don’t currently have the book for sale in our shop.” 

The book made startling allegations about Diddy’s violent marriage to Porter, including reports of his extramarital romances with well-known people.

Todd originally claimed that the story originated from Porter’s flash drive, but in a statement, Porter’s ex-partner Al B. Sure and her kids questioned the book’s veracity.

Check out the entire statement below:

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, that we feel the need to speak out.

Claims that our mom wrote a book are simply untrue.She did not, and anyone claiming to have a manuscript is misrepresenting themselves. 

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.

Our lives were shattered when we lost our mother. She was our world, and nothing has been the same since she passed. 

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. Grief is a lifelong process, and we ask that everyone respect our request for peace as we continue to cope with her loss every day.

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