After the music mogul was arrested on September 16, some celebrities have spoken out about Diddy, in addition to his notorious and wild events … whereas outdated interviews with different stars are going viral yet again.
Celebrities have been sharing their tales about Sean “Diddy” Combs following his latest arrest, from their alleged experiences at this all-infamous events — some referred to as “freak offs” — to working with the music mogul.
Everyone from Lance Bass to Kendra Wilkinson and Rosie O’Donnell are detailing their run-ins with Diddy as he dominates the headlines, whereas older interviews with stars together with Khloe Kardashian and Ashton Kutcher are additionally going viral yet again as a consequence of feedback they made on the time about their interactions rapper.
Diddy was arrested on September 16 on fees of racketeering conspiracy, intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion, and transportation to have interaction in prostitution, per TMZ.
His arrest was sparked largely by his ex, Cassie Ventura, who spoke out practically a 12 months in the past, accusing the Bad Boy rapper of sexual and bodily violence in opposition to her. After submitting a lawsuit in opposition to Diddy — which was settled quickly after — CNN launched video footage, which noticed Diddy bodily assaulting the singer-model within the hallway of Los Angeles-area lodge in 2016.
The 54-year-old, who entered a not responsible plea Tuesday, was denied bail a second time on Wednesday, September 18 after a federal choose in Manhattan remanded him to await trial at a jail in Brooklyn. If convicted, Diddy faces a minimal sentence of 15 years in jail, and a most of life behind bars.
Read on to seek out out with celebs have stated in regards to the embattled Bad Boy rapper and his wild events amid the stunning allegations.
Lance Bass
During a latest episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, Bass admitted that he “never liked” Diddy, claiming he as soon as “overheard” the music mogul inform his then-bandmate Justin Timberlake to “drop” *NSYNC and “go solo.”
“I never had time to go to a Diddy party. I forgot he had opened up on our last tour until all this came about. It’s kind of horrible,” Lance stated of the allegations and fees in opposition to Diddy, who was the opening act for *NSYNC throughout their Celebrity Tour again in 2002.
“I never kind of liked him,” he continued. “The very last show [on the tour] … in Orlando, I overheard him talking to Justin and being like, ‘You need to drop these f-ers. You need to go solo. You need to drop [them].'”
“I was like, ‘I don’t like you anymore, Diddy,'” Lance stated to a shocked Andy Cohen. “At my own show? What the hell!”
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Kendra Wilkinson
Wilkinson was a visitor on the Kyle & Jackie O Show, the place she was requested about her time on the Playboy mansion, in addition to her expertise attending a few of Diddy’s events.
“I remember just going to like one or two, but again, like, I had a great time in my youth,” Wilkinson stated, referring to events held by Diddy. “I never saw anything really bad happening around me. Sex is sex, in my opinion. So, I’m not saying that something bad didn’t happen. I’m saying that, you know, nothing bad ever happened to me.”
Despite being pressed by the Australian radio hosts, Wilkinson, who as soon as dated Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, who was 60 years her senior, stated she by no means noticed something out of the odd that she would not usually see at a Playboy celebration.
“Look, you’re going to the Playboy Mansion. You know, there’s girls topless in the grotto. Don’t we already know that?” the Girls Next Door alum added.
In an almost 10-minute-long TikTookay video, the TV persona shared her ideas on Diddy after he was indicted, evaluating the rapper to convicted intercourse offender Harvey Weinstein. O’Donnell stated Diddy was her former neighbor and recalled their first and solely alleged encounter.
Rosie O’Donnell
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“Although I only met him once, he did invite me to his New Year’s Eve party, which I believe everybody was wearing white, but we didn’t know. We had on, like, sweatpants, me and my family and my kids,” she started, claiming that she and her household weren’t allowed into the celebration.
“They didn’t let us in,” she continued. “The doormen were, like, looking at us. I’m like, ‘No, no. He invited me yesterday. I live right there. My daughter saw him in the street and we talked’ … No, we couldn’t come in.”
The comic stated that Diddy known as her the following day to apologize.
“He called, and he felt so bad that he rented out the Regal Cinema for me and my family to see any movie we want, the entire day, in any theater, whenever we wanted, which was so unbelievably over the top and extraordinary,” O’Donnell stated. “I never spoke to him before or after that.”
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“I’m just kind of in shock,” she continued. “I know that there’s perhaps a naïveté to me in some way. But I think, how could a person live knowing that they had done that and then be a public person and continue to do it? Didn’t he feel, like, the footsteps of the law behind him at all times?”
“Or do you just get to be so big — like Harvey Weinstein did — that he thought, ‘Well I control Hollywood. I control the Oscars. I can sleep with any actress I want, whether they want to or not.'”
“How can you not consider yourself a rapist if you’re doing or participating in or filming or watching the rape?” she requested. “I don’t understand it. I really don’t.”
“It’s very disturbing. And then you start to think, how many people really knew that?” she continued, including that the allegations and fees are “very upsetting.”
“Sex trafficking? That’s serious, man. And then they found 1,000 bottles of baby oil. I’m gonna be thinking about that the rest of my life,” she stated, referencing the gadgets seized in the course of the raids in Diddy’s Beverly Hills and Miami properties, which included narcotics and greater than 1,000 bottles of child oil and lubricant. “It’s very unnerving and very disturbing.”
Damon Dash
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Damon Dash took to Instagram Live to handle resurfaced photographs of him with Jay-Z and Jennifer Lopez at an occasion hosted by the disgraced rapper following Diddy’s arrest.
“I didn’t go to those parties,” the 53-year-old stated. “I went to one in the Hamptons about 20 years ago with Aaliyah and that’s about it. But a lot of people were at those, you know what I mean?”
Dash dated Aaliyah from 2000 till her loss of life in 2001.
“Ain’t s–t happen in the Hamptons. That’s the day I met [Aaliyah],” he stated later within the video. “We hung out there and then we left and that’s what happened. That was 20 years ago, that was not in L.A. or Miami. I know they’re gonna play games with those pictures. It’s all good, I don’t really care.”
Dash went on to name the scenario Diddy is in “shocking.”
“People will sit there and watch people do things that could be immoral, but until they get caught, no one says anything,” he stated. “Whether it’s illegal or immoral for me I just break out, I don’t wait for people to get busted. I don’t wait for someone else to say that they’re doing something wrong.”
“If something is against my moral fabric, then I’m moving on,” he stated.
Ashton Kutcher
Ashton Kutcher labored with Diddy within the early 2000s throughout his time on MTV.
During a 2019 look on Hot Ones, he defined that their “really bizarre” relationship began when Combs instructed the previous Punk’d host that he was forbidden from pranking him.
When requested for his “favorite Diddy party story,” Kutcher shied away from answering. “I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” the That ’70s Show alum quipped earlier than a protracted pause.
“Can’t tell that one, either,” he stated with amusing. “I’m actually cycling through them. … Diddy party stories, man — that was some weird memory lane thing.”
Detailing their relationship throughout an look on The Late Late Show a 12 months prior, Kutcher stated he grew near Diddy earlier than assembly his now-wife, Mila Kunis.
“We were spending a lot of time together,” Kutcher, seated subsequent to Diddy, instructed host James Corden. “If you are a single man, there is probably no greater human being in the world to hangout with. By the way, this was 20 years ago. So we were having a lot of fun together.”
6. Khloé Kardashian
Khloé Kardashian revealed she attended Diddy’s notorious ‘Butt-Naked’ celebration.
Justin Bieber was additionally at this celebration.
The wild occasion, reportedly held in 2014, noticed Khloé catching a 5:30 a.m. flight, solely to seek out half the friends fully butt bare.
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Khloé Kardashian hinted on the nudity at Diddy’s events throughout an episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians in 2014.
In the clip, Khloé, instructed sister Kourtney Kardashian that she spent the weekend with “a bunch of [her] friends” — together with Diddy, Quincy Combs, Justin Bieber and French Montana — the latter of whom she was relationship on the time.
Khloé shared extra particulars in regards to the wild weekend together with her older sister and longtime buddy, Khadijah Haqq, who additionally attended the celebration.
“I haven’t been to bed yet. I got on a plane at 5:30 a.m.,” Khloé shared. “Well, this party, I think half the people were butt-naked.”
However, when Kourtney requested Haqq for extra particulars in regards to the celebration, Khloé instructed her to “stop talking.”
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Jenny Mollen
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Per week after Diddy’s arrest, Jenny Mollen took to social media to disclose that she was invited to one of many music mogul’s “freak offs” when she was simply 19.
“I was in San Diego and this guy came over and he’s like ‘My boss wants to meet you,'” Mollen recalled on her Instagram, noting that she was “not giving sex vibes” in denims and a T-shirt.
Mollen ultimately went over to fulfill Combs, who she joked had “the littlest hands [she has] ever felt.”
The actress claimed Combs invited her as much as his room for a celebration, however she finally declined.
“Guys, would I have been in a freak-off?” she requested her followers, earlier than bursting out laughing. “Would I have been captured in his room […] and would there be footage of me to this day in sort of a crazy exploitative freak off?”
Ice Cube
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Ice Cube made clear to followers that he had no affiliation with Diddy throughout a September 22 live performance in Las Vegas.
“Almost 40 years rocking the mic and I’m gonna tell you right now. Me and W.C. ain’t never been to a Diddy party,” the “It Was a Good Day” rapper instructed the gang in a video captured through TikTookay.
As the gang cheered, he added, “You ain’t gotta worry about us on those mother f–king tapes.”
Ellen DeGeneres
While Ellen DeGeneres interviewed Diddy on her daytime speak present a handful of instances over time, in 2018, she revealed that the pair additionally partied collectively occasionally.
After arriving late to a taping of her eponymous present, the comic requested if the rapper was additionally going to be tardy to an upcoming celebration she was throwing.
“Yes, I am — no,” the Diddy admitted. “You know I have to arrive fashionably late.”
However, DeGeneres begged Diddy to not get there “too late” including, “‘Cause, you know, once you get there the party really starts.”
“I got you. I promise you I’m not gonna let you down on this big one, for real,” Diddy instructed DeGeneres.
Usher
Usher, who lived along with his then-mentor in New York within the ’90s when he was only a teen, spoke to Rolling Stone in 2004 about what he skilled throughout his time residing with Diddy, telling the outlet, there “was always girls around.”
“You’d open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy. You never knew what was going to happen,” he shared on the time.
Reflecting on his expertise over a decade later, Usher admitted throughout an interview with Howard Stern that there have been “very curious” issues occurring at Diddy’s dwelling.
“I got a chance to see some things. I went there to see the lifestyle, and I saw it. I don’t know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at,” the “My Boo” singer recalled. “I had curiosity of my own. I just didn’t understand it. It was pretty wild. It was crazy.”
When requested if he would ever let his children stick with Diddy, Usher replied, “Hell, no!”
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50 Cent
50 Cent has been making jabs at Diddy for years, so when information of his arrest hit, it was no shock that the “In Da Club” rapper had one thing to say.
“I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy parties and doing s–t like that,” 50 Cent instructed the Hollywood Reporter in July 2024. “I’ve been staying out of that s–t for years. It’s just an uncomfortable energy connected to it.”
The rapper, whose actual title is Curtis Jackson, stated he met Diddy in 2001, and began getting dangerous vibes from the producer not lengthy after, after he “asked to take [him] shopping.”
“I thought that was the weirdest s–t in the world because that might be something that a man says to a woman,” he defined. “And I’m just like, ‘Naw, I’m not f–king with this weird energy or weird s–t.'”
50 Cent has since made a number of cracks in regards to the ongoing case, together with feedback in regards to the copious quantities of child oil discovered at Diddy’s dwelling, an alluded to a documentary he has within the works in regards to the sexual assault allegations.
Ray J
Ray J, who as soon as known as Diddy a mentor and buddy, instructed Chris Cuomo early this month that he was in “shock” over the music moguls’ arrest.
“We’ve never seen the stuff thats being said and the stuff that people are finding out,” he instructed the previous CNN anchor. “I’ve never been in rooms that people are talking about, and I never knew they existed.”
The “Sexy Can I” singer, who attended a number of of Combs’ events over time, defined that he at all times “looked up to” Diddy, calling the scenario “super unfortunate.”
“But it’s important to learn a lesson right now,” he continued, “and ensure the next generation understands how to move differently with transparency and integrity.”
Russell Brand
While recalling working collectively on their 2010 film, Get Him go the Greeokay, Russell Brand claimed Diddy took him on an “enforced holiday.”
“Diddy is new to me, right?” Brand stated in a resurfaced interview with BlackTree TV from May 2010. “He looked after me, he took me on an enforced holiday to Vegas.”
The British actor continued, “He’s a very intense man because — I think he comes from nothing, and now he’s very, very powerful. People that do stuff like that, they’re intense.”
“Now, I like him, he’s very influential,” Brand defined, including that Combs is tough to say no to.
“Say that you don’t want to do something and Diddy does want you to do it, it’s really hard to not do that thing … you still do it because you think, ‘Ahh, don’t upset him.’ He’s an influential person,” the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star added.
Brand additionally stated that he anxious in regards to the strain of being “very friendly” with Diddy.
“He may ask you for loads of favors and you can’t say no to him. That’s my worry … pressure,” he added. “I don’t want to be nobody’s bitch, I work too hard in life, not even Diddy’s bitch.”
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Katt Williams
Katt Williams eerily predicted Diddy’s downfall throughout an look on Club Shay Shay podcast in January — two months after the Cassie levied her bombshell lawsuit in opposition to the rapper.
“All of these big-d–k deviants is all catching hell in 2024,” Williams stated. “It’s up for all of them. It don’t matter if it’s Diddy or whoever you is, [pastor] T.D. Jakes, any of them.”
Williams additionally claimed he was invited to a number of of Diddy’s notorious events over time however at all times declined.
He repeated, “You got to tell him no! I did. See, I got the receipts for everything I’m telling you, that’s why I can say them so freely.”
LeBron James
In a resurfaced Instagram Live video between LeBron James and Diddy, the Los Angeles Lakers star boasted in regards to the rapper’s legendary events.
“Hey, everybody know, ain’t no party like a Diddy party,” James instructed Combs within the resurfaced video, which was filmed 4 years earlier than the embattled mogul’s arrest.
“Yeah that’s what’s up!” Diddy replied with a smile.
Pink
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After Diddy’s arrest, rumors started circulating on social media that Pink had wiped her X (previously) account to take away any incriminating information that could possibly be linked to the rapper’s ongoing authorized troubles.
The “So What” singer took to her Instagram and Facebook accounts Thursday to to dispel the hypothesis that she just lately deleted her tweets.
“I don’t know why I became a headline this week, but I wiped my Twitter account on February 6!!!” she wrote. “There is no truth to the rumors spread this week, and while I’ve met people in passing, I’m not associated with any of the people mentioned.”
To additional her declare, the pop star posted a screenshot of her remaining tweet on her X account earlier than she pressed the delete button. “This account will self destruct in two minutes,” she wrote on Feb. 6. “Do it!!!!!!”