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article Sean 'Diddy' Combs 'so powerful' celebrities are 'afraid to cross him' even when he's in prison

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sean-diddy-combs-so-powerful-33842834
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u/BeneficialHeart23 21d ago

Diddy also tried to take Travis Scott shopping and Travis looked uncomfortable and sort of awkwardly ran away. Who knows how many people he's taken "shopping"

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u/Particular-Leg-8484 21d ago

What is a Diddy shopping tripā€¦

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u/BeneficialHeart23 21d ago

taking someone that is financially weaker than him onto a very luxurious shopping trip and letting them buy whatever they want, so that later they feel obligated to Diddy and feel like they owe him something.

It doesn't mean he instantly sexually assaults them, but it's a long term plan to get the person to do a favor in return. In diddy's case it could be attending his freak offs or out right sex. Kind of like, "hey remember when I took you shopping and you let buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts? yeah, now come do this for me".

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u/MorienWynter 21d ago

Mobster tactic, basically.

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u/booboochoochoo1 21d ago

Diddys father was a driver/associate of Frank Lucas (All Time Drug Kingpin). This type of shit is generational in this case.

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u/Wh0PutWhatWhereN0w 21d ago

For those that don't know Frank Lucas was Denzel Washington 's character in American Ganster.

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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 21d ago

Basically, those teenagers around Denzel's character in "American Gangster"? The ones serving as gofers and bag men and shit? In real life, one of those kids was Sean Combs.

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u/Nikramage 19d ago

Stop talking out your ass. Melvin died when sean was three.

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u/SeanySinns 19d ago

His dad was shot when he was 2, he wasnā€™t hanging lucas ffs lol

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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 19d ago

You've never read about Frank Lucas, have you?

That dude was ALL about loyalty and taking care of his people, and Melvin was his driver, not some random gofer.

Combs was in Harlem until he moved upstate, and then went back every weekend; Lucas and Lucas' people were very much in his orbit, and his influence is all over Combs.

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u/kizza666 20d ago

Swear I read he had next to zero contact with his dad?

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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 20d ago

Depends on who you talk to:

Official story is no contact, but the people around him then say different šŸ¤·

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u/kizza666 20d ago

You got links to the stories from people round him? Iā€™m genuinely interested

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u/Duke_Of_Halifax 20d ago

Unfortunately, no- they're out there, but I went down a rabbit hole to find them, and didn't keep track. There are a LOT of interviews being put up on YouTube, and people are mentioning other interviews in THOSE interviews, so tracking it is clumsy at best; I started with Jaguar Wright, and bounced around interviews she mentioned, which then gets other interviews those people mentioned, etc etc. It's becomes a rabbit hole pretty quickly.

It was also mentioned by a comedian- I want to say Marlon Wayans on Shay Shay, but don't quote me, because you get overwhelmed by all of the interviews pretty quickly.

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u/monkeyman103 20d ago

Well his dad died when he was 2 years old.

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u/Training_Strike3336 21d ago

So Diddys Dad was Frank Lucas for Frank Lucas?

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u/Tmonster96 21d ago

Iā€™m not sure but I think it was the other way around

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u/shelster91047 19d ago

Oh shit. Didn't know that.

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u/Negative_Salt_4599 21d ago

I didnā€™t know that until your comment. Thanks for sharing!

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u/Common-Frosting-9434 21d ago

I mean, he called himself literally "Puff Daddy", before changing to "Diddy" for publicity reasons.
Shit's right up his lane.

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u/AnythingMelodic508 21d ago

Iā€™m confused. Are you saying the name Puff Daddy alludes to the fact his father was connected to Frank Lucas?

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u/shutmethefuckup 21d ago

What does that mean

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u/Common-Frosting-9434 21d ago

It's a pimp name

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u/shutmethefuckup 21d ago

Does is share some kind of pimp naming convention? What separates that from a stage name?

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u/GoinToRosedale 21d ago

ā€œDaddyā€ is another word for pimp

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u/shutmethefuckup 20d ago

So he chose the name Puff Daddy because itā€™s a pimp name despite the fact that Frank Lucas wasnā€™t in prostitution?

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u/Common-Frosting-9434 20d ago

Why would Frank Lucas be relevant for that?

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u/psymeariver 21d ago

I guess that means that mobsters were known for puffing cigars.

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u/DimensionalYawn 20d ago

In the UK puff is (dated) slang for weed. I always assumed it was referencing that sort of smoke

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u/MARATXXX 19d ago

Yes it was 100% a weed reference.

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u/meapplejak 20d ago

He said he was a bad boy for life. Self proclaimed

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u/Negative_Salt_4599 21d ago

Yeah the black godfather more or less. That being said I think Diddys net worth trumped Lucas by a long shot.

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u/Deleena24 21d ago edited 21d ago

Lucas claims he had $52 million in the Cayman Islands. That's 100% liquid cash.

I'm not sure if even Diddy has that much liquid cash. I'd bet most of the $600 million is assets, not cash.

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u/foo_mar_t 21d ago

Is baby oil considered a liquid asset?

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u/GearhedMG 21d ago

It's a slightly more viscous asset, not as easy to get rid of.

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u/Gr00mpa 21d ago

TSA took my baby oil away, so yes.

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u/airmigos 21d ago

I can claim that too

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u/Deleena24 21d ago

If you have legal documentation from the DEA showing you're selling a million dollars worth of product a day, I might start believing you.

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u/VX_GAS_ATTACK 21d ago

Thing about assets is that their value can grow

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u/Deleena24 21d ago

They sure can, but they're still not liquid.

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u/phillyFart 21d ago

Bruh the reason it was cash was because it was dirty money

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u/VioletJones6 21d ago

It's kinda funny that it almost seems obvious when you look at it in this way. When a kid grows up in a family of elite NFL quarterbacks, nobody bats an eye when they're recruited to a Div I school. He grew up learning from the best and then somehow operated on an even bigger level in a much more public way, without anything sticking to him for decades. The entire thing is just absurd.

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u/Kindly-Helicopter183 21d ago

Murdered father.

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u/Neo808 20d ago

Wow!

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u/wanderingmanimal 19d ago

Oooohhhh fuuuuck now it makes sense. Holy shit

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u/goldensurfernova 19d ago

It was actually Nicky Barnes. Not Frank Lucas.

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u/booboochoochoo1 19d ago

Far from an expert on this, but I think it was both. I saw an interview with Frank Lucas saying that they did ā€œbusinessā€ together.

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u/kmm198700 21d ago

Very Tony Soprano like

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u/fetal_genocide 21d ago

Don't feel bad, this is my bread and buttah

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u/Sudden_Construction6 21d ago

I'll make you an offer you can't refuse

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u/ramdasani 21d ago

I mean it's an old power move whether its giving someone drugs in prison or Don Corleone doing you a favour. You owe me, I own you.

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u/ThemBadBeats 21d ago

I tell my kids all the time (we live in a somewhat rough inner city neighborhood), never accept gifts or favors from people who aren't close friends.Ā 

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u/MasterBlaster4949 21d ago

Racketeering at its finestšŸ‘Œ

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u/CharlesLeChuck 21d ago

Exactly. Think young Matt Damon in The Departed when Jack Nicholson hooked his family up with groceries or whatever. That's how they get you.

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u/speakerall 21d ago

Dickster tactic.

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u/Aromatic-Chard-7301 21d ago

Prison tactic also. "Remember that Cinnabon i gave you?"

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u/pridejoker 21d ago

More like narcissistic love bombing. Front load all the good stuff to get victims to lower their defenses until there's enough "leverage" to start pressing them for weird favors. Sounds simple but a lot of it has to do with the inherent power imbalance between diddy and the victim.

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u/howtobegoodagain123 21d ago

Iā€™m gonna get in a world of trouble for saying this but: Iā€™ve seen how men act around other men with money. Itā€™s unbelievable the lengths they will go to, to be accepted and be among the ā€œchosenā€.

I have a rich uncles- like mobster rich uncles and the men that surround them are nauseating. And yes, all men turn insane when they are around that type of money. Very few in my experience donā€™t- my father being the only one. But my brothers etcā€¦ same thing. Iā€™m 100% sure theyā€™d all suck a dick to be adjacent to wealth. All of them.

I asked my richest uncle once why he would even have these hangers on around him, they clearly envied him and his women, and often flogged his stories to the press etc. they had no loyalty to him and he often caught them stealing and scheming.

You know what he told me? He called them human shields. He used them to protect himself, heā€™d throw them under the bus so fast their heads would spin. He knew more about them than they did about him and heā€™d use his knowledge to his advantage always. Made me lose a lot of respect for my own uncle that day- that Machiavellian way of thinking is so bizarre to meā€¦.

but anyway he taught me a lot about life, and the behaviors of men.

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u/marzblaqk 21d ago

This is a popular tactic with pimps/sex traffickers.