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Diddy
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Full name	Sean Love Combs
Nationality	American
Location	United States
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Sean Love Combs (born: Sean John Combs; November 4, 1969 (1969-11-04)), better known professionally as Diddy (formerly Puff Daddy or P. Diddy), is an American rapper, record producer and record executive.

History

Sean John Combs was born on November 4, 1969, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Raised in Mount Vernon, New York. At age 33, Melvin, Combs dad, was shot dead while sitting in his car on Central Park West, when Combs was two years old. Combs has a sister.

Combs was raised Roman Catholic and served as an altar boy. He graduated from the all-boys Catholic school, Mount Saint Michael Academy in 1987. He played football for the academy, and his team won a division title in 1986. Combs said he was given the nickname "Puff" as a child, because he would "huff and puff" when he was angry.

Combs was a business major at Howard University, but left after his second year.

Combs became an intern at New York's Uptown Records in 1990. While working as a talent director at Uptown, under the guidance of label founder Andre Harrell, he helped develop Jodeci and Mary J. Blige. In his college days, Combs had a reputation for throwing parties. In 1991, Combs promoted an AIDS fundraiser with Heavy D held at the City College of New York gymnasium. The event was oversold, and a stampede occurred in which nine people died.

Shortly after being fired from Uptown in 1993, Combs established his own label Bad Boy Records, which entered a joint venture deal with Arista Records. Combs brought Uptown signee the Notorious B.I.G.. along with him to the newly established label.

In 1997, under the name Puff Daddy, Combs released his first commercial vocal work as a rapper. His debut single, "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down", spent 28 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number one.

Combs changed his stage name from "Puff Daddy" to "P. Diddy" in 2001.

On August 16, 2005, Combs announced on TODAY that he was altering his stage name yet again, he would be calling himself "Diddy". Combs said fans did not know how to address him, which led to confusion.

In January 2025, Peacock released the documentary movie "Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy" about Combs' life and his sexual misconduct allegations, and Investigation Discovery released a four-part docuseries "Fall of Diddy". On 12 February 2025, Combs' representatives filed a defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal, Peacock, and Ample Entertainment alleging that Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy contains defamatory statements.

Controversies

Club New York Shooting

In April 1999, Combs was charged with assaulting Steve Stoute. Combs was concerned that a video Stoute made, which featured a shot of Nas and Combs being crucified, was blasphemous. He asked for his scenes on the cross to be pulled, but after the video aired unedited on MTV on April 15, Combs visited Stoute's offices and injured Stoute.

Sexual Misconduct

In May 2017, Cindy Ruela filed a lawsuit against Combs in L.A. County Superior Court, claiming, among other things, sexual harassment and retaliation. The lawsuit was settled for an undisclosed amount in February 2019.

On November 16, 2023, Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against him accusing him of rape, sex trafficking, and physical abuse. The lawsuit also suggested that Combs was responsible for blowing up Ventura's then-boyfriend Kid Cudi's car. On November 23, 2023, Two lawsuits were filed against Combs with two additional complainants, alleging sexual assault and revenge porn. One of the lawsuits claimed that in 1990/1991, Combs and Aaron Hall had sexually abused a woman, with Combs recording the incident. On December 6, 2023, a lawsuit was filed in Manhattan district court by a woman who alleges that Combs raped her in 2003 when she was 17 years old. Combs quickly posted a response via social media, denying the allegations. In February 2024, a fifth lawsuit was brought against Combs when he was sued by music producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones. The case alleges that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted Jones, and also forced him to have sex with sex workers. Combs and Ventura reached an undisclosed settlement the following day, and the lawsuit was dismissed.

On May 17, 2024, CNN released surveillance footage of Combs physically assaulting Ventura at the InterContinental hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, on March 5, 2016. This incident was among the allegations made in the lawsuit. On May 19, 2024, Combs issued a video apology on Instagram and Facebook, stating he was "truly sorry" and that his actions were "inexcusable". Combs's assault of Ventura was stopped by hotel staff, after which Combs allegedly tried to bribe the staff, according to a federal indictment in September 2024.

On October 1, 2024, the Washington Post reported that a team of lawyers will be filing as many as 120 more lawsuits, covering assaults that took place during the 2000s and 2010s. Plaintiffs, 25 of whom are minors, are both male and female. Tony Buzbee, one of the attorneys on the team, said most of the alleged assaults took place in New York State. Half of the alleged victims say they reported the assault to police, to a doctor, or to the FBI. Some claim to have been drugged or offered hush money. Additional potential defendants other than Combs are also to be named in the lawsuits: "The names that we're going to name, assuming our investigators confirm and corroborate what we've been told, are names that will shock you", Buzbee commented at a press conference in Houston. "I'm talking here about not just the cowardly but complicit bystanders, that is those people that we know watched this behavior occur and did nothing. I'm talking about the people that participated, encouraged it, egged it on. They know who they are." Buzbee filed the first six of these lawsuits in New York federal court on October 13, 2024. Andrew Van Arsdale of the AVA Law Group, which is working with Buzbee, said they have heard abuse allegations against Combs from some three thousand people, and their team is currently actively examining another hundred potential cases. Erica Wolff, a member of Combs's legal team, told the BBC that Combs "looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation".

Combs was arrested and indicted in the Southern District of New York on September 16, 2024, on charges of racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for purposes of prostitution. He is awaiting trial in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. During a court appearance on October 10, 2024, Judge Arun Subramanian set Combs's trial start date as May 5, 2025. On November 27, 2024, a judge denied bail for a third time.

Discography

Albums

• No Way Out (1997)
• Forever (1999)
• The Saga Continues... (2001)
• Press Play (2006)
• Last Train to Paris (2010)
• 11 11 (2014)
• The Love Album: Off the Grid (2023)

Remix Albums

• We Invented the Remix (2002)

Mixtapes

• MMM (Money Making Mitch) (2015)

Singles

• Let's Get III (2003)
• Diddy Boppin' (2009)
• Love Come Down (2009)
• Big Homie (2014)
• I Want the Love (2014)
• Finna Get Loose (2015)
• Wactha Gon' Do? (2017)
• Act Bad (2023)

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