Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ $100 million default judgement in sex assault lawsuit has been set aside. Javier Rojas/Zuma Press Wire/TNS
Ever since rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested on Sept. 16, the Internet has begun to revisit old footage and recordings of all kinds that span across Combs’ career, finding red flags in Diddy’s behavior that we as a society initially missed.
Combs, who was taken into custody last month and indicted for charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, and transportation for purposes of prostitution, has amassed heavy attention from the public as of recent due to his involvement with these alleged crimes.
Some recorded moments of Combs that have been released over the course of his career are starting to resurface, raising many eyebrows amidst all of the allegations surrounding the New York rapper. Some of those instances include:
- “Put The Kids Away”
A clip from one of Combs’ now-infamous “white parties” resurfaced where Combs urges a crowd of people before him to “put the kids away” within the next hour, suggesting that the party was about to get very inappropriate.
Sure, the responsible thing to do as an adult would be to protect children from seeing anything their young eyes are not yet mature enough to see. However, given the current circumstances and accusations, this clip simply does not make Combs look any less guilty.
- Stories from Diddy parties are always kept under wraps
In 2019, Ashton Kutcher did an interview on the famous YouTube talk show “Hot Ones,” in which he was asked about these notorious bashes.
“Wow, okay, I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” Kutcher said after Sean Evans, the host of Hot Ones, inquired about Kutcher’s experience at the rapper’s parties. He soon thereafter changed the subject and told a story that only briefly recounted a quick moment from one of the parties.
We don’t seem to know much about what goes on at these parties, and the attitude surrounding them and those who attend them seems to be pretty hushed and not to be spoken about publicly. It always seems as though there’s some secret being kept under wraps.
- Combs reveals his strange criteria for a perfect party
A lost interview Combs conducted on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” in 2002 has resurfaced among the discourse surrounding this highly publicized case of Combs listing what he believes to be the necessities for a memorable party.
“Women,” Combs states as his first piece of criteria. “Beautiful women.” “Alcohol” and “locks on the doors” soon follow as the next two essentials.
“If you don’t have what they need, they’re going to leave,” Combs states in the interview. “You got to keep ‘em there. Got to put locks on the doors.”
“It’s a little kinky,” Combs laughs after it becomes obvious O’Brien is slightly uncomfortable.
Right after, the rapper states that another must-have for his parties is a lot of heat, because apparently the heat combined with the alcohol keeps all of the attendees of his parties “a little more comfortable and loose.”
- “Adopting” a child
Recently, a clip from a 2020 Instagram livestream hosted by Combs shows the rapper with a group of grown men all behind a young teenage girl by the name of Ava Baroni, who Combs claims is the “white child” he “adopted.”
Combs puts the girl on display in front of the camera and evidently makes her refer to herself as “Ava Combs,” but also instructs her to reveal her true last name.
The young girl refers to him as “Papa Combs,” and recounts a story where she was on “the streets” and Combs “decided to pick (her) up and said to come inside and play with his kids.”
Combs even suggests that what he is saying on the livestream in reference to Baroni may sound inappropriate. “That’s a little bit, like, borderline suspect,” Combs states, to which the room erupts in laughter. “I adopted you like Madonna adopted kids,” Comb stated later in the stream in an attempt to provide context to Baroni’s story about how he “adopted” her.
It has come out since the resurfacing of this clip that Combs never formally adopted Baroni.
It’s true what they say about hindsight being 20/20. Though nobody could have predicted the accusations Combs is facing currently, knowing what we know now, it is safe to say that these instances, along with others, do not exactly paint him in a very innocent light.