These celebs sounded the alarm on Diddy's alleged crimes years or even decades ago. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re looking at celebrities who spoke out against Sean Combs, aka P. Diddy, before his 2024 arrest and indictment.
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00:00There are so many witnesses. There are so many victims.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo. And today, we're looking at celebrities who spoke out against Sean Combs,
00:09aka P. Diddy, before his 2024 arrest and indictment.
00:13We're just starting to scratch the surface of what this case,
00:17who this case is going to touch and involve.
00:22Jaguar Wright.
00:23Congratulations, young Miami. Run as fast as Cassie did.
00:28Neo-soul singer Jaguar Wright lacks no boldness in the claims that she's made against Sean
00:33Diddy Combs. Most tamely, she alleges that he's abused and assaulted multiple
00:38associates in the music industry.
00:39Uptown Records started with five people. Andre Harrell. I'll be sure.
00:49But escalating from those potential atrocities,
00:52Wright made declarations that the rapper has been involved in nothing less than foul play.
00:56Wright has noted that prominent members of Uptown Records, now all deceased,
01:00might somehow be connected to Combs and his purported misconduct.
01:04Andre Harrell is dead. The only two left are Puffy and Al, and Al almost died.
01:13Though the validity of Jaguar Wright's statements have yet to be fully investigated,
01:18this will no doubt be a loud voice in the conversation surrounding the Diddy scandal.
01:22As of this video's publication, Diddy has yet to address Wright's accusations officially.
01:27Mark Curry.
01:33Being most easily recognized for collaborating with P. Diddy on the single Bad Boy for Life,
01:38it's not surprising that Curry may have some insider knowledge about his alleged misdoings.
01:42In December of 2023, about one month after Diddy's assault lawsuits began filing in,
01:48Curry spoke candidly in an interview about a myriad of the hip-hop mogul's purported crimes.
01:53And they'd be like, we having a party tonight, but this ain't your kind of party. You'd be like,
01:56yeah, I ain't going. I don't wanna go.
01:59He described how, when out clubbing with Diddy, certain bottles of liquor were not to be touched
02:04by anyone but the women in their company, as they were presumably filled with narcotics.
02:08So when you get up, they'd be like, don't touch them bottles right there,
02:12and only drink them bottles right there. So we already knew what the drill was. You just don't
02:16mess with them bottles, right?
02:18Hearing these claims come so matter-of-factly from Curry so early on in Diddy's legal troubles
02:23brings a frightening new level of validity to all of the claims made against him.
02:27Orlando Brown.
02:29I got in my Diddy mode. I'm sorry. I started licking my lip. You see him? You know what I mean?
02:32Yo, Diddy, you gave me the Ooshkosh Gooshmosh.
02:34This actor and rapper has had his own troubles with the law, but nevertheless, Brown had come
02:39out and discussed Diddy on multiple occasions, albeit more cryptically than some of these other
02:44claimants. In an interview with Cam Capone News in 2022, Brown snapped into a strange,
02:50gibberish rant seemingly to Diddy, who was not in the room, nor was he being discussed.
02:59You know what I'm talking about, Diddy?
03:00Looking back on this clip, there was clearly something unusual about the two rappers'
03:04relationship. In another conversation, Brown was asked if it was possible for
03:08someone to be successful in show business without engaging in drugs.
03:12He said, absolutely, with an exception.
03:15Bro, the requirement is, you gotta say no to Diddy.
03:18Kanye West.
03:20In retrospect, we should have read between the lines whenever somebody described a puffy party.
03:24In a 2014 episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians,
03:27Khloe recalled attending a Diddy party where everyone was, quote,
03:31butt-naked.
03:32Stop talking.
03:33Have you met Khloe's new crew of friends?
03:36And all I said was, yes. And then I stopped talking.
03:40All I said was, yes.
03:42Khloe's former brother-in-law, Kanye West, also made comments concerning Diddy that
03:46read differently now. In 2022, West called Sean Combs a, quote,
03:51fed, claiming he had sold people out to spare himself from jail time.
03:54That's why you gotta come at me, because part of the deal for you to be a do-all-day
03:59and get out of jail is that you promise that you gonna go pull my co-car.
04:04Since West is infamous for making wild, often unfounded accusations,
04:08these statements initially blended in with his other tirades.
04:11Even now, it's hard to say if West's allegations were authentic.
04:15Given Combs' current legal issues, though, West's words feel like a warning,
04:19whether or not he truly had any inside information.
04:22I don't know if it's a party. I'm saying that metaphorically, you know what I'm saying?
04:25But you've heard about the parties that everyone is talking about.
04:27But you've never got invited to them.
04:29I don't know a party. I don't even know what the party. That's how far out of it I am.
04:33Usher
04:33When he was just getting his foot in the music industry's door,
04:36a 13-year-old Usher spent a year living with Combs.
04:39Usher opened up about this experience in a 2016 interview with Howard Stern.
04:44Does he have you doing any chores? Are you doing dishes at all? I mean,
04:47to keep you humble somewhat? Or are you just like,
04:49can you stay up till four in the morning with them and party?
04:51I mean, I could. I actually stayed up longer than them.
04:54Although he made it sound like a blast,
04:56Usher hinted at something more disturbing beneath the surface.
04:59Usher said that he didn't, quote,
05:01understand what he was even looking at, and, quote,
05:03very curious things were taking place.
05:06I went there to see the lifestyle.
05:07Right.
05:08And I saw it. And it was, and it was,
05:10but I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at.
05:13Perhaps most telling,
05:15Usher made it clear that he wouldn't want his children attending,
05:18quote,
05:18puffy camp like their father.
05:20Regardless, Usher's protege, Justin Bieber, would spend 48 hours with Combs.
05:24It may just be speculation,
05:26but a fake phone number that Bieber later gave Combs now reads like a cry for help.
05:30I mean, you try to get in contact with me, you know,
05:32through all my, you know, business, you know, partners and whatnot.
05:35But you never really got my number, so.
05:38Right, okay.
05:39My number?
05:39Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:40I'm gonna tell you my number.
05:41Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:42It's 555.
05:43Yes, okay.
05:445555.
05:45Mace.
05:46In addition to breaking out as Diddy's hype man in the 90s,
05:49Mason Durrell Betha, or Mace, released three studio albums through Bad Boy Records.
05:54Mace eventually had a falling out with Combs and his record label.
05:58I never got paid what I was worth, and I never got the respect I was worth.
06:02So the disdain that I got for Puff is more like, you trying to keep me here.
06:08Leading up to his former collaborator's arrest,
06:11Mace claimed Combs cheated him with a $20,000 publishing deal
06:15and had been withholding royalties for decades.
06:18In a 2022 interview, Combs asserted that Mace owed him $3 million.
06:23That's facts.
06:24I got the receipt.
06:25Second album, you gave him money to do a second album, never deliver it.
06:28Did the album, never deliver it.
06:29You know what I'm saying?
06:30And I'm not gonna go back and forth with Mace.
06:31You know what I'm saying?
06:32I'm not going back and forth with nobody.
06:34Combs nevertheless returned the publishing rights to Mace
06:37and several other Bad Boy artists the following year.
06:40Although Mace was among the first to call Combs out over royalties, he wouldn't be the last.
06:44In 2024, former bandmate Don Richard sued Combs,
06:48citing, among other things, roughly $5 million in unpaid earnings.
06:53Don had the choice to file the case as a Jane Doe.
06:56And she chose not to do that.
06:58After giving it a fair amount of thought, she wants accountability.
07:01She wants justice.
07:02Kat Williams.
07:03I sure hope I have a club shay-shay after this year.
07:07It's gonna be in a dimension it's never been.
07:10Yeah, it's gonna be.
07:11The greatest thing floating in 2020.
07:13I might be out of business.
07:14Lock the words.
07:14No way.
07:16In a whole different realm of business.
07:18Comedian Kat Williams is no stranger to run-ins with the law and reported abusive behavior.
07:23As such, it's understandable why some would call Williams' credibility into question.
07:27In January 2024, though, Williams made several remarks about Combs that
07:32only became more relevant in the months to come.
07:34On Shannon Sharp's Club Shay-Shay podcast,
07:37Williams touched upon the now-notorious ditty parties, advising people to just say no.
07:42And you gotta tell him no.
07:44You've got to tell him no.
07:46I did.
07:48I did.
07:48See, I got the receipts for everything I'm telling you.
07:50That's why I can say them so freely.
07:52Kat, I need a note.
07:53While his reasons were somewhat vague,
07:55Williams was especially concerned about protecting a certain area of his body.
07:59Williams didn't elaborate further,
08:01although he took another shot at Combs later in the interview.
08:04I know how blessed I am.
08:06If I look at it, I got it.
08:08That's how Diddy be feeling.
08:10Come on, man.
08:12I did.
08:14The recent allegations regarding Combs' quote,
08:17freak-out parties and alleged abuse have painted Williams' words in a whole new light.
08:22Aubrey O'Day
08:23What do Donald Trump and Diddy have in common?
08:25Well, arguably, quite a few things.
08:27But singer-slash-reality star Aubrey O'Day is one of them.
08:31Once mentored by Combs, O'Day later appeared on the fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice.
08:35I am a very strict and focused businesswoman because working for Diddy for six years
08:41trained me to have to be perfect.
08:44Working for Diddy?
08:45Absolutely.
08:45I love Diddy.
08:46When O'Day brought up her association with Diddy,
08:48Trump was quick to shower him with praise.
08:51O'Day tiptoed around her former boss,
08:53unwilling to say if he was a quote,
08:54good guy,
08:55as Trump described him.
08:57I don't want to answer that question.
08:58Oh, well, I think he's a good guy.
08:59I'm going to stick up for him.
09:02During a 2019 interview with Variety,
09:04O'Day went into greater detail.
09:06Discussing her time on the Diddy-produced Making the Band,
09:09O'Day said quote,
09:10We were scared to death with what would happen with Puff each day.
09:13I experienced everything from race remarks to sexism and a lot of it was scary.
09:18Listening to Gene Deal, his bodyguard.
09:20Yeah, I talked to him yesterday.
09:22Really?
09:22Yeah.
09:23Because he had a really astonishing quote.
09:26You should hear the one he's not saying.
09:27It's even crazier.
09:28Right.
09:29So he's got stuff in the tuck that he hasn't put out there?
09:33Everybody does.
09:34Wendy Williams.
09:35I have broken up with somebody.
09:37Who?
09:38I don't want to, I don't want to say.
09:39Do we know the person?
09:40Maybe.
09:41Okay.
09:41After being fired from Hot 97 in 1998, Wendy Williams accused Combs of playing a role.
09:47In 2004, Williams wrote that she would quote,
09:50Never forget the hell Combs put her through.
09:52Even so, Williams said that she didn't hate Combs.
09:55On a 2015 episode of her show,
09:57Williams commented on the allegations that Cassie Ventura was hiding from Combs.
10:01This is a beautiful dress, by the way, that she has on.
10:04And Puffy, you look great for all the hard partying.
10:09Williams painted Combs as a quote,
10:11Mogul you can't escape.
10:12The same year, Williams asked Jennifer Lopez if she would ever get back together with Combs.
10:17Lopez's mother, Guadalupe Rodriguez,
10:19basically answered for her daughter with a look that said everything.
10:23Although they reconciled in 2017,
10:25viewers have been waiting on pins and needles to hear Williams'
10:28thoughts about Combs in the wake of his arrest.
10:31You are exhausting me.
10:32Let me tell you something.
10:33This week has been hella exhausting.
10:37Curtis James Jackson III,
10:38a.k.a. 50 Cent,
10:40is another big name who's had a longstanding feud with Combs.
10:43It all started with 50 Cent's 2006 diss track,
10:46The Bomb,
10:47which alleged that Combs was connected to the murder of Biggie Smalls.
10:53There's still little concrete evidence backing up that conspiracy theory.
10:57In October 2023, though,
10:5950 Cent elaborated on his beef with Diddy,
11:02describing his parties as quote,
11:03Uncomfortable.
11:05That's not really beef, though.
11:06That's just competitive.
11:07Competitiveness.
11:08All right, so you and Diddy, you and Puff Cool?
11:10No, I don't really rock with them.
11:12During his final app tour,
11:1450 Cent said Diddy would quote,
11:15Hug you from the front and the back at the same time.
11:1850 Cent has been even more vocal about Combs following the raid on his homes.
11:22It's also been reported that 50 Cent sold a docuseries to Netflix entitled,
11:26Diddy Do It?
11:33Tupac Shakur.
11:34Speaking of conspiracies,
11:3650 Cent has also claimed that Combs got Tupac killed.
11:39Again, there isn't much backing this up,
11:41although Tupac was also skeptical of Combs.
11:44If these rumors or allegations are true,
11:47it would make sense he would be able to get away from it,
11:49or get away with it for so long because people would be afraid.
11:52Speaking with Vibe magazine in 1995,
11:55Shakur was asked if he thought Combs was connected to his shooting the previous year.
11:59Shakur did not hold back,
12:00saying quote,
12:01I believe so.
12:02Adding that quote,
12:03It's between me and him,
12:05and only he knows.
12:06I have proof, things that I can say that will back up my claim,
12:09but this is not for the world to know about.
12:11About a year later, Shakur was involved in another shooting, this one proving fatal.
12:16Dwayne Keefe D. Davis, who was arrested for Tupac's murder in 2023,
12:20once said that Combs offered $1 million to carry out Shakur's assassination.
12:25I think that was a bad move, dude, you know what I'm saying?
12:28It took me heat.
12:29Yeah, but show some love, brother, love.
12:31Whether or not Combs was involved,
12:33Shakur's words paint the portrait of a violent man.
12:36Rodney Lilrod Jones
12:38While Combs has faced numerous accusations throughout the years,
12:41Rodney Lilrod Jones was among the first to take serious legal action,
12:45contributing to the mogul's current circumstances.
12:47Jones was a producer on Combs' The Love album Off the Grid.
12:51According to Jones, though, he quote,
12:53endured many things that went far beyond his role as a producer.
12:56Claims made by Jones include hidden cameras in the rap mogul's home,
13:00saying quote,
13:00Mr. Combs allegedly threatened to eat Mr. Jones' face in order to get what he wants.
13:05Jones alleged that Combs repeatedly groped him and made him participate in unwanted sexual
13:10activities. This included having to work in the bathroom as Combs showered. What's more,
13:15Jones claimed that he woke up naked in bed with Combs and two sex workers after being drugged.
13:20His lawsuit also implicates Combs' son Justin and chief of staff Christina Coram,
13:24the latter of whom was accused of grooming.
13:27Basically calls her the Ghislaine Maxwell to Sean Combs' Jeffrey Epstein.
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13:48Cassie Ventura, this model-turned-singer was in a relationship with Combs from 2007 to 2018.
13:54There had been signs of trouble in paradise. In 2015, Ventura shared an image of a sleeping baby,
14:00posting, quote,
14:01"...how I sleep, knowing that I'm single and nobody cheating on me."
14:04The next year, it was reported that the two were seen arguing in Beverly Hills.
14:08Five years after their final breakup, Ventura filed a lawsuit against Combs,
14:12accusing him of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and sex trafficking.
14:16Although Combs denied these claims, the lawsuit would be settled out of court.
14:20This wasn't the end, as footage from 2016 surfaced.
14:24"...appears to corroborate Cassie's claims identically.
14:28Really, Jake, the lawsuit lines up with exactly what we are seeing."
14:32Combs issued an apology, while many have supported Ventura for marking the beginning of his downfall.
14:37What other celebrity accounts have you looking at Diddy differently? Let us know in the comments.
14:42I have my own opinion, but I wouldn't slander their name like they did mine.