Sean “Diddy” Combs’ notorious events are being known as into query amid the rapper’s authorized troubles.
After dealing with a number of sexual assault and abuse allegations from a number of folks, Diddy, 54, was arrested in New York Metropolis on September 16 and later charged with intercourse trafficking and racketeering. In his 14-page indictment, Diddy was accused of orchestrating events generally known as “Freak Offs,” throughout which “elaborate and produced intercourse performances” would happen.
In keeping with the indictment, Diddy allegedly pressured ladies into partaking in “intercourse acts with male industrial intercourse employees” utilizing medication and would “[masturbate] throughout, and sometimes electronically report” the interactions.
The indictment additionally revealed that Homeland Safety found “numerous ‘Freak Off’ provides” after they raided Diddy’s houses in March, together with “narcotics and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant.”
Diddy’s lawyer Marc Agnifilo claimed the musician was “harmless” in an announcement after his arrest. Diddy was denied bail after pleading not responsible and was ordered to stay in jail till his trial.
Whereas a number of celebrities have spoken out about attending Diddy’s events, it’s unknown who attended in his alleged “Freak Offs.”
Sean “Diddy” Combs, Ashton Kutcher, Khloe Kardashian. Getty Photographs(3)
Diddy beforehand suspected that his events would increase eyebrows in a 1999 interview with Leisure Tonight, saying, “They’re going to in all probability be arresting me, doing all kinds of loopy issues simply because we wish to have a superb time. Everytime you deliver up a unique ingredient into folks’s atmosphere, issues that broaden folks’s horizons, folks get intimidated. It’s lots of people on the market that really feel intimidated by it.”
The Grammy winner additionally joked about his ways for retaining ladies from ditching his get-togethers in a 2002 episode of Late Evening With Conan O’Brien. When requested easy methods to throw a “killer celebration,” he replied, “Girls. Stunning ladies, in fact. Stunning males for the women, in fact. You want some water. I don’t know if guys have observed this however numerous women drink water at events, so if you happen to don’t have what they want, they’re going to go away. Gotta hold them there. Want locks on the doorways.”
When O’Brien stated his suggestion about utilizing locks sounded “kinda harmful,” Diddy retorted by saying it was “slightly kinky.”
Scroll right down to see what celebrities have stated about selecting to attend or skip events hosted by Diddy through the years:
Ashton Kutcher
“I’ve bought quite a bit I can’t inform,” Kutcher stated when requested about attending Diddy’s get-togethers throughout a 2019 Scorching Ones interview. “Can’t inform that one both. … I’m truly biking by way of them. Diddy celebration tales, man, that was some bizarre reminiscence lane factor.”
He went on to name his relationship with Diddy “actually weird,” explaining, “It began over Punk’d as a result of he was like, ‘Yo, you may’t punk me!’ I used to be like, ‘I don’t know what to inform you, everyone is on the desk.’ That began our dialog. We turned quick pals and we used to simply hang around, watch soccer collectively.”
Years earlier than two of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ houses have been raided in connection to a federal intercourse trafficking investigation, there was dialog about what went on on the rapper’s residences. After the March 2024 raid made headlines, a clip resurfaced of Usher recalling his expertise dwelling with Diddy as a youngster. “I bought an opportunity to […]
Ice Dice
The rapper clarified to followers that he had no affiliation with Diddy throughout a September 22 live performance in Las Vegas. “Me and W.C. ain’t by no means been to a Diddy celebration,” he instructed attendees, per social media footage. “You ain’t gotta fear about us on these motherf—ing tapes.”
Kelly Ripa
Throughout a June 2023 episode of Dwell With Kelly and Mark, Ripa expressed her curiosity in attending one in every of Diddy’s celeb gatherings. “I used to be in Capri, and I used to be truly visiting my huge brother Puff’s boat,” visitor Mary J. Blige stated. Ripa replied, “Subsequent time you go on Puff’s boat, we’d wish to!”
Celebrities are weighing in following the latest arrest of Sean “Diddy” Combs. The music mogul was taken into custody in New York on September 16. The next day, a 14-page indictment alleging that Diddy “abused, threatened and coerced ladies and others round him” was made public. The rapper has since entered a not responsible plea […]
Damon Sprint
“I didn’t go to these events,” Sprint stated in a September 22 Instagram Dwell after images resurfaced of him at a Diddy-hosted celebration with Jay-Z and Jennifer Lopez. “I went to at least one within the Hamptons about 20 years in the past with Aaliyah and that’s about it. However lots of people have been at these, you already know what I imply?”
He continued: “Ain’t s— occur within the Hamptons. That’s the day I met [Aaliyah]. We hung on the market after which we left and that’s what occurred. That was 20 years in the past, that was not in L.A. or Miami. I do know they’re gonna play video games with these photos. It’s all good, I don’t actually care.” (Sprint dated Aaliyah from 2000 till her dying the next 12 months.)
Khloé Kardashian
Kardashian seemingly shared particulars about attending a Diddy celebration in an August 2014 episode of Maintaining Up With the Kardashians. “So who was with you this weekend?” Kourtney Kardashian requested Khloé about her weekend in Las Vegas.
“A bunch of my pals,” Khloé replied, itemizing names similar to Diddy and French Montana.
Khloé continued to explain the celebration later within the episode, stating, “This celebration, I believe half the folks have been butt-naked.”
Usher
“I went there to see the life-style, and I noticed it, however I don’t know if I may indulge and perceive what I used to be even taking a look at. It was fairly wild, it was loopy,” Usher recalled of dwelling with Diddy for a 12 months when he was a youngster within the ’90s throughout a 2016 The Howard Stern Present radio interview.
When requested whether or not he would let any of his children attend one in every of Diddy’s events, Usher declared, “Hell no!”
50 Cent
“I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy events and doing s— like that,” 50 Cent acknowledged in a July interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve been staying out of that s— for years. It’s simply an uncomfortable vitality related to it.”
He went on so as to add: “[Diddy] requested to take me purchasing. I believed that was the weirdest s— on the earth as a result of that could be one thing {that a} man says to a girl. And I’m similar to, ‘Naw, I’m not f—ing with this bizarre vitality or bizarre s—,’ coming off the best way he was simply shifting. From that, I wasn’t comfy round him.”
Ray J
Throughout a September 20 interview on Chris Cuomo’s NewsNation present, Ray J claimed that he by no means witnessed any crimes or intercourse trafficking happen at Diddy’s events. “We’ve by no means seen the stuff that’s being stated and the stuff that individuals are discovering out, like, I’ve by no means been in rooms that individuals are speaking about and I by no means knew they existed,” he acknowledged.
Katt Williams
“I’ve needed to flip down $50 million 4 occasions. Simply to guard my integrity and that virgin gap I used to be telling you about, proper?” Williams remarked about turning down a suggestion to attend a Diddy celebration throughout a January interview on the “Membership Shay Shay” podcast. “’Trigger P. Diddy be desirous to celebration, and you bought to inform him no. You bought to inform him no! I did. See, I bought the receipts for every little thing I’m telling you, that’s why I can say them so freely.”
On the time, he additionally teased that extra celeb scandals would quickly come to mild, including, “It’s up for all of them. It don’t matter if it’s Diddy or whoever you is.”
Kendra Wilkinson
The Lady Subsequent Door alum went to “one or two” of Diddy’s events of their heyday.
“I had a good time in my youth. I didn’t actually see something,” Wilkinson stated on the Kyle and Jackie O radio present in September 2024. “Like, I by no means noticed something actually unhealthy taking place round me. Intercourse is intercourse, for my part. I’m not saying that one thing unhealthy didn’t occur. I’m saying that nothing unhealthy ever occurred to me.”
Jenny Mollen
Mollen claimed in a September 2024 Instagram video that she turned down an invite to one in every of Diddy’s events years prior.
“One time once I was like 19, I used to be in San Diego and this man came to visit and he’s like, ‘My boss desires to satisfy you,’” she alleged. “I had on this maroon button-up shirt, like, brick-colored, cotton button-up shirt, hideous denims and a idler. Not giving intercourse vibes.”
Mollen continued, “This man’s like, ‘My boss desires to satisfy you,’ and he’s like this huge bouncer-looking [man], who’s there in a fur coat type of vibes. … He’s like, ‘We’re having a celebration up in my room, do you guys wish to come?’ Guys, would I’ve been in a Freak Off? That’s what I’m studying, it’s known as a Freak Off. Would I’ve been captured in his room in my hideous maroon shirt? Would there be footage to at the present time of me in some kind of loopy exploitative Freak Off?”
Arsenio Corridor
Throughout an October 2024 interview on Howie Mandel’s podcast, the comic stated he’d been to some Diddy events — however not the type referenced within the rapper’s indictment.
“Have in mind, in all equity, there are completely different sorts of Diddy events. I’ve seen Diddy events the place youngsters have been there. … Let me begin over. The place, say for example, you employ an individual’s house and their household’s within the house, so it’s enjoyable, 8 p.m., numerous meals and music,” Corridor defined. “That’s one of many ones I went to. Now I’ve additionally seen those that last more than 8 or 9, and my secret has all the time been, initially, I don’t go anyplace with out my girl. I believe, don’t go anyplace alone. I swear to you, when you have the rule of not going anyplace alone, you don’t get in as a lot bother. … It’s whenever you go someplace alone and keep too lengthy, that’s when bother occurs.”
The previous speak present host added: “I’ve been to dinner events at Diddy’s homes. I’ve by no means been to those that I do know you’re hoping I can speak about.”
Nick Cannon
The Masked Singer host stated in October 2024 that he’d been to Diddy’s events however by no means noticed any of the notorious “Freak Offs” talked about within the indictment.
“I bear in mind standing exterior, you already know, attempting to get right into a Puff celebration out right here in New York,” Cannon recalled throughout an interview on Energy 105.1’s The Breakfast Membership. “Like, everyone was out. Like how the ‘One Extra Likelihood’ video appeared, that was actual, actual stuff out right here. Like, folks standing on the door [to see] who can get in and stuff like that. Unhealthy Boy events was official in New York within the late ’90s.”
Cannon famous he’d gone to at least one celebration round age 16 or 17, including: “Everyone will get scared to speak as a result of they in all probability bought one thing to cover. I ain’t bought nothing to cover. … I used to be in there [in] Harlem shaking, doing all of that stuff, nevertheless it wasn’t — come on, no matter.”
Bow Wow
Bow Wow attends Girls Love R&B Wednesday at Purple Martini on April 18, 2024 Prince Williams/WireImage
“I by no means thought I might see it like this,” the rapper stated of Diddy throughout an October 2024 look on the “Extra to the Story” podcast. “He’s just like the gatekeeper to the sport, to the purpose to the place BET Award weekend, just like the previous two, it simply didn’t really feel proper as a result of there was no movement, there was no events.”
The previous little one star continued: “However it exhibits how monumental how necessary he was to the tradition. I stated, ‘Jermaine [Dupri], there was no events.’ And you’re feeling it. It’s like a gap. He was simply such a gatekeeper for the liquor and the golf equipment. He was every little thing hip-hop. So for that to die out, you simply actually by no means thought. Particularly whenever you take a look at any person as any person you studied, any person you idolized.”
