Sean “Diddy” Combs allegedly broke a chair over a music executive’s head and left him bloody for dating his Ex Kim Porter, the exec’s mother told Rolling Stone.
This is one of the new allegations revealed in an extensive investigation of the music mogul published on Wednesday, May 29.
Combs was reportedly enraged at Porter’s budding romance with music executive Shakir Stewart. In the summer of 2000, as music industry bigs celebrated L.A. Reid’s wedding in Italy, Combs strode to Stewart’s room after the ceremony and broke a chair over his head, Rolling Stone reported.
“He left him bleeding on a hotel floor in Italy,” the alleged victim’s mother Portia Stewart was quoted as saying. “He had to have stitches.”
Combs wasn’t done, she said. He threatened to kill Stewart.
“That’s when I said you need to get out of this business,” Portia Stewart told Rolling Stone. “This man is crazy.”
Two close friends corroborated the story to the publication.
Stewart committed suicide in 2008 and Porter died of pneumonia in 2018.
Rolling Stone interviewed dozens of former associates ranging from friends to acquaintances and employees, along with industry insiders and artists with Bad Boy Records, the label Combs founded in 1993. In all, more than 50 people agreed to be interviewed for the lengthy exposé, many of them off the record, the magazine said.
By Ezinne Okorie.
