The videos of Diddy’s interactions with young Bieber resurfaced just hours after internet sleuths uncovered an interview Usher did with shock jock Howard Stern in 2016, in which he admitted he saw “very curious things” taking place at Diddy’s New York mansion when he was sent to live with him for a year at the age of just 14.
“I got a chance to see some things … I don’t know if I could indulge and even understand what I was looking at,” Usher said.
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy. There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it,” he said, laughing, adding that he felt like a little brother during the time he spent with the Bad Boy Records boss.
When Stern asked whether he would send his own kids to Puffy Flavor Camp, Usher exclaimed: “Hell no!”
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
- Combs was arrested at a New York hotel by Homeland Security agents on September 16.
- Prosecutors allege Combs participated in sex trafficking and “freak off” parties.
- Combs was denied bail and is on suicide watch as he awaits his sex trafficking trial in jail.
- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- A video of Combs viciously assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway was made public in May.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
Authorities are investigating whether Diddy may have been engaging in sex-trafficking, and have seized his phones and computers from his Los Angeles and Miami homes.
The raid Monday came almost one day to the month since Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones — a former producer and videographer for Diddy — filed an explosive lawsuit claiming the music mogul repeatedly sexually assaulted him from September 2022 to November 2023.
Jones accused Combs of groping his genitals and grooming him into having sex.
A former NYPD detective in the rap intelligence unit said he believes “someone is behind” these investigations, “someone who really wants to destroy his brand and take him down.”
“Someone’s giving [authorities] sensitive information. Someone’s cooperating, and it’s probably someone close to him,” said Derrick Parker, who was assigned to two of Diddy’s more infamous cases in New York in the 1990s and knew the rapper well.
“This looks, to me, like the tip of the iceberg.”
But an attorney representing Diddy has slammed the investigation as “nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”
The lawyer noted that Diddy has not been arrested or charged and has spoken to and cooperated with authorities.
The rapper’s travel has also not been restricted in any way, the lawyer added.
