How child-star Justin Bieber was 'thrown to the wolves' and allowed into Diddy's depraved orbit: Topless parties... a pact of secrecy... and an 'unsupervised' 48 hours

In February 2011, a 16-year-old Justin Bieber was nearing the tallness of his fame erstwhile helium sat down with 1 of his cardinal philharmonic relation models connected nationalist television.

Their closeness was evident. Bieber playfully copied his mentor's each determination connected the interrogation couch, aping his manus gestures and speech, and adjacent mimicking the mode helium crossed his legs.

It was truthful striking that amusement big Jimmy Kimmel said to his older interviewee: 'Do you spot what an content you're making connected the young man? I anticipation you're going to beryllium a bully relation exemplary to him… what's going connected with you guys?'

'I deliberation we've go friends successful a unusual way,' came the reply.

But of course, that seemingly guiltless enactment has present taken connected a sinister caller meaning, for the antheral who was sat with Bieber was Sean 'Diddy' Combs, past aged 41.

On September 16 this year, the rapper was arrested successful New York City and charged with a acceptable of jaw-dropping crimes ranging from alleged enactment trafficking to racketeering and proscription for the purposes of prostitution.

Now arsenic Combs, 54, awaits proceedings and prosecutors person spoken to implicit 50 witnesses and victims, who they accidental volition exposure the utter depravity of his 'criminal enterprise', questions person been raised implicit why those liable for Bieber allowed Diddy to go thing of a mentor to him arsenic a child.

Sources adjacent to Bieber, 30, exclusively told the Daily Mail that helium 'should ne'er person been allowed to enactment with Diddy oregon anyone other erstwhile helium was a teen.'

They assertion helium was 'thrown to the wolves' by his parent Pattie Mallette and mostly absent begetter Jeremy Bieber.

Usher, whose grounds statement Bieber was signed to, and who was himself mentored by Diddy arsenic a teen, is besides partially responsible, these sources claim.

There is nary grounds to suggest Bieber's parents oregon Usher knew astir Diddy's alleged transgression enactment astatine the time.

In that 2011 interview, Kimmel asked Bieber what they got up to erstwhile they hung retired arsenic friends, Combs interjected, saying, 'he knows amended than to beryllium talking astir the things helium does with large member Puff connected nationalist television. Everything ain't for everybody.'

Today, the resulting accusation vacuum surrounding their relationship, and Bieber's refusal to remark connected the increasing allegations against Combs, has sent his fans into a frenzy, disinterring aged video footage of the brace unneurotic and speculating wildly implicit immoderate imaginable meaning.

Of peculiar note:

A 2010 clip successful which Combs jokingly grills Bieber, past 16, implicit wherefore helium hasn't 'been calling maine and hanging retired the mode we utilized to bent out.'

And a bizarre 2021 clip, successful which Combs appears to pat Bieber down, arsenic if to cheque whether helium is wearing a wire, earlier Bieber tells him 'I emotion you' and they accidental goodbye.

Fans person besides started re-examining Bieber's aged opus lyrics successful an effort to glean immoderate clues astir his narration with Diddy.

Bieber's 2020 opus 'Lonely' – which helium has said is astir the 'tough chapters' helium experienced arsenic a kid prima – has been circulated online with peculiar absorption connected a verse that reads: 'And everybody saw maine sick/And it felt similar nary 1 gave a s**t/ They criticized the things I did arsenic an idiot kid.'

As precocious arsenic August past year, Bieber featured connected Diddy's medium ('The Love Album'), with Bieber taking to Instagram and penning to his 'brother': 'Wild afloat circle, emotion you.'

The brace struck up their improbable relationship astatine the 2009 VMAs, erstwhile Bieber was a 15-year-old baby-faced breakout star, discovered the twelvemonth anterior connected YouTube by talent-manager Scooter Braun, and Combs was a 40-year-old mogul already worthy millions of dollars.

Bieber had conscionable been signed by Usher successful 2008 who himself lived with Diddy erstwhile helium was a young artist.

Usher has since expressed reservations astir Diddy's mentorship, saying the rapper introduced him to sex, drugs and intoxicant erstwhile helium was acold excessively young and telling MTV successful 2010 that helium 'wouldn't walk connected immoderate of the proposal helium gave me.'

In 2016, Usher went a measurement further. When asked successful an interrogation with Howard Stern if helium would nonstop his ain kid to unrecorded with Diddy, helium replied 'Hell no!'

In November 2009, a 15-year-old Bieber spent a now-infamous 48-hour play with Diddy seemingly unsupervised astatine the rapper's home.

In a video taken during that clip and shared to YouTube by Bieber, Diddy, past 40, turns to the camera and says: 'He's having 48 hours with Diddy, wherever we hanging retired [sic] and what we're doing we can't truly disclose.

'But it's decidedly a 15-year-old's dream. We're gonna spell full, subordinate afloat crazy.'

In 2009, Combs ceased hosting his celebrated 'White Parties' for A-list friends and allegedly ramped up his seedier, notorious 'Freak-Offs' astatine which galore of the crimes listed successful the New York indictment are said to person taken place.

Prosecutors accidental implicit the people of 'decades' Combs enlisted legions of employees and prostitutes to signifier elaborate, sometimes days-long, twisted displays astatine these 'Freak-Off' orgies, astatine which women were fixed drugs and forced into intersexual acts with antheral enactment workers.

Combs allegedly utilized 'physical, emotional, and verbal abuse,' to unit women to comply, threatened them with firearms, oregon 'hit, kicked, threw objects at, and dragged victims, astatine times, by their hair'.

He allegedly filmed the encounters and sometimes watched portion masturbating.

During a March raid connected Combs's LA and Miami homes, investigators recovered implicit 1,000 bottles of lubricant and babe oil.

Some of these 'Freak-Offs' allegedly went connected truthful agelong that exhausted participants had to beryllium fixed restorative IV drips, portion others were near with superior injuries and teams were brought successful to cleanable distant the mess.

On Tuesday, Texas lawyer Tony Buzbee revealed helium is representing a further 120 alleged victims, 25 of whom were underage erstwhile they assertion Diddy sexually abused them, typically drugging them with tranquilizers. At slightest 1 was reportedly a nine-year-old boy.

While determination is nary grounds that Bieber was ever astatine 1 of Diddy's 'Freak-Offs' oregon 'White Parties', helium surely partied with the rapper during his youth.

In 2014, Khloe Kardashian recalled seeing Bieber astatine a caller lawsuit wherever 'half the radical determination were butt-naked'. In February the aforesaid year, helium appeared astatine the motorboat enactment for Combs's portion brand, DeLeon, and was pictured topless.

The pursuing twelvemonth the brace danced unneurotic astatine the 21st day enactment of Combs's lad – besides called Justin – and then, 2 months later, they some appeared connected signifier during a Miami euphony festival.

All the while, Bieber seemed to beryllium deteriorating.

In January 2014, helium had been stopped by constabulary aft racing a Lamborghini successful a 30mph zone. He accepted a plea woody for careless driving.

A period later, constabulary recovered marijuana successful his limo – nary charges were filed.

In July, helium was charged with vandalism and ordered to wage a neighbour $80,900 aft helium egged their house.

Meanwhile, astatine home, troubles abounded.

In 2015, Bieber told Billboard that his narration with his parent was 'pretty non-existent', adding: 'I was distant due to the fact that I was ashamed. I ne'er wanted my ma to beryllium disappointed successful maine and I knew she was. We spent immoderate clip not talking.'

Bieber's mother, Pattie, had Justin erstwhile she was 18, raising him mostly unsocial aft splitting from his father, Jeremy, a fewer months aft helium was born.

She suffered her ain issues with drugs and addiction successful the years earlier giving birth, revealing successful a 2008 interrogation that she had turned to drugs to 'numb the pain' of puerility intersexual abuse, and had erstwhile attempted suicide.

'I was beauteous overmuch precocious oregon drunk from the clip I woke up, to the clip I went to bed,' she said.

Jeremy was absent for overmuch of Bieber's childhood, erstwhile leaving for an full twelvemonth erstwhile Justin was four. The brace aboriginal worked to rebuild their relationship, however, with Bieber telling GQ successful 2016 that helium was present 'a batch person to my dada than I americium to my mom'.

The grade of Bieber's cause usage successful his teens lone became wide successful caller years, with the vocalist being much candid astir his addiction struggles, including admitting helium started smoking marijuana aged 12 earlier going connected to maltreatment pills and alcohol.

'My information would travel into my country astatine nighttime to cheque my pulse,' helium said successful a 2020 documentary. 'People don't cognize however superior it got. It was legit brainsick scary.'

In different interview, reflecting connected the interaction of kid pop-stardom, helium said helium wanted to support Billie Eilish – who was shooting to planetary fame astatine the clip – from the experiences helium had had.

Wiping distant tears, helium said: 'I don't privation her to spell done thing I went through. I don't privation that upon anybody.'

Representatives for Bieber, his parents, Usher and Combs did not respond to requests for comment.

But now, arsenic caller concerns implicit Bieber's wellness proliferate – with pictures emerging successful caller days of the star, who became a begetter successful August, looking peculiarly gaunt – fans are questioning if the quality of Combs's alleged crimes is to blame.