Did Diddy use the rich and famous to hide in plain sight? Star enjoyed A-list endorsements from Obama to Oprah Winfrey and British royals

As 1 of the world's apical musicians, Diddy has rubbed shoulders with immoderate of the most influential figures of the 21st century, from British royalty and erstwhile US presidents to  Hollywood A-listers similar Oprah Winfrey. 

The 54-year-old instrumentalist - existent sanction Sean Combs - partied with Princes William and Harry during a post-concert shindig hosted by the royals, dated Jennifer Lopez, and had been a mentor to popular prima Justin Bieber.

And helium counts erstwhile Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump arsenic immoderate of his different personage fans, with concern titan Trump erstwhile hailing him a 'good friend' and 'good guy' and Obama reportedly 'hanging out' with him connected juncture - portion Vice President Kamala Harris has besides publically praised him. 

But present the hip-hop mogul's prized spot successful the high-flying planetary elite looks to person imploded arsenic helium faces aggregate charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering arsenic good arsenic proscription to prosecute successful prostitution.

Combes is present down bars aft and has reportedly been placed connected 'suicide watch' aft the billionaire's $50m bail bid was thrown retired by a New York national judge. 

The rapper has been accused of hosting sordid enactment parties, referred to arsenic 'freak offs,' during which it has been alleged his victims would beryllium drugged, forced to person enactment for days connected end, and near with specified terrible injuries they needed weeks to recover. 

Diddy has vociferously denied each allegations against him and has entered a plea of not blameworthy to each charges. 

And though determination is nary proposition of wrongdoing by his friends, the fallout of these allegations against him could spot immoderate of his interior ellipse of personage pals being hauled into tribunal to attest against him, experts person claimed. 

It comes arsenic experts contiguous claimed stars and royals who fawned implicit P Diddy astatine the tallness of his fame would beryllium embarrassed and ashamed by his autumn from grace.

Experts contiguous said that Sean Combs 'used' these stars to fell successful plain sight.

One mover and shaker connected the personage country successful London and LA astatine the clip told MailOnline: 'I cognize determination are radical who partied with him who are present utterly ashamed.

'They were used.'

Combs allegedly ran a transgression endeavor from astatine slightest 2008 and is accused of utilizing drugs and unit to to unit women to 'fulfil his intersexual desires', according to prosecutors.

And helium is accused of sexually abusing and adjacent raping men astatine parties wherever drinks were spiked.

Brand and civilization adept Nick Ede said Diddy 'manipulated' radical including the British royals.

He said: 'P Diddy was a clever manipulator who utilized his presumption and fame and wealth to summation entree to the astir important radical connected the planet.

'Aligning himself with Royalty and Government enables him to go astir untouchable hiding successful plain show – thing that we person travel to recognise arsenic a akin trait arsenic some Epstein and Weinstein.'

Combs has been a cardinal fig successful Hollywood for decades and his interior ellipse has included the likes of Jay-Z and Beyonce, Usher, Rick Ross and Justin Bieber. 

He besides has a estimation for 'throwing the 'best parties', tribunal documents person claimed. 

His extravagant 50th day bash, held astatine a Beverly Hills mansion successful 2019, saw Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, Leonardo DiCaprio, Pharrell, and Snoop Dogg - who appeared arsenic a taste ambassador astatine this year's Olympics - successful attendance. 

And successful 2007 helium was pictured with Prince William and Prince Harry astatine a post-concert solemnisation the royals hosted to convey each those who portion successful the 'Concert for Diana' astatine Wembley Stadium. 

The present estranged royal brothers posed for photos alongside Combs and Kanye West, with the Duke of Sussex throwing an limb crossed the jailed mogul's enarthrosis portion the Prince of Wales appeared to clasp him.

Earlier this year, Prince Harry's sanction appeared successful US tribunal documents related to a $30million suit claiming that 'Diddy' is simply a intersexual abuser of men and women. 

Record shaper Rodney 'Lil Rod' Jones' filed the bombshell lawsuit against Diddy and claims that his 'affiliation' to the Duke of Sussex and different stars gave him and his associates 'legitimacy'.

The tribunal documents filed successful the US backmost successful February did not suggest immoderate wrongdoing connected Prince Harry's part. He is not a suspect and is named erstwhile successful the 73-page document. 

Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales is not named successful the tribunal documents. It is not known however galore times Harry has met the rapper since then, if astatine all.

While Harry is not facing a ineligible claim, it is not the archetypal clip the royals person been embroiled successful superior tribunal allegations successful the US, with Prince Andrew forced to settee a suit brought by Virginia Giuffre, a enactment enslaved of Jeffrey Epstein.

As good arsenic British monarchs and popular royals, Combs has besides curried enactment from erstwhile US presidents and different high-flying governmental figures. 

During his clip hosting The Celebrity Apprentice, President Donald Trump spoke of Diddy, telling then-contestant Aubrey O'Day: 'I emotion Diddy. You cognize he's a bully person of mine, he's a bully guy.' 

Aubrey earlier had said she had worked with Combs for 'six years' which she said trained her to 'be perfect'. Asked if Diddy was a 'good guy' by Trump, Aubrey said: 'I don't privation to reply that question.'

'Oh good I deliberation he's a bully guy, I'm gonna instrumentality up for him,' the erstwhile president responded.  

Diddy is besides a large fig successful Democratic Party politics. He's a well-established person of President Barack Obama. The 2 person been pictured 'hanging out' connected a fig of occasions implicit the years, including successful his post-presidency - and Obama was fond of joking astir Combs' galore sanction changes.

'When Puff Daddy changed his sanction to P. Diddy, helium wanted to alteration it to 'Pimp Daddy', Obama erstwhile joked successful an interview. 'But helium didn't deliberation we would approve.'

In 2008, conscionable days earlier the election, Combs made a past effort to curry the favour of Black voters for Obama's statesmanlike run astatine a Democratic lawsuit – dubbed the 'Last Chance For Change Rally' – successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 

While successful 2020, existent US VP Kamala Harris – present the Democratic frontrunner successful the 2024 statesmanlike contention – thanked Combs for hosting a governmental municipality hallway astir Covid-19.

'There's a batch astatine involvement for our communities close present and it's captious we bring to the forefront however coronavirus is perpetuating radical inequality and wellness disparities,' Harris wrote connected X.

In 2006, 'Diddy' sat down with Hollywood royalty Oprah Winfrey for a tell-all interrogation - astir 15 years earlier the bombshell interrogation to the Hollywood fable by Harry and his woman Meghan Markle. 

Others among Combs' ellipse of personage pals includes Canadian popular royalty Justin Bieber. 

Bieber's narration with the euphony mogul goes backmost to the latter's teens, erstwhile helium was discovered arsenic a budding YouTube creator by Scooter Braun and R&B prima Usher.

Footage of Combs with a past 15-year-old Bieber has resurfaced online aft the rapper was arrested connected sex-trafficking charges.

X/Twitter users person branded the footage 'creepy', successful which sees Diddy, who is 24 years older than Bieber, documents his '48 hours' staying with the young singer.

In the clip, Combs stands adjacent to the young popular sensation and tells the camera: 'He's having 48 hours with Diddy, wherever we hanging retired and what we're doing we can't truly disclose.

'But it's decidedly a 15-year-old's dream.'

The hep hop mogul, 54, adds: 'I person been fixed custody of him. He's signed to Usher and I had ineligible guardianship of Usher erstwhile helium did his archetypal album.'

Diddy continues: 'I don't person ineligible guardianship of him [Bieber] but for the adjacent 48 hours he's with maine and we're gonna spell afloat crazy.'

Bieber, present 30, is said to beryllium truthful profoundly 'disturbed' by the quality of Combs' apprehension connected that he's chopped himself disconnected from the world.

Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, an insider said that the caller dada has been wholly 'thrown' by the harrowing allegations and is grappling to marque consciousness of them - particularly fixed that helium collaborated with Combs little than a twelvemonth ago.

The root said of the fragile singer: 'Bieber is truthful disturbed by the Diddy quality and is unwilling to process it oregon sermon it truthful helium has unopen off.

'So galore radical who helped to marque him who helium is were precise adjacent to Diddy and it has wholly thrown him.

'Justin hasn't been responding connected this since the location raids. He's not going to.'

The insider added that Bieber besides profoundly regrets having collaborated with the disgraced mogul past year, and would ne'er person done truthful had helium known the allegations that person since travel to light.

They continued: 'He had a agelong interruption from Diddy erstwhile helium believes astir of this took spot and helium had distanced himself from him.

'He was featured connected Diddy's astir caller album, and had helium known immoderate of this, determination is nary mode helium would person done it.'

Also portion of the interior ellipse Usher, who has claimed helium was exposed to immoderate 'pretty wild' worldly portion surviving with Diddy aged 14.

In an unearthed interrogation from 2016, the Burn vocalist revealed details astir his clip surviving with Diddy successful the outpouring of 1994.

While appearing connected The Howard Stern Show, Usher, 45, alleged that it was grounds shaper L.A. Reid's thought to person him unrecorded with the R&B vocalist successful Scarsdale to 'see the lifestyle'.

When asked if Diddy's 'place was filled with chicks and orgying nonstop' by Stern, Usher replied: 'Not really... I got a accidental to spot immoderate things … I don't cognize if I could indulge and adjacent recognize what I was looking at.

'It was beauteous wild. It was crazy. There were precise funny things taking spot and I didn't needfully recognize it,' helium admitted.

As for whether helium would nonstop his children to 'Puffy Flavor Camp,' Usher responded with an emphatic: 'Hell no!'

Back successful 2004, Usher told Rolling Stone that Diddy introduced him to 'a wholly antithetic acceptable of s**t — sex, specifically.'

'Sex is truthful blistery successful the industry, man,' helium continued. 'There was ever girls around. You'd unfastened a doorway and spot idiosyncratic doing it, oregon respective radical successful a country having an orgy. You ne'er knew what was going to happen.'

Combs' erstwhile person Jennifer Lopez was besides captious of the star, erstwhile revealed however helium was the archetypal antheral to cheat connected her during their 'tumultuous' narration from 1999 until 2001.

She aboriginal said she ended things due to the fact that she didn't consciousness similar she could person the household beingness that she dreamed of with the musician.

Lopez claimed helium had cheated connected her, telling Vibe mag successful 2003: 'It was the archetypal clip I was with idiosyncratic who wasn't faithful.

'I was successful this narration with Puff wherever I was wholly crying, brainsick and going nuts, it truly took my full beingness successful a tailspin.

'I ne'er caught him but I conscionable knew. He'd accidental helium was going to a nine for a mates of hours and past ne'er travel backmost that night.'

The pair's romance archetypal began portion Lopez was preparing for the merchandise of her debut album, On The 6, which Combs helped produce.

During their relationship, Lopez debuted her astir celebrated outfit during the Grammy Awards ceremonial successful 2000. The greenish silk chiffon formal from Versace was ace low-cut, hardly covering her cleavage.

But the mates besides deed headlines aft Lopez and Combs were arrested connected December 27, 1999, pursuing a shooting extracurricular the Times Square Club successful Manhattan.

The 2 were charged with transgression possession of a weapon, though the charges were aboriginal dropped against her arsenic she was determined to beryllium uninvolved.

Lopez broke up with the rap mogul a period earlier his proceedings was slated to statesman successful 2001. He was yet acquitted connected each charges. 

Others included connected Diddy's high-profile database of pals are Kim and Khloé Kardashian. 

They were joined by half-sister Kylie Jenner arsenic Combs' hosted an extravagant 50th day enactment astatine his $40million Holmby Hills mansion successful 2019. 

Five years aboriginal the sprawling spot would beryllium raided by Homeland Security arsenic portion of a enactment trafficking probe, but connected that December nighttime it played big to an array of personage friends. 

Record shaper Stevie J precocious shared a video of the event, which was attended by stars including the Kardashians, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Naomi Campbell and the precocious Kobe Bryant.

Posting the clip connected societal media, helium wrote: 'This is what a existent Diddy Party looks like.' 

Following his apprehension this week, Combs has since been likened to notorious enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein aft sordid caller details emerged of the enactment rooms successful his Miami location wherever helium hosted his 'freak offs'.

One of the Department of Homeland Security cause who helped raid the rapper's Miami mansion claimed determination were rooms wrong the spot solely 'dedicated to sex' with cameras planted each around.

Speaking to the NYP , the unnamed national root said if you were attending and participating successful Diddy's enactment parties, oregon alleged 'freak offs', 'you were being recorded from each imaginable angle, including angles you wouldn't person known about'.

The singer's 'freak offs' allegedly saw drugged up women being forced to slumber with antheral prostitutes successful scenarios that Combs, 54, orchestrated, filmed, and masturbated to.

'In my opinion, he's arsenic atrocious arsenic Jeffrey Epstein,' the root added, referring to the precocious pedophile and disgraced financier.

Officers claimed they spotted respective similarities betwixt Combs and Epstein - who was thrown down bars for trafficking dozens of young girls successful New York and Florida.

Epstein, who was awaiting proceedings connected further charges died successful his compartment successful August 2019. 

On Monday, Combs was sensationally arrested astatine Park Hyatt Hotel successful New York City and was aboriginal charged with sex trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution - each of which helium pleaded not blameworthy to successful a Manhattan tribunal connected Tuesday.

According to the bombshell indictment, Combs allegedly forced women - immoderate of whom were inactive teenagers - into days-long drug-fueled orgies.

He allegedly arranged and directed the enactment parties, portion masturbating passim the show and supplied women drugs specified arsenic ecstacy, ketamine, and BHB to support them energized, national prosecutors said.   

The indictment added: 'After freak offs, Combs and the victims typically received IV fluids to retrieve from the carnal exertion and cause use'. 

Prosecutors said that the euphony mogul's employees covertly booked edifice rooms for the 'freak offs', portion stocking them with babe oil, lubricant, and other furniture sheets.

But the national root told the quality tract that pursuing their thorough raids, they unearthed grounds that revealed the women didn't consciousness similar they were escaped to go, adding video grounds showed women who were 'clearly retired of it' portion having enactment with the men.

Combs would often portion the 'freak offs' to usage arsenic leverage to soundlessness the women, and was known to choke, shove and propulsion radical to the ground, prosecutors added.

'The sensitive, embarrassing and incriminating recordings that helium made during Freak Offs arsenic collateral to guarantee the continued obedience and soundlessness of the victims,' the indictment said.