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It’s been a month since Diddy posted his widely-panned apology video on Instagram following the release of the security footage of him viciously beating Cassie in a hotel hallway in 2016. Recently, Diddy took down all of his Instagram posts down including his half-assed apology, and many people are curious as to why.
According to TMZ, the disgraced music mogul wiped his social media page clean just last week. Naturally, many people began to come up with their theories behind Diddy’s actions, but apparently, it was just something Diddy has been wanting to do for a while. Looking to get a fresh new start on social media, the No Way Out rapper has apparently rebooted his online life as his actual life continues to go through all kinds of turmoil.
TMZ reports:
The internet was rife with theories on what might’ve been behind the move — but sources with direct knowledge have assured us there’s nothing behind the move other than Puff wanting to reset his posts … something we’re told he’s done in the past.
We’re told Diddy wasn’t taking a dig at Cassie either by getting rid of his apology — which is evident in the fact that he deleted all of his posts … not just that one.
The way our sources put it … Diddy’s apology was seen around the world and got published/broadcast everywhere — so everyone’s seen it, and it exists forever. In terms of how feels … we’re told Diddy meant what he said in that clip, and that stands even today.
In other words … him scrubbing his IG is in no way a swipe at his ex — nor is it him downplaying the seriousness of his sitch. Plus … our sources say he’s done this before — so this isn’t out of the ordinary for him … it’s just magnified because of all the attention lately.
It could also be that he doesn’t want any of his past posts used as evidence as authorities continue to investigate him for drug and sex trafficking. Just sayin’.
Naturally, his team is saying this wasn’t a “strategic” move. But with all the heat that Diddy’s been getting from the Department Of Justice, he should understand why people are suspicious of his latest actions.
Why do you think Diddy erased his entire Instagram page? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Ever since the video of Diddy horrifically assaulting Cassie in a hotel hallway hit the internet, Diddy’s been keeping a low profile as everyone and their mama has been vocal in their disgust and dismay at his inexcusable actions.
The video even prompted the struggle mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, to suggest that he was going to revoke the key to the city that Diddy was given just last year, and sure enough, Diddy has seemingly complied.
According to the Huffpost, the revered music icon turned-social pariah has indeed given up his key to the city after receiving letters from the mayor’s office asking that he return the symbolic gesture of civic recognition as they no longer feel Diddy is worthy of the honor. While some may have blown off the letters and kept it moving, Diddy respected the request and returned the award.
Per Huffpost:
The mayor’s office said Combs returned the key after Adams sent letters to the embattled musician’s offices in New York and California on June 4 rescinding the key and asking for it to be sent back to City Hall. The city received the key June 10.
In his letter, Adams wrote he was “deeply disturbed” by the attack, adding “I strongly condemn these actions and stand in solidarity with all survivors of domestic and gender-based violence.”
Combs’ career has been derailed by numerous accusations of sexual abuse, as well as a federal criminal sex-trafficking investigation that led to raids of Combs’ mansions in Los Angeles and Miami.
The news comes just weeks after Howard University also rescinded the honorary degree they awarded Diddy in 2014 and ended the scholarship program they had under his name.
While we’re sure these things hurt Diddy’s pride, he has much more to worry about as a grand jury has been empaneled in connection to the investigation into his many crimes against humanity.
What do y’all think of Diddy giving up his key to the city? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Howard University announced that it is rescinding the honorary degree it bestowed on Sean “Diddy” Combs in 2014. The decision comes after video footage was revealed in May of the disgraced Hip-Hop mogul beating his ex-girlfriend and Bad Boy recording artist Cassie Ventura in a hotel lobby in 2016.
On Friday, June 7, the Howard University Board of Trustees announced that it decided to rescind Combs’ honorary degree and to return the $1 million the former student (he never actually graduated) had pledged to the school.
“The Howard University Board of Trustees voted unanimously today to accept the return by Mr. Sean Combs of the honorary degree conferred upon him in 2014,” said an official statement from Howard’s Board of Trustees. “This acceptance revokes all honors and privileges associated with the degree.”
Also, HU is effectively wiping any association with Diddy, who attended the HBCU in the early nineties before dropping out to pursue his career in the music business full time.
The statement continued, “Accordingly, the Board has directed that his name be removed from all documents listing honorary degree recipients of Howard University. Mr. Combs’ behavior as captured in a recently released video is so fundamentally incompatible with Howard University’s core values and beliefs that he is deemed no longer worthy to hold the institution’s highest honor.”
Interestingly, although Diddy originally pledged the $1 million donation in 2016, the Board’s statement reveals that no payments had been made by him or the Sean Combs Foundation to date. So there is no money to return (under a 2023 agreement). The scholarship program established in Combs’ name will also be disbanded.
Diddy, who has always spoken fondly of his time as an undergrad, was the commencement speaker at Howard in 2014 when he received the honorary degree.
Howard is just the latest entity to sever ties with Diddy. Others include Revolt, the media company he founded, and Hulu, which nixed a reality series about his family.
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With the release of the video which caught Diddy assaulting Cassie in a hotel in 2016, many of his fans and peers have turned their back on the Hip-Hop icon. Now, you can add Ray J to that growing list as he feels the Bad Boy founder deserves to have hands put on him as well.
Just days after Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, said she’d welcome the opportunity to slap Diddy for his abusive ways, Ray J echoed the sentiment during his sit-down interview with Shannon Sharpe on Club Shay Shay. Delving into the topic of his friendship with P. Diddy, Shannon asked Ray J about his thoughts on the situation that The Diddler finds himself in following the release of the Cassie video and everything else that’s been brought to light as well.
Not one to mince his words, Ray J expressed his disappointment in Diddy. “Everybody messes up, but we can’t be cool after that. It’s unforgivable, it’s too much,” he said. “Never being able to be around us and our world ’cause we don’t condone that is definitely a fact. And from there you have to go on that journey on your own and find yourself and find forgiveness for yourself somewhere far from where we’re at. There’s no room for that here.”
Aside from asking Diddy to keep his distance from himself and everyone else who isn’t a part of abusive culture, Ray J feels that a public beating would be a proper punishment for the Hip-Hop superstar-turned public pariah.
“The homie need a public whipping. It’s the only way it’s going to be right. With a pubic whipping.” Demonstrating that Puff should be tied with his hands in the air, Ray J says P. Diddy should get “100 lashes.”
Yeah, we’re not sure if that exact method of punishment is called for. We’d rather Biggie’s mom just slap him in public while he’s getting hauled off to prison or something. Just sayin’.
Ray J also took the time to apologize to Cassie for not knowing what was going on when he kicked it with her and Puff and praised her for being strong in such dire times saying, “You are strong. I’m sorry for everything that you encountered. I’ve been around you, I’ve been around y’all. I never knew and I apologize for even continuing to just be around.”
Check out Ray J speak on Puff and Cassie, and let us know your thoughts on the situation in the comments section below.
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The downfall of Sean “Diddy” Combs continues as more stories about his godawful behavior emerge.
Whatever is left of Diddy, aka The Diddler’s reputation, was flushed down the toilet after CNN shared graphic surveillance footage of the rapper/mogul viciously beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
The shocking video came after Cassie slapped the Bad Boy CEO with a lawsuit in November alleging physical/sexual abuse and psychological torment that he eventually settled.
But the damage was already done from the lawsuit because Cassie’s bravery opened the floodgates, leading to six more lawsuits accusing the mogul of drugging, assault, rape, and being a part of a sex trafficking operation.
Now, a new report from The Daily Beast details numerous accounts of terrifying behavior from Diddy that several former employees endured while working for him at lifestyle brand Sean John and his now-shuttered advertising agency Blue Flame.
One Former Sean John Employee Claims Diddy Grabbed Her Face
Working at Sean John was a nightmare for one former female employee at Sean John, detailing an incident when Combs grabbed her face, even making her stick out her tongue.
Per The Daily Beast:
“He didn’t like that I wasn’t agreeing with him, and he wasn’t interested in hearing my point of view,” the former employee recalled.
Instead, Combs allegedly began to yell and compared himself to a renowned fashion designer. “When you speak to me, you should imagine that you’re talking to Karl Lagerfeld,” she recalled Combs telling her. “Anything I say, assume that it’s coming from Karl Lagerfeld.”
“At that point, I didn’t have a response to that, and he reaches out and he grabs my face,” she added. “He puts one hand on both sides of my cheeks and says ‘Stick out your tongue,’ and then he squeezes my face harder and yells at me to stick out my tongue, forces his hands on my face.”
She recounted how Combs then told her he “just wanted to see” if her tongue was bleeding, because she was clearly biting it.
The employee said she “started looking for a job immediately.”
Another Employee Lost His Job Because of How He Looked At Diddy
The Daily Beast details a story from another former employee who lost his job just by making eye contact with the “Victory” crafter because he was upset with the Diddy for showing up hours late for a meeting.
The employee tells the website that Combs “took the look that I gave him personally.”
“There was erratic behavior, there was definitely what I would consider mental abuse, [with] how he spoke to us as employees,” the person told The Daily Beast, noting the insane 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. work hours due to Combs’ insane demands and the “culture of fear” he spearheaded at his company. “There was “a lot of profanity, kind of aggressive, in your face—physically in your face—kind of stuff,” the employee said.
This latest news comes after Rolling Stone’s earth-shattering expose on Diddy. He also divested from Revolt, giving all current and future employees equity in the company.
You can read the rest of the story by heading here.
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Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly sold his majority stake in Revolt. He founded the media company back in 2013.
Diddy’s once thought-to-be impregnable empire and reputation has been seemingly coming apart at the seams ever since November 16, 2023, when Cassie Ventura filed a lawsuit against the mogul accusing him of sexual assault, amongst other crimes. Although the suit was settled a day after it was filed, the damn had been broken, with multiple victims since coming forward to accuse Combs of similar abuse.
Initially, Diddy vehemently denied all the claims, and he still does, save for former Bad Boy artist Ventura’s. But that seems to be only because in May 2024, CNN acquired and shared footage of Diddy beating Cassie in the hall of a Los Angeles hotel back in 2016. The video of the incident confirmed what Cassie had described in her lawsuit. A video apology issue by Diddy shorty thereafter was almost universally maligned for its alleged insincerity.
On Tuesday (June 4), Revolt announced that Combs had sold his stake in the company. Prior to that, in late November 2023, Revolt shared that Diddy had stepped from his position as Chairman of the company.
Revolt now boasts that it is owned by employees, and remains Black-owned. “REVOLT is honored and proud to announce that, in an unprecedented and historic move in the Black media space, our newly projected largest shareholder group are REVOLT’s current employees,” read a statement announcing Combs’ shared have been “fully redeemed and retired.” “Our mission to become the largest media company powered by creators and fueled by the culture continues.”
The New York Times reports that Detavio Samuel’s, Revolt’s CEO, says, “One-hundred percent of Sean Combs’s shares have been redeemed and retired,” Mr. Samuels said in the interview. “He is no longer chairman. He is no longer on the board. He has no shares, no equity in Revolt. We have completely separated and dissociated from each other.”
Some of the other entities that have cut ties with Combs or hs products include Hulu, Capital Preparatory Schools and America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses.
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2024 has not been kind to Diddy as his dirty laundry has been aired for all to see. While most of his peers and fans wouldn’t even want to be in the same room as him these days, Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, wouldn’t mind getting close to him one more time if for no other reason than to put hands on him.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the woman who blessed us with arguably the greatest rapper of all time, expressed disgust and anger at the news of Diddy’s countless allegations of abuse, violence and intimidation of others and said all those things made her “sick to my stomach.” While like many, Ms. Wallace didn’t want to believe all the wild allegations thrown at Diddy by various people in recent months. The video of him beating on Cassie in a hotel hallway showed her a side of Sean Combs she had never seen.
“I’m praying for Cassie. I’m praying for his mother. I don’t want to believe the things that I’ve heard, but I’ve seen [the hotel video]. I pray that he apologizes to her,” Ms. Wallace told Rolling Stone.
Diddy did somewhat offer a half-assed apology to Cassie, but that didn’t fly over too well with fans and Cassie herself.
Still, Ms. Wallace does say she wouldn’t mind seeing Diddy again in person as she feels the need to teach him a thing old-school style. Truth be told, we kind of hope she does.
“I hope that I see Sean one day and the only thing I want to do is slap the daylights out of him,” she continued. “And you can quote me on that. Because I liked him. I didn’t want to believe all the awful things, but I’m so ashamed and so embarrassed.”
We’re sure lots of people are ashamed and embarrassed to have ties to Diddy now that his heinous behavior has come to light.
The interview comes on the heels of reports that a grand jury has been empaneled in connection to the investigation of Diddy, which could lead to the “Bad Boy For Life” rapper getting indicted and possibly sentenced to prison for quite a long time. So if Ms. Wallace actually does want to slap some sense into her son’s former boss, she’ll have to move fast before the feds catch up to him. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think of Voletta Wallace’s feelings towards Diddy? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Some phrases often heard when discussing Sean “Diddy” Combs lately include “How did he get away with it?” or “No one said anything?” In a new exposé from Rolling Stone, some of those questions are answered as the magazine took an in-depth look at the sordid behavior that the multihyphenate mogul has seemingly been practicing all along during his rise as a Hip-Hop icon.
It’s not hyperbole that Diddy is now officially disgraced after CNN revealed video footage of the Bad Boy Records founder brutally beating his then girlfriend, singer Cassie Ventura, in a hotel lobby back in 2016. By now you’ve probably heard the story—Cassie filed a lawsuit against Diddy accusing him of rape and sex trafficking, amongst other offenses, that he quickly settled the next day.
Cassie’s bravery in coming forward with her truth opened the door for more women, and a man, to come forward with lawsuits accusing Combs of a myriad of heinous charges that include sexual assault, trafficking and even illegal firearms. Save for the faux-apology he delivered after the hotel footage’s release, Diddy has been adamant that all the other acclaims are essentially money grabs and that he is the actual victim.
Well, Rolling Stone sorted through all the receipts in the aforementioned lawsuits and also reached out to former Bad Boy employees, artists, friends and associates to paint a picture of who they describe as an “abusive, menacing figure.” The 6-month investigation led to the painting of a figure who has basically been a problem since his school days at Howard University when he was the party promoter and student who also finessed his way into an internship at Uptown Records, and eventually on to Hip-Hop stardom. During that ascent, there have allegedly been dozens of people traumatized by his behavior.
To say that what Rolling Stone’s investigative report is damning would be an understatement. Here are some of the wildest revelations and allegations in the story.
1. Her Too
Gina Huynh is an ex-girlfriend of Diddy who accused him of abuse while speaking to gossip blogger Tasha K (yes, the same one who owes Cardi B money) back in 2019. However, her story didn’t get much traction.
Also worth noting, a personal chef who sued Diddy claims she walked in on him and Huynh engaging in “sexual activity.” The chef, Cindy Rueda, sued Diddy for sexual harassment, and it was settled out of court.
2. No Way
Former Bad Boy President Kirk Burrow told Rolling Stone that after the mag approached Bad Boy about a Notorious B.I.G. cover after the rapper’s death, Diddy instead pushed for his own cover to help promote his own debut album, No Way Out. Bruh.
“I was telling Sean, ‘Let’s make it Biggie. You still have a chance [for a cover in the future],’” Burrowes recalls. “He’s like ‘No, he’s dead. I’m putting out [Combs’ debut album, No Way Out] in July. I need to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.’”
3. Not Kim
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Much has been said about Kim Porter being Diddy’s one true love. However, the late model who shared three children with Diddy was also allegedly physically abused by him as well. And it goes without saying that he was anything but faithful. She reportedly broke up with him when he had another child while she was pregnant with her twin girls.
4. Shakir Stewart was minding his business…
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Shakir Stewart was a decorated music executive who passed away in 2008 (he was Def Jam’s VP of A&R at the time). But back in 2000, he made the mistake of daring to be romantically involved with Kim Porter, which in turn enrage Mr. Combs.
Per Rolling Stone: In 2000, Porter’s fledgling courtship with late music executive Shakir Stewart enraged Combs. When the industry gathered for L.A. Reid’s wedding in Italy that summer, Combs went to Stewart’s room after the ceremony and allegedly broke a chair over Stewart’s head, Stewart’s mother and two of his close friends tell Rolling Stone. “He left him bleeding on a hotel floor in Italy,” Stewart’s mother, Portia, says. “He had to have stitches and then [Combs] threatened him … ‘I’m going to kill you’ … That’s when I said you need to get out of this business. This man is crazy.”
5. Hate Me Now
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Too often forgotten is how back in 1999, Diddy and his bodyguards barged into then Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute’s office laid hands and feet on him. Reportedly, Diddy was upset with the edit of Nas’ “Hate Me Now” video that was sent to MTV. They settled out of court for about $500K (at minimum), and are still friends. But yeah, that happened.
6. Tupac Was Cool On Puff
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Apparently Tupac’s “I Get Around” was studied by Bad Boy Records execs in how to make a commercial Hip-Hop hit. Diddy tried to befriend Pac, but while the latter rapper was cool, for a time, with the Notorious B.I.G., he considered Puff a “corny” executive according to photographer and Biggie’s homie Monqiue Bunn.
7. P. Satan?
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Andre Harrell was Diddy’s mentor, but the student became terror in the office at Uptown Records. So much so that the other execs reportedly referred to him as “Satan” behind his back. Eventually, Harrell fired him.
8. HU Diddy
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Part of Diddy’s origin story is the couple of years he spent at HBCU Howard University as an undergrad where he gained a rep for throwing incredible parties. Unfortunately, Rolling Stone tracked down witnesses who said he beat a girlfriend on campus with a belt in a fit of rage.
“Puff is out here acting crazy. He’s beating her,” the fellow students said, according to the classmate.”
9. Bad Boy x BMF
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The Black Mafia Family was infamous in the streets. But BMF allegedly planting see money for Bad Boy Records wasn’t on our bing card. A stray line from a portion about the Feds raiding Diddy’s homes in Miami and Los Angeles reads: “Agents may also examine Combs’ alleged ties to the infamous Black Mafia Family cartel after the Detroit Jane Doe alleged in her suit that the group “is rumored to have seeded Bad Boy.” (No criminal charges have been announced as of publication.)”
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Yung Miami turned heads and raised eyebrows in 2023 when she confessed during a Q&A session that she allowed her ex-lover Sean “Diddy” Combs to perform golden showers with her. This past weekend, Yung Miami said she never allowed Diddy to do the act and claimed she only said so to sell her drinking card game, Resha Roulette.
This past Sunday (May 26), Yung Miami took to X, formerly Twitter, where she often engages with fans and detractors alike with the same passion and walked back the statement she made last year on her REVOLT talk show Caresha Please regarding Diddy and golden showers. By now, we shouldn’t have to explain what golden showers are, right? Right. So let’s get into how this latest bit of discussion popped off.
The City Girls rapper and social media star asked her followers a rather innocent question via X and things were flowing well until one user got out of pocket.
“Do you remember why you fell in love with me????” read YM’s X reply, with a Nicki Minaj stan account replying “When I found out you loved getting pissed on.”
YM replied to the stan account with, “A n*gga NEVER EVER PEE’D on ME! I did that tp promote my card game [and] it did exactly what I needed to do!”
Of course, X being the petty sleuths they are, pulled out receipts to prove that YM was either lying or misremembering the moment.
For a brief moment, fans looking to throw stones behind their computer screens took the exchange as a moment to dump on YM and dress her down as social media fans often aim to do.
Overall, Yung Miami didn’t seem phased by the attacks and shot it down while continuing to move on and live her life out loud with several of her fans praising her looks and new music.
Check out some of the reactions below.
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Just when it seemed like things couldn’t get worse for P. Diddy following the release of a video that captured him stomping out Cassie in a hotel hallway, it looks like things are really about to go downhill for embattled music icon as the feds are ramping up their investigation.
According to CNN, a federal grand jury has been empaneled in New York City in connection to an investigation into Sean “Brother Love” Combs. Potential witnesses who have filed lawsuits against Diddy have been notified by prosecutors that they may be called in to testify before the grand jury. This is a huge step by the authorities as they seek the green light to indict the mogul who is now easily considered to be the most hated man in the music industry today.
CNN reports:
A spokesperson for the Homeland Security Investigations agency (HSI) declined to comment on the existence of a grand jury, but noted the investigation remains ongoing.
These potential witnesses have not yet been prepped for testimony, both sources told CNN, cautioning that HSI investigators are still in the process of gathering evidence and questioning potential sources of information in their federal probe into Combs.
One source said investigators are being thorough and taking their time to ensure that an indictment, should there be one, is “bulletproof.”
Well, Diddy did once say “Not guilty and I’m filthy!” on G-Dep’s “Let’s Get It” back in 2001. We wonder if that’ll be introduced into evidence at some point.
Aside from people who’ve filed cases against the founder of Bad Boy Records, authorities have also interviewed others who’ve claimed to have been violated by Diddy in some way, shape or form, and if their claims are to be believed, Diddy’s looking at a lengthy sentence behind bars.
At least one male sex worker, who claims he has been victimized by Combs, has been questioned during the investigation, one source said, adding that this individual was seen in footage that is in possession of the federal investigators.
In some of the lawsuits against Combs, accusers have alleged that they were informed, after the fact, that they were recorded having sex without giving their consent to be filmed. Combs has not responded to this specific accusation, but he dismissed all alleged wrongdoing in a blanket denial he posted in December 2023.
In some of the civil suits, Combs is alleged of drugging multiple accusers. In the two most recent lawsuits filed against Combs within the past week, former fashion student April Lampros and former model Crystal McKinney both accused Combs of drugging them. In Lampros’ suit, she claims that Combs forced her to take ecstasy and then demand she have sexual intercourse with one of his former girlfriends before raping her.
Don’t be surprised if Diddy’s the next Hip-Hop artist to cozy up to Donald Trump in hopes of a presidential pardon or something. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think of feds ramping up their investigation into P. Diddy? Should he be counting his days? Let us know in the comments section below.
