Amid a blizzard of authorized bother, a brand new in-depth report has raised troubling claims of historic abuse towards Sean “Diddy” Combs, and allegations from former associates, Unhealthy Boy Information workers and artists claiming the scandal-plagued music mogul was a violent determine behind the scenes.
Rolling Stone printed a bombshell report on Combs Tuesday night time, with the journal claiming they spoke to greater than 50 folks in his social {and professional} orbit, masking his time within the music trade and stretching again to his school days. The report, six months within the making, particulars that Combs has an alleged historical past of utilizing violence and intimidation, significantly in the direction of girls, and gives graphic descriptions a few sequence of harrowing incidents.
A number of sources informed Rolling Stone that Combs confirmed flashes of violent and controlling habits throughout his time at Howard College. In a single incident, a few of Combs’ school contemporaries describe how outdoors Howard’s Harriet Tubman Quadrangle dorm, a “belligerent” Combs began screaming for his girlfriend to return outdoors. The coed supply says that a number of feminine college students within the dorm had been conscious that Combs, identified then by his nickname “Puff,” was allegedly attacking his girlfriend outdoors the constructing and started elevating the alarm within the dorm. “Puff is out right here performing loopy. He’s beating her,” the guy college students stated, in accordance with the primary witness.
A second Howard pupil who witnessed the alleged assault informed Rolling Stone that Combs used what seemed to be a belt to hit the lady “all over.” The second witness stated Combs appeared “tremendous offended” and was “screaming on the high of his lungs.” The witness says Combs “whupped her butt — like actually whupped her butt” and that the lady was “making an attempt to defend herself just a little bit. She was crying. And we had been telling him, ‘Get off of her.’ We had been screaming for her.”
The girl that Combs’ is alleged to have attacked at Howard declined to remark, however Rolling Stone says {that a} third supply additionally recalled the incident.
In one other incident, Kirk Burrowes, Unhealthy Boy’s co-founding accomplice and president, claims he noticed Combs’ assault a girl contained in the report label’s workplace in 1994. Burrowes, who was fired from Unhealthy Boy in 1997, and one other ex-employee declare they needed to separate Combs from the lady after they heard screams and the sound of glass shattering.
In separate account, Unhealthy Boy worker Felicia Newsome alleges she as soon as needed to maintain Combs again when he was about to “beat this woman’s ass” after a battle broke out between two girls. “I’m holding him by his waist, saying, ‘It’s essential settle down. This isn’t your battle,’” Newsome recalled.
The Rolling Stone report alleges that Combs was a controlling determine, unwilling to let the ladies in his life transfer on after the top of a relationship. Combs is accused of assaulting late music government Shakir Stewart at a marriage in Italy, after Stewart had begun a relationship with Combs’ on-and-off accomplice Kim Porter. In the course of the alleged incident, which occurred in 2000 at music mogul L.A. Reid’s marriage ceremony, Combs is accused of in search of out Stewart in his resort room and assaulting him. Stewart’s mom, Portia Labrie, in addition to two of his shut associates, stated that Combs broke a chair over Stewart’s head. “He left him bleeding on a resort flooring in Italy,” Labrie says. “He needed to have stitches after which [Combs] threatened him … ‘I’m going to kill you’ … That’s after I stated, ‘It’s essential get out of this enterprise. This man is loopy.’”
Ever since his former girlfriend Cassandra Ventura, the singer often known as Cassie, filed a lawsuit in November 2023 alleging sexual and bodily abuse over almost a decade, Combs’ authorized issues have continued to mount. After settling his go well with with Cassie, Combs confronted three extra fits from girls alleging sexual assault. In March, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles, New York and Miami had been raided by federal brokers amid a intercourse trafficking investigation.
Regardless of settling the go well with with Cassie, Combs has denied assaulting her and likewise denied the claims within the different sexual assault fits. However he confronted additional intense scrutiny earlier this month after a 2016 surveillance video that confirmed him violently assaulting Cassie in a resort was obtained and launched by CNN.
Notably within the Rolling Stone report, three of the ladies who’ve accused Combs of sexual assault in latest lawsuits have spoken publicly for the primary time and reveal that after they discovered of Combs’ alleged sample of abuse, they got here ahead in hopes of holding the mogul accountable for his actions. Joi Dickerson-Neal, Crystal McKinney and an nameless “Jane Doe” spoke about their particular person experiences.
Dickerson-Neal, who sued Combs for sexual assault in November 2023, stated that her resolution to return ahead “isn’t about cash. It’s about ensuring the world sees that this man who rose to the extent of an ‘icon’ is definitely sick and has left so many victims in [the wake of his] unpunished disgusting habits for years.”
Rolling Stone notes within the report that the journal despatched Combs an in depth checklist of questions concerning the new and pending allegations, however that he didn’t particularly handle them. “Mr. Combs can not touch upon settled litigation, won’t touch upon pending litigation, and can’t handle each allegation picked up by the press from any supply, regardless of how unreliable,” stated his lawyer, Jonathan Davis, within the piece. “We’re conscious that the correct authorities are conducting an intensive investigation and due to this fact trust any vital points will likely be addressed within the correct discussion board, the place the principles distinguish info from fiction.”
The Hollywood Reporter has additionally reached out to legal professionals for Combs.
