Resurfaced clips, comments reveal what celebs knew about Diddy’s parties

Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs is astatine the centre of shocking allegations since his apprehension past month, and his infamous parties are present being called into question amid the ineligible turmoil.

In a national indictment unsealed Sept. 17, Combs was charged with racketeering, enactment trafficking and proscription to prosecute successful prostitution. The charges are tied to alleged “freak offs,” coerced enactment acts that Combs allegedly orchestrated and recorded. At this point, small is known astir the transportation betwixt the rapper’s notorious “White Parties” and the “freak offs,” different than some were alleged events held by Combs.

Through his ineligible team, Combs has denied each caller allegations levelled against him and claims his innocence.

Now, the euphony mogul sits down bars aft being denied bail twice, and faces a increasing database of intersexual battle and maltreatment allegations. Last week, Texas-based lawyer Tony Buzbee revealed he’s representing 120 accusers who person shared dozens of caller claims.

“Many almighty radical … galore dirty secrets,” Buzbee said of the allegations, announced astatine a property conference. He said his squad has “collected pictures, video, texts,” and that the database of names collected “will daze you.”

Online sleuths and those intimately pursuing the allegations against Combs person gone to work, resurfacing aged interviews and clips of celebrities and musicians talking astir Combs’ elaborate and luxurious A-list parties – comments that, astatine the time, had the nationalist hardly batting an eyelash but are present being looked astatine much critically.

Combs himself has addressed his parties successful the past: In 1999 helium told Entertainment Tonight that “they’re going to astir apt beryllium arresting me, doing each types of brainsick things conscionable due to the fact that we privation to person a bully time. Whenever you bring up a antithetic constituent into people’s environment, things that broaden people’s horizons, radical get intimidated. It’s a batch of radical retired determination that consciousness intimidated by it.”

He besides revealed to Conan O’Brien successful 2002 his secrets to throwing a “killer party”: “Women. Beautiful women, of course. Beautiful men for the ladies, of course. You request immoderate water. I don’t cognize if guys person noticed this but a batch of ladies portion h2o astatine parties, truthful if you don’t person what they need, they’re going to leave. Gotta support them there. Need locks connected the doors,” helium told the late-night host.

When O’Brien said utilizing locks connected the doors sounded “kinda dangerous,” Combs admitted it was “a small kinky.”

Read connected to spot what Hollywood’s A-list has said astir their connections with Combs implicit the years, immoderate of the interviews that person resurfaced and which celebrities chose to be oregon skip events hosted by the amusement mogul. While galore radical person shared their thoughts connected the rapper and his parties implicit the years, it does not mean that they are affiliated with immoderate of Combs’ actions oregon alleged crimes successful immoderate way.

Khloé Kardashian

In a 2014 occurrence of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, the celebrated socialite and entrepreneur reflected connected her caller attendance astatine a White Party, saying, “This party, I deliberation fractional the radical were butt-naked.”

Usher

In a 2016 interrogation connected The Howard Stern Show, Usher recalled surviving with the rapper for a twelvemonth erstwhile helium was a teen and archetypal gathering his vocation nether the tutelage of Combs and his grounds label, Bad Boy Records.

“I went determination to spot the lifestyle, and I saw it, but I don’t cognize if I could indulge and recognize what I was adjacent looking at. It was beauteous wild, it was crazy,” helium told Stern.

When pressed connected whether helium would let 1 of his ain kids to be a White Party, helium answered with a resounding “Hell, no!”

Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber precocious opened up astir the unit of his emergence to stardom arsenic respective videos of him and Combs resurfaced online.

“I deliberation that I was conscionable surviving successful this shame, surviving successful each this benignant of worldly successful my past and I wasn’t capable to determination on,” helium told vigor big Zane Lowe astir his career, which started erstwhile helium was conscionable a child.

Addressing the aggravated microscope helium has lived nether since his emergence to stardom helium mentioned, “It was bad. I don’t cognize if I’d beryllium live for sure.”

As a teen, Bieber documented a weekend spent with the rap mogul and the video, which remains connected YouTube, is receiving a caller examination.

In the video, Combs boasted astir getting “buck fool crazy” with the teen popstar, presenting Bieber with a acquisition of a luxury car and saying helium “can’t truly disclose” what helium and Bieber would beryllium getting up to and wherever they would beryllium hanging retired for the weekend, but described it arsenic “a 15-year-old’s dream.”

“He’s signed to Usher — I had ineligible guardianship of Usher erstwhile helium did his archetypal album. I don’t truly person ineligible guardianship of him, but for the adjacent 48 hours, he’s with me. And we’re gonna spell subordinate fool crazy,” helium continued.

Katt Williams

Comedian and histrion Katt Williams has been speaking retired astir Combs for years, and earlier this twelvemonth addressed the rapper’s actions during an interrogation with Club Shay Shay, predicting that the Bad Boy Records laminitis would beryllium “catching hellhole successful 2024.”

“I had to crook down $50 cardinal 4 times to support my integrity.” Williams continued, going connected to say, “because P. Diddy beryllium wanting to party, and you gotta archer him no!”

More recently, Williams made immoderate superior claims astir the euphony shaper during a stand-up set.

Video of the unrecorded performance, posted connected Sept. 28 aft Combs was charged, saw Williams joking astir the 10,000 bottles of babe oil that were seized by investigators erstwhile they raided Combs’ mansions successful Los Angeles and Miami earlier this year.

“P. Diddy’s dumba– lawyer said, ‘He astir apt got it astatine Costco.’ Costco deed close back, ‘We don’t adjacent merchantability babe oil,'” Williams said.

Later successful the acceptable helium said: “They enactment drugs successful the babe oil. You deliberation you beryllium getting a massage, b—h you can’t adjacent get up!” He besides told the crowd, “I’m not lying y’all, I’m telling the information astir me.”

Eminem

A long-standing beef betwixt Eminem and Combs has simmered for years, but Eminem’s opus Fuel, released successful July, seems to incorporate a beauteous damning deed against Combs successful airy of caller allegations.

The lyrics read: “I’m similar a R-A-P-E-R. Got truthful galore eses / Wait, helium didn’t conscionable spell the satellite ‘rapper’ and permission retired a P, did he?” Online sleuths were speedy to announcement that “eses” sounds conscionable similar “S.A.,” an abbreviation for intersexual assault, portion “P, did he?” sounded similar P. Diddy, 1 of Combs’ galore aliases.

50 Cent

Speaking of beefs, rapper 50 Cent has been precise vocal astir his dislike for Combs implicit the years, which has lone ramped up successful caller months.

50 Cent has spoken astir Combs’ parties successful the past, describing the ambiance arsenic “uncomfortable,” and has promised a tell-all documentary is successful the works titled Diddy Do It?, which is acceptable to screen each of the caller allegations.

“This is simply a communicative with important quality impact. It is simply a analyzable communicative spanning decades, not conscionable the headlines oregon clips seen truthful far,” 50 and manager Alexandria Stapleton said successful a associated connection to Variety precocious past month. “We stay steadfast successful our committedness to springiness a dependable to the voiceless and to contiguous authentic and nuanced perspectives.”

They continued: “While the allegations are disturbing, we impulse each to retrieve that Sean Combs’ communicative is not the afloat communicative of hip-hop and its culture. We purpose to guarantee that idiosyncratic actions bash not overshadow the culture’s broader contributions.”

50’s been trolling Combs relentlessly for months, adjacent anterior to September’s indictment. “I been telling y’all astir each this weird s–t, I don’t bash NO puffy party’s [sic]. you didn’t judge maine but I stake you judge maine now,” helium shared connected societal media alongside his announcement of the documentary coming to Netflix.

Ashton Kutcher

“I’ve got a batch I can’t tell,” Kutcher revealed astir attending Combs’ White Parties connected a 2019 occurrence of Hot Ones. “Can’t archer that 1 either. … I’m really cycling done them. Diddy enactment stories, man, that was immoderate weird representation lane thing.”

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He told big Sean Evans that his narration with the rapper was “really bizarre,” and explained that the 2 connected erstwhile Kutcher was filming the MTV prank show, Punk’d.

“It started implicit Punk’d due to the fact that helium was like, ‘Yo, you can’t punk me!’ I was like, ‘I don’t cognize what to archer you, everybody is connected the table.’ That started our conversation. We became accelerated friends and we utilized to conscionable bent out, ticker shot together.”

Ray J

In an interrogation with NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo past month, Ray J claimed that portion he’s attended Combs’ parties, helium ne'er witnessed immoderate enactment trafficking oregon crimes instrumentality place.

“We’ve ne'er seen the worldly that’s being said and the worldly that radical are uncovering out, like, I’ve ne'er been successful rooms that radical are talking astir and I ne'er knew they existed,” helium said.

Aubrey O’Day

Aubrey O’Day — who was erstwhile signed to Bad Boy Records and worked with the shaper successful the 2000s — reacted to the quality that Combs volition soon look much than 100 lawsuits from accusers, penning successful a station to X this week that “so galore radical person tried to pass you.”

“His behaviour could person been stopped agelong earlier things similar this broke our hearts to read, his maltreatment didn’t person to scope maine & galore others including women, men, & minors.. whom of which volition everlastingly traumatize an full industry,” she wrote. “He is simply a soulless quality wrong of a systemic occupation wrong the amusement manufacture that has been ran by soulless radical earlier helium adjacent deed the scene.”

“So galore radical person tried to pass you, but his charisma fooled you,” she added. “A batch of radical are liable for keeping him successful a spot of powerfulness & visibility, and if that portion resonates for you … whitethorn you consciousness the aforesaid grieving that each of his victims won’t ever beryllium capable to afloat repair, you were complicit. That needs to beryllium acknowledged earlier things tin genuinely change. delight deliberation doubly earlier you laughter astatine the jokes circulating.. a batch of people’s lives were changed everlastingly aft crossing paths with this man.”

Russell Brand

In a resurfaced video from 2010, Russell Brand told BlackTree TV that Combs took him connected an “enforced holiday” erstwhile the brace were moving connected the movie Get Him to the Greek.

“Diddy is caller to me, right?” Brand said astatine the time. “He looked aft me, helium took maine connected an enforced vacation to Vegas.”

“He’s a precise aggravated antheral because… I deliberation helium comes from nothing, and present he’s very, precise powerful. People that bash worldly similar that, they’re intense.”

“Now, I similar him, he’s precise influential,” Brand explained, adding that saying nary to Combs was difficult.

“Say that you don’t privation to bash thing and Diddy does privation you to bash it, it’s truly hard to not bash that happening … you inactive bash it due to the fact that you think, ‘Ahh, don’t upset him.’ He’s an influential person.”

“He whitethorn inquire you for loads of favors and you can’t accidental nary to him. That’s my interest … pressure,” helium added. “I don’t privation to beryllium nobody’s b—h, I enactment excessively hard successful life, not adjacent Diddy’s b—h.”

Jenny Mollen

A week aft Diddy’s arrest, histrion Jenny Mollen took to societal media to uncover she was invited to a “freak off” erstwhile she was conscionable 19.

“I was successful San Diego and this feline came implicit and he’s similar ‘My brag wants to conscionable you,'” Mollen recalled connected Instagram, noting that she was dressed down successful jeans and a button-up garment and “not giving enactment vibes.”

She claimed Combs invited her up to his country for a party, but she yet declined.

“Guys, would I person been successful a freak-off?” she asked her followers, earlier laughing. “Would I person been captured successful his room… and would determination beryllium footage of maine to this time successful benignant of a brainsick exploitative freak off?”

Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones

Lil Rod, a shaper connected Combs’ latest album, dropped a bombshell suit against his erstwhile brag this year, accusing the rapper of grooming and exposing him to respective crimes.

In an August interrogation with Rolling Stone, helium called Combs a “monster” and said helium is hiding, acrophobic that helium volition beryllium killed.

“He’s a monster,” Jones told the magazine. “He’ll bash immoderate is indispensable to get precisely what helium wants. He doesn’t instrumentality nary for an answer. He [told me] himself, ‘I’ll smack my mama.’ Anybody who tin accidental that adjacent jokingly is simply a monster. He’s thing to beryllium played with. For a idiosyncratic whose marque is Love Records, and changed their sanction to Love and named their kid Love, helium doesn’t amusement love. He’s conscionable marketing.”

In the lawsuit, Jones said helium spent clip surviving with Combs portion moving connected the medium betwixt 2022 and 2023. He claims helium was forced by Combs to prosecute successful enactment acts, solicit enactment workers, and was repeatedly drugged and groped.

“Because of this lawsuit, astir people don’t privation to travel adjacent moving with me for immoderate reasons, whether they’ve been successful concern with Puff oregon they privation to conscionable beryllium backmost and spot what happens,” Jones told Rolling Stone.

“He’s a gatekeeper successful the euphony industry,” helium added of Combs. “In this industry, to beryllium successful, you person to person worked with idiosyncratic similar him oregon Jay-Z, Dr. Dre, Kanye oregon 50 Cent. So galore radical I’ve worked with person had concern deals with him. I reached retired to effort to get a woody for my album, and radical don’t privation to get involved.”

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