P. Diddy and publisher settle

Sean “P. Diddy” Combs and Random House, Inc., have settled a lawsuit in which the publisher alleged that the hip-hop mogul never paid back a $300,000 advance for a memoir he never completed.

“The matter has been amicably resolved,” according to a statement issued Tuesday by Random House. Citing a confidentiality agreement, Random House spokesman Stuart Applebaum would not say whether Combs had returned the money, but did say that the publisher would not be releasing a book by him.

A spokesman for Combs did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

In papers filed in February at the state Supreme Court in Manhattan, the publisher alleged that Combs and his corporation, Bad Boy, had “simply kept the money they never rightfully earned.”