A former intern for rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs’ record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, wants some of the mogul’s Benjamins.
Rashida Salaam, 26, of Brooklyn, filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court yesterday, accusing the company of violating minimum-wage laws by not paying interns for work performed.
Among the tasks that Bad Boy honchos assign to interns were getting lunch and coffee for paid staffers, answering phones and decorating the firm’s Broadway offices during the holidays, the suit says.
One source said company CEO Combs, who founded Bad Boy in 1993, even had the gall to require interns — although Salaam wasn’t one of them — to wrap holiday and birthday presents for his kids.
Salaam worked as an unpaid intern from January to June 2012, typically three or four days each week until 6 p.m. or 7 p.m., the suit says. Bad Boy did not return messages seeking comment on the suit.