Usher Finally ADMITS & Shows Proof What Diddy Did To Him and Justin Bieber

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Celebrity Ties—Including Usher, Bieber, J. Lo—Under Fresh Scrutiny

Conor Murray
Forbes Staff

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends.

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Updated Oct 11, 2024, 01:01pm EDT

Topline

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest on sex trafficking charges and various sexual assault lawsuits have sparked renewed scrutiny of the many celebrities he has dated, mentored and even invited to his famous parties, comprising a list of industry giants who have largely kept quiet over the emerging scandal.

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What Is Combs’ Relationship With Usher?

Usher and Combs became acquainted in 1994, when producer LA Reid—who had signed Usher to his record label—sent him to live, when he was about 15 years old, with Combs at his home in Scarsdale, New York, while he worked on his self-titled debut album. In 2004, Usher told Rolling Stone Combs “introduced me to a totally different set of shit — sex, specifically,” while he lived at his New York home.

“There was always girls around. You’d open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy,” Usher said. But through the years, Usher has remained tight-lipped about the experience, and does not talk much about his relationship with Combs.

He addressed living with Combs in a 2016 interview with Howard Stern, but gave few details. Stern asked if it was “filled with chicks and orgying non-stop,” to which Usher replied, “Not really.” Usher said living with Combs was “pretty wild” and there were “very curious things taking place, and I didn’t necessarily understand.”

When Stern asked if Usher would ever send his kids to “Puffy camp,” he replied, “Hell no.” Last week, all of Usher’s posts on X disappeared, fueling rumors it was somehow related to Combs. But Usher wrote in a post on X Sunday that his account was “hacked and damn y’all ran with it,” and his previous posts reappeared. Usher has not commented on Combs’ arrest or sexual assault allegations.

What Is Combs’ Relationship With Justin Bieber?

Bieber, who was discovered at 13 by former marketing executive Scooter Braun, signed to Raymond Braun Music Group, a joint venture between Braun and Usher they created specifically for Bieber. In a video Bieber uploaded to his YouTube channel in November 2009, when he would have been 15 years old—which has attracted renewed attention—Combs announces that Bieber is spending “48 hours with Diddy,” saying, “where we’re hanging out and what we’re doing, we can’t really disclose, but it’s definitely a 15-year-old’s dream.” In the video, Combs says he doesn’t have legal guardianship of Bieber for the 48-hour period like he had when Usher stayed with him.

He then asks Bieber what he wants to do, and Bieber says, “Let’s go get some girls.” Combs replies, “A man after my own heart, that’s what I’m talking about.” In another video uploaded to Combs’ YouTube channel in December 2010, when Bieber was 16, Combs teaches Bieber how to “swag walk,” and tells Bieber, “You starting to act different, huh?

You ain’t been calling me and hanging out how we used to hang out.” In the years since, Bieber and Combs were pictured together less frequently but appeared to remain on good terms. In a 2014 episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” Khloé Kardashian said she went to a party where “half the people were butt-naked.” Her sister Kourtney asked who was there, rattling off a list of names: “Diddy, Quincy [Combs]

Justin Bieber, French Montana,” to which Khloé said, “So far, so good.” Bieber would have been 19 or 20 in 2014. Combs also attended Bieber’s 22nd birthday party in 2016, where he gave Bieber a Bad Boy Records jacket. Bieber also posted a throwback picture of himself and Combs on Instagram in July 2021, captioned: “My bro @diddy throwback.” Bieber and Combs did not collaborate musically until Bieber was featured on Combs’ song “Moments” in 2023, which Bieber called a “wild full circle moment.”

Bieber has spoken of feeling traumatized by his child stardom, though he has never elaborated on the cause. An interview clip of Bieber went viral in 2020, in which he said he felt protective of a then-18-year-old Billie Eilish, stating he had a difficult time with people in the music industry “telling me they loved me, and, you know, just turn your back on you in a second.”

Bieber hasn’t addressed Combs’ arrest or sexual assault allegations. CBS News reported Tuesday a song that went viral on TikTok in which Bieber appears to say he “lost himself at a Diddy party” that cost him “cost me way more than my soul” is fake and likely AI-generated.