1. Sean Combs independently released his fifth album, The Love Album: Off the Grid, in 2023.
93 Facts About Sean Combs
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One of the wealthiest musical artists in the world, Sean Combs topped Forbes annual hip-hop rich list in 2014 and 2017.
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Sean Combs's accolades include three Grammy Awards, three BET Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards.
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Sean Combs has worked as a producer for other media, including the reality television series Making the Band, and he starred in the films Made, Monster's Ball and Get Him to the Greek.
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Sean Combs served as brand ambassador for the liquor brand Ciroc from 2007 to 2023, and co-founded the television network Revolt in 2013.
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In 2008, Sean Combs received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first male rapper to be so honored.
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Sean Combs pleaded not guilty and was denied bail three times.
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Sean John Combs was born on November 4,1969, in Harlem, New York City.
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Sean Combs's father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the US Air Force; he was an associate of convicted New York drug lord Frank Lucas.
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At age 33, Melvin was shot dead while sitting in his car on Central Park West, when Sean Combs was two years old.
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Sean Combs has a sister, Keisha, and grew up in poverty.
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Sean Combs was raised Catholic and served as an altar boy.
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Sean Combs graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy, an all-boys Catholic school, in 1987.
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Sean Combs played football for the academy, and his team won a division title in 1986.
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Sean Combs said he was given the nickname "Puff" as a child, because he would "huff and puff" when he was angry.
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Sean Combs was a business major at Howard University, but left after his second year.
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Sean Combs became an intern at New York's Uptown Records in 1990.
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In 1991, Sean Combs promoted an AIDS fundraiser with Heavy D held at the City College of New York gymnasium, following a charity basketball game.
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Shortly after being fired from Uptown in 1993, Sean Combs established his own label Bad Boy Records, which entered a joint venture deal with Arista Records.
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Sean Combs signed more acts to Bad Boy, including Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, 112, Total, and Father MC.
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In 1996, under the name Puff Daddy, Sean Combs released his first commercial vocal work as a rapper.
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Sean Combs collaborated with Jimmy Page on the song "Come with Me" for the 1998 film Godzilla.
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Stoute was the manager for Nas, with whom Sean Combs had filmed a video earlier that year for the song "Hate Me Now".
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Sean Combs was concerned that the video, which featured a shot of Nas and Sean Combs being crucified, was blasphemous.
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Sean Combs appeared as a drug dealer in the film Made, and starred with Halle Berry, Heath Ledger, and Billy Bob Thornton in Monster's Ball.
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Sean Combs began working with a series of atypical artists.
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Sean Combs was an opening act for 'N Sync on their Spring 2002 Celebrity Tour, and he signed California-based pop girl group Dream to his record label.
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Sean Combs was a producer of the soundtrack album for the film Training Day.
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In June 2001, Sean Combs ended Bad Boy's distribution deal with Arista Records, gaining full control of the label, its catalogue, and its roster of artists.
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Sean Combs was executive producer of the reality TV show, Making the Band, which appeared on MTV from 2002 to 2009.
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In 2003, Sean Combs ran in the New York City Marathon, raising $2million for the educational system of the city of New York.
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In 2004, Sean Combs headed the campaign "Vote or Die" for the 2004 presidential election.
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Sean Combs said fans did not know how to address him, which led to confusion.
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Sean Combs starred in the 2005 film Carlito's Way: Rise to Power.
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Sean Combs played Walter Lee Younger in the 2004 Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun and the television adaptation that aired in February 2008.
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In 2005, Sean Combs sold half of his record company to the Warner Music Group.
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Sean Combs hosted the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards and was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2005 by Time magazine.
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In 2006, when Sean Combs refused to release rapper Mase from his contractual obligations with Bad Boy to allow him to join the group G-Unit, 50 Cent recorded a diss song, "Hip-Hop".
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Sean Combs released his first album in four years, Press Play, on October 17,2006, on the Bad Boy Records label.
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On September 18,2007, Sean Combs teamed up with 50 Cent and Jay-Z for the "Forbes I Get Money Billion Dollar Remix".
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In June 2008, Sean Combs's representative denied rumors of another name change.
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Sean Combs ventured into reality television in August 2008 with the premiere of his VH1 series I Want to Work for Diddy.
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Sean Combs created a rap supergroup in 2010 known as the Dream Team.
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Sean Combs made an appearance at comedian Chris Gethard's live show in January 2010 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City.
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In November 2012, Sean Combs appeared in an episode of the eighth season of the American sitcom It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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Sean Combs used his former stage name Puff Daddy for the album.
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On June 29,2015, Sean Combs released the single "Finna Get Loose", which featured vocals and production by Pharrell Williams.
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On May 20,2016, Sean Combs launched a tour of Bad Boy Records' biggest names to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the label.
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In 2019, Sean Combs announced on Twitter that Making the Band would return to MTV in 2020.
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Sean Combs executive-produced Nigerian singer Burna Boy's album, Twice as Tall, which was released on August 14,2020.
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Sean Combs topped the Forbes annual hip-hop rich list in 2014 and 2017.
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Sean Combs had not known the jackets were made with genuine fur, but as soon as he was alerted, he had production stopped.
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In early 2016, Sean Combs John introduced the brand's GIRLS collection.
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Sean Combs is the head of Sean Combs Enterprises, an umbrella company for his portfolio of businesses.
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Sean Combs is the designer of the Dallas Mavericks alternate jersey.
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In June 2023, after Ciroc was acquired by Diageo, they ended their partnership with Sean Combs for "refusing to acknowledge or honor his commitments".
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Sean Combs has a major equity stake in Revolt TV, a television network that has a film production branch.
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In February 2015, Sean Combs teamed up with actor Mark Wahlberg and businessman Ronald Burkle of Yucaipa Companies to purchase a majority holding in Aquahydrate, a calorie-free beverage for athletes.
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In 2019, Sean Combs became an investor in PlayVS, which provides an infrastructure for competitive gaming in US high schools.
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Sean Combs's first biological child, a son, Justin, was born in 1993 to fashion designer and stylist Misa Hylton.
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Sean Combs attended UCLA on a football scholarship and graduated in 2016.
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Sean Combs had an on-again, off-again relationship with Kimberly Porter, which lasted from 1994 to 2007.
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Five months before the birth of his twins, Sean Combs had a daughter, born to Sarah Chapman.
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Sean Combs took legal responsibility for her in October 2007.
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Sean Combs was in an 11-year relationship with Cassie Ventura from 2007 to 2018.
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Sean Combs's seventh child was born on October 15,2022, a daughter.
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Sean Combs owns a home in Alpine, New Jersey, which he purchased for $7million.
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Sean Combs founded Daddy's House Social Programs, an organization to help inner-city youth, in 1995.
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Sean Combs has donated computers and books to New York schools.
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In 2008, Sean Combs was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first male rapper to be so honored.
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In 2014, Sean Combs received an honorary doctorate in Humanities from Howard University, where he gave the commencement speech for its 146th commencement ceremony.
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Sean Combs held a series of parties known as White Parties between 1998 and 2009.
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In 1997, Sean Combs was sued for landlord negligence by Inge Bongo; Sean Combs denied the charges.
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Originally charged with assault for the event, Sean Combs pleaded guilty on September 8,1999, to a charge of harassment, and was sentenced to spend one day in an anger management class.
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Sean Combs was charged with four weapons-related crimes and with bribing his driver, Wardel Fenderson, to claim ownership of his gun.
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In 2001, Sean Combs was arrested for driving with a suspended license in Florida.
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Also in 2003, Kirk Burrowes sued Sean Combs, claiming that Sean Combs had forced him to give up his shares in Bad Boy Records through threats of violence.
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In 2005, an assault charge against Sean Combs filed by Michigan television host Rogelio Mills was resolved in Sean Combs's favor.
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Sean Combs settled the lawsuit on undisclosed terms in March 2008.
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In 2015, Sean Combs was arrested for aggravated assault after an altercation with his son's football coach at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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In 2023, Sean Combs filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against Diageo, claiming that the spirits company deliberately "knee-capped" the marketing and sales of his Ciroc vodka and DeLeon tequila labels.
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In January 2024, Sean Combs voluntarily withdrew the lawsuit with prejudice, and severed the business relationship.
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The lawsuit suggested that Sean Combs was responsible for blowing up Ventura's then-boyfriend Kid Cudi's car.
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On May 17,2024, CNN released surveillance footage of Sean Combs physically assaulting Ventura at the InterContinental hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, on March 5,2016.
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On May 19,2024, Sean Combs issued a video apology on Instagram and Facebook, stating he was "truly sorry" and that his actions were "inexcusable".
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Additional potential defendants other than Sean Combs are to be named in the lawsuits: "The names that we're going to name, assuming our investigators confirm and corroborate what we've been told, are names that will shock you", Buzbee commented at a press conference in Houston.
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Sean Combs is awaiting trial in federal custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
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On February 12,2025, Sean Combs' representatives filed a defamation lawsuit against NBCUniversal, Peacock, and Ample Entertainment alleging Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy contains defamatory statements.
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Sean Combs is listed as having a Guinness World Record for "Most Successful Rap Producer" in 1997, as he was producer of singles that charted for 36 consecutive weeks in 1997.
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In 2021, Sean Combs was among the inaugural inductees into the Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame.
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In June 2022, Sean Combs received the BET Lifetime Achievement Award.
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In September 2023, Sean Combs was awarded the key to New York City by Mayor Eric Adams.
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Sean Combs received an MTV VMA Global Icon Award in 2023.