Ever since Cassie Ventura accused Sean “Diddy” Combs of rape, sex trafficking, and physical abuse in 2023, the allegations against the hip-hop mogul have continued to mount. The latest blow came from actor Terrence Howard, who dropped a shocking bombshell about the Bad Boy Records founder.
Unfortunately, Terrence is just another addition to the growing list of public figures and former associates who have come forward with disturbing claims against Diddy.
As the once-revered music icon finds himself at the center of an escalating firestorm of controversy, here are the other stars who have spoken out against him.
Terrence Howard
No one probably saw this coming, but Howard alleged Diddy tried to come onto him in an interview on the PBD Podcast.
It all started when the 55-year-old producer invited him for weeks to be his acting coach for a while.
However, when he arrived at his place to work on acting materials, Diddy, who is facing federal sex trafficking charges and a series of sexual assault lawsuits, would just be “sitting” and “looking” at him.
He also claimed that Diddy asked to hear his music. But when he tried playing it for him, he would only just sit.
Confused by the record executive’s behavior, he asked Diddy’s assistant about it.
“‘I think he’s trying to f–k you,'” the assistant allegedly responded. From then on, Howard cut off all communications with Diddy.
“Now you know to be hands off with somebody,” he explained. “I’ve lost businesses because I don’t bend over in that way. I don’t compromise. I don’t play gay roles. I don’t kiss a man. I don’t do that s–t because the man card means everything.”
Cassie Ventura
Ventura, with whom Diddy had an 11-year relationship from 2007 to 2008, opened the floodgates of sexual abuse allegations after she filed a lawsuit against him on November 16, 2023.
In addition to her accusations, she also alleged that her ex-boyfriend was the one behind the blowing up of her then-boyfriend Kid Cudi’s car.
Though the two reached an undisclosed settlement and the lawsuit was dismissed, everything went downhill for Diddy when CNN released surveillance footage of him physically assaulting Ventura at the InterContinental hotel in Century City, Los Angeles, on March 5, 2016.
The incident was part of the allegations Ventura made in the lawsuit. Diddy later issued a video apology on his socials to say he was “truly sorry” and admitted his actions were “inexcusable.”
Jaguar Wright
For years, Jaguar Wright has been making allegations against Diddy and has stood her ground on her claims.
As part of the music industry in the ‘90s and noughties, Wright used to run in the same circles as Diddy.
She also claimed to have attended Diddy’s famous “parties” and witnessed how these events happened.
In her appearance on Piers Morgan: Uncensored in October 2024, she described Diddy as a “victim-making machine” and called him a “monster.”
“I think he is one of the dangerous people I've ever met,” she said about Diddy. “… Everyone knew he was the devil. He’s been the devil for 30 years.”
Wright also claimed that the allegations of how the sex workers were drugged and abused at the “freak off” parties were true.
Kimora Lee Simmons
Long before Ventura filed a lawsuit against Diddy and the release of the footage showing he was being battered, former fashion model Kimora Lee Simmons had already accused the father of seven of attempted assault.
In a feature on New York Magazine in 2004, Simmons revealed the altercation she had with Diddy while she was pregnant.
According to the Baby Phat founder, Diddy allegedly charged at her and threatened to hit her after she said something to him.
The situation escalated so quickly that Diddy ended up publicly apologizing and even went down on his knees to make amends.
“I respect him for being a fierce entrepreneur,” she said, “and I appreciate knowing that everything he does is emulating my husband.”
Simmons was married to Russell Simmons from 1998 to 2009.
Aubrey O’Day
Aubrey O’Day, Diddy’s former protégé, has been talking about her bad experience with her former boss after joining his show Making the Band.
The two first met when the musical group Danity Kane was formed in 2005 on the said reality series. After being dismissed from the group in 2008, she alleged on the Call Her Daddy podcast in 2022 that her exit had to do with her refusal to follow his non-musical requests.
“[Diddy] plays one of the dirtiest games there is around,” she told Cosmopolitan in 2018.
Fast-forward to 2023, she expressed relief over Diddy’s arrest in a talk on the Off the Vine podcast.
“At the end of last year, when Cassie dropped her lawsuit, all of our lives changed forever,” she said.
In a lengthy post on X, she also claimed that many people had already tried to warn others about Diddy, but they had been fooled by his charisma.
“His behavior could have been stopped long before things like this broke our hearts to read, his abuse didn’t have to reach me & many others including women, men, & minors.. whom of which will forever traumatize an entire industry,” she wrote. “… A lot of people’s lives were changed forever after crossing paths with this man.”
Mark Curry
Like O’Day, Curry was also Diddy’s protégé, best known for his verse on the 2001 song “Bad Boys for Life.”
However, he has eventually become an outspoken critic of Diddy. In fact, in his appearance on Mail One’s podcast series The Trial of Diddy in 2024, he accused his former mentor of deception and theft for allegedly taking credit for several songs he had written.
All this happened when Diddy promised Curry that he could release his own on his label, Bay Boy Records. Sadly, it never happened.
In December 2023, he made a revelation about Diddy’s controversial parties, claiming bottles of spirits for women guests were separated from men, suggesting narcotics might have been added to the women’s drinks.
“So when you’d get up, they’d be like, ‘Don’t touch them bottles right there, and only drink those bottles right there,’’ he alleged.
Drugs have played a major role in the controversies surrounding Diddy’s infamous parties, with many victims claiming they were forced to have sex under the influence of drugs, while others have alleged they were drugged and subsequently sexually assaulted.
From Wright to O’Day, numerous people have spoken out against Diddy, but only a few listened. Others have also tried to warn the public about his alleged wrongdoings.
Sadly, it wasn’t until Ventura’s video surfaced that people began to pay attention. Although Diddy has yet to face a legal verdict, all eyes are now on him—and on the growing list of individuals who are no longer afraid to speak out.