Hip-hop and fashion mogul P. Diddy is being sued for accepting a $300,000 advance from a publishing house for an autobiography he never wrote.

Random House Inc. filed legal papers at the Supreme Court, in New York, on Monday against Puffy, and his company Bad Boy, claiming the music mogul "simply kept money he never rightly earned."

The publishers are now seeking to be awarded the total sum of the advance, which they originally paid in 1998, plus interest and legal fees from Sean Combs.

In a statement released yesterday the company said: "Random House has seldom resorted to a legal course of action with its prospective authors who don't write the books we have contracted for, but Mr. Sean Combs has left us no choice.

"We now have waited for over five years and have received neither the manuscript nor the return of the money we advanced Mr. Combs, the latter of which we have been seeking since 2001. We hope the court will help Mr. Combs do what is right," Perry said. 

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