Former Bad Boy Records rapper Shyne has a stern message about Sean “Diddy” Combs following the mogul’s authorized fallout: “This is an individual who destroyed my life.”
The Belizean hip-hop artist turned politician broke his silence on Combs’ newest authorized woes throughout a press convention earlier this week, invoking a capturing within the Nineties that ruined his relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder.
“This is an individual who in a way testified towards me once I was on trial,” Shyne stated on the convention, in response to a clip broadcast Thursday by Belize radio station Love FM.
“I used to be defending him and he circled and known as witnesses to testify towards me,” Shyne (born Jamal Barrow) continued, “He mainly despatched me to jail.”
Shyne, a former protégé of Combs, was sentenced in 2001 to 10 years in jail for an assault conviction stemming from a 1999 New York nightclub capturing involving Combs and his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez. Three bystanders have been injured. Combs was acquitted within the broadly publicized case. Shyne was launched in 2009 and deported to his dwelling nation.
The former entertainer, whose profession was minimize brief by the conviction, stated on the press convention that he had “forgiven” and “moved on.” He acknowledged Combs’ efforts to assist promote training in Belize, however distanced himself from his former mentor. He made it clear that their relationship is much from amicable.
“He’s not somebody I went on trip with and had this nice, intimate, brotherly relationship with,” Shyne stated.
Shyne’s feedback come after Combs was arrested Monday evening and charged with three counts of intercourse trafficking, racketeering and transportation for prostitution. He stays in a federal jail in Brooklyn, N.Y., awaiting trial.
Combs’s alleged historical past of sexual assault got here to mild when his ex-girlfriend and singer Casandra “Cassie” Ventura sued the rapper in November 2023. The lawsuit was settled a day after it was filed, nevertheless it opened the door for different civil lawsuits, together with these from producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones and Danity Kane singer Dawn Richard.
Mounting allegations of sexual assault and intercourse trafficking paved the way in which for a federal investigation that included Homeland Security raids in March on Combs’s houses in Holmby Hills and Miami.
“This is a person who has destroyed my life,” she said. “But do I feel any joy or satisfaction for what he’s going through? Absolutely not.”
