which personalities would be involved in the scandal?

The P. Diddy affair continues to be talked about. The American rapper, whose real name is Sean Combs, but also known by the nicknames Puff Daddy, Puffy or Diddy, incarcerated since September 16, is the subject of a federal investigation for – among other things – sex trafficking, forced prostitution and sequestration. He will be tried next May. More than a hundred women accuse him of physical and sexual assault. If this legal scandal is already on everyone’s lips, it could well take on a whole new dimension.

Because the indictment of the hip-hop star shakes the entire showbiz. Other heads could roll very soon, warned the lawyer for the victims of the powerful American rapper and producer, Tony Buzbee. “We’re going to be releasing more names than Combs soon and there are a lot of them. […] Influential people will be exposed and horrible secrets will be revealed”he said at a press conference in Houston in early October.

Between the 1990s and 2000s, Sean Combs was known for his music, but also for the legendary white parties he organized at his home. All the influential personalities from the world of music, cinema, television… even the political sphere responded to the invitation. But P. Diddy’s legal scandal reveals the existence of other evenings: «Freak Offs». In the complaint filed by his ex-partner, Cassie, the R&B singer says that the rapper forced women to participate in elaborate sexual performances in the presence of male or female prostitutes. All under the influence of drugs. Most often, Diddy «se masturbait» et “recorded” the scenes, relates the indictment from the Manhattan federal prosecutor’s office.

Prince William, Beyoncé, DiCaprio…

Since these revelations, the photos of its social parties have been scrutinized and its participants singled out, suspected of having taken part in the «Freak Offs»as witnesses or culprits. In archive photos, we find for example the actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a glass of champagne in hand, sitting on a bed next to Puff Daddy in 1998. But also the singer and ex-girlfriend of P. Diddy Jennifer Lopez in 2000, reality TV stars Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian in 2006. Actor Ashton Kutcher was also photographed hanging on a swing above the luxury villa’s swimming pool in 2009.

The names of Princes William and Harry also came up. For years the brothers of the British royal family have in fact been invited to the famous Sean Combs evenings, without, however, having ever participated. “Diddy made a point of inviting them every time. All these invitations were wisely declined, then after William and Kate’s engagement, Diddy understood that it was better to stop inviting them.American journalist Christopher Andersen recently told FoxNews.

The couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z, long-time friends of P. Diddy, were also singled out during the American show Piers Morgan Uncensored. On October 2, its presenter, Piers Morgan, received the singer Jaguar Wright. The latter introduced Sean Combs as “a monster” et “a victim-making machine”. And according to her, the couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z would have committed acts “similar[s] to P. Diddy». Jaguar Wright also compared Jay-Z to sex convicts such as Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. The couple’s lawyers quickly reacted to deny these accusations and obtained the deletion of Jaguar Wright’s comments in the interview. Presenter Piers Morgan ended up publicly apologizing. This immediate denial from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s lawyers reflects their fear, as well as those of other world-famous personalities, of being associated with the scandal.

Personalities victims of Diddy?

Other archival photos have caused concern among Internet users, such as a video posted on Justin Bieber’s YouTube channel in 2010, titled “Justin Bieber’s Forty-Eight Hours with Diddy!!”. At the time, the Canadian pop singer was only 15 years old and was enjoying great musical success, particularly since the release of his hit Baby. In the images, we see Sean Combs offering a luxury car to Justin Bieber and promising to provide him with a living “the best moments of his life”. “We can’t really reveal what we do, but it’s everything a 15-year-old dreams of.”describes P. Diddy, then aged 41, before adding: “We are going to go completely crazy”.

Sources close to Justin Bieber, now 30, told the Daily Mail that he “should never have been allowed to party with Diddy or anyone else when he was a teenager”. According to this same source, “he was thrown into the den by his mother Pattie Mallette and his largely absent father Jeremy Bieber”. In 2011, the interpreter of One Time had also declared in an interview with Jimmy Kimmel: “I think we became friends in a weird way.”.

Another star would have been a victim of Diddy’s sexual failings: Usher. The latter met Sean Combs when he was still a minor so that he could help him get started in music. Diddy produces many of Usher’s tracks with whom he collaborates closely. In 2004, Usher spoke about their cohabitation in an interview with Rolling Stone : “There were always girls at his house. We opened a door and found [des gens en plein ébat sexuel]or on an orgy with several people”.

And then, radio silence. The interpreter of Yeah! finally came back on his comments in 2016 by asserting, at Howard Stern’s microphone on the radio, that there was no “not really” d’«orgies non-stop» at the rapper’s house and adds that living with him was still “pretty crazy”. “It was crazy. Very curious things were happening and I didn’t necessarily understand them”he continued.

For the moment, no personality has yet spoken publicly against P. Diddy. The lawyer for the rapper’s victims, Tony Buzbee, assured on October 8, while maintaining suspense, that world-famous individuals would try to “distance themselves” with the rapper “cleaning up their social media, deleting posts and photos”.