Diddy's 10 Closest Celeb Friends Who Are Uncomfortably Quiet Amid Allegations

The following article includes allegations of domestic violence.

As his legal woes deepen, Sean "Diddy" Combs is increasingly alone, with his famous friends distancing themselves from the disgraced Bad Boys Records founder. For a refresher, Diddy's awaiting trial for charges relating to racketeering and sex trafficking. People reports that he's been denied bail twice and is currently on suicide watch at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

The rapper's indictment paints a disturbing picture, with claims that 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant were seized from his homes and details of alleged physical and sexual abuse, kidnappings, threats and blackmail, and "freak off" parties where Diddy and his associates purportedly lured female victims and then coerced them into sex acts with commercial sex workers. According to the document, parties were often secretly filmed, which could embarrass A-list guests and potentially explain why the celebs speaking out about Diddy are few and far between. Something social media sleuths have seized upon, speculating on who's staying schtum and why. 

There have been some celebs who have unloaded on Diddy, though. 50 Cent has been speaking out against him for years and is producing a Netflix docu-series about the Diddy allegations. Meanwhile, some believe that Kanye "Ye" West foreshadowed Diddy's downfall in "Carnival," released in February. "Now I'm Ye-Kelly, bh, now, I'm Bill Cosby, bh. Now, I'm Puff Daddy rich, that's 'Me Too' me rich," Ye raps. Still, while a few have sounded off, the silence from others is deafening. We're looking at Diddy's ten closest celeb friends who are uncomfortably quiet amid allegations.

In the early '90s, Usher, only 14 at the time, moved in with Diddy after signing a record deal with LA Reid. The move, facilitated by Reid, was targeted at providing mentorship to a young Usher who had just broken into the music scene. And who better to help with that than Puff Daddy, as he was then known. But while Usher's time proved helpful to his career, it also meant access to Diddy's party lifestyle. "There was always girls around. You'd open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy. You never knew what was going to happen," Usher recounted during a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone.

However, he had changed tack by 2016, toning down his observations and minimizing his role. "I got a chance to see some things ... I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I was even looking at. It was pretty wild. It was crazy," Usher told Howard Stern. "There were very curious things taking place, and I didn't necessarily understand it."

Still, Usher's silence amid the Diddy allegations has led to speculation about the true extent of his participation. This was further fueled when nearly all of Usher's X history was deleted — which some viewed as confirmation he had something to hide. However, Usher claimed otherwise. "Account got hacked and damn y'all ran with it!" he insisted while continuing to remain silent on Diddy.

Arguably one of Diddy's longest-lasting friends in the industry, Ashton Kutcher has never been shy about his bond with the music mogul. Additionally, the actor has proven himself a reliable support system for Diddy and a regular guest at the rapper's parties. So, maybe it's no surprise that Kutcher has gone quiet amid the shocking allegations — especially given that his radio silence is nothing new.

Kutcher played coy when asked about Diddy's notorious "freak off" parties in September 2019. "I've got a lot I can't tell," he told "Hot Ones" host Sean Evans. "Except... so, uh... can't tell that one, either," a laughing Kutcher admitted, pausing dramatically. "I'm actually cycling through them," he explained before discussing their close relationship. "We became fast friends. We used to just hang out and watch football together," he reminisced fondly.

Kutcher's reluctance to speak up isn't a good look for him. It's also not the first time he's made a stand on the wrong side of sexual abuse. Kutcher and his wife, Mila Kunis, came under fire in May 2023 for writing letters in support of their close friend Danny Masterson following his conviction on two counts of forcible rape. This resulted in their resignation from the board of Thorn, an anti-human trafficking organization founded in 2012 by Kutcher and his first wife, Demi Moore, who was replaced by Kunis following the couple's divorce.

Back in 2002, Diddy was rumored to be in a relationship with supermodel Naomi Campbell. Though neither Campbell nor Diddy confirmed the rumors, the pair has remained friendly over the years, often appearing together at public events. "I just never know what's going to happen with Puff. It's always something magical. I went to dinner with him a few weeks ago, and after dinner, we ended up in a recording studio with four boy band groups auditioning. It was the most amazing talent! This is why, for me, when I'm with him, I just roll with it. I love his company, I love his demeanor, I love his love towards me and I love our friendship," Campbell once gushed to AOL about her bond with the music mogul. 

In November 2023, fans got to know the extent of the pair's friendship after Campbell threw the music mogul a London bash to celebrate his 54th birthday. The party, held in Soho, was attended by many Hollywood A-listers, including Janet Jackson, Idris Elba, and Diddy's sons. As it stands now, however, Campbell seems to be distancing herself from the music mogul amid his legal woes. In November 2023, after news of Cassie's sexual assault lawsuit against Diddy broke, the supermodel scrubbed her Instagram of pictures from the Soho birthday party. 

Following Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones' February 2024 lawsuit against Diddy and his subsequent arrest, Campbell's silence has become even louder. 

Diddy's friendship with Lil' Kim dates back to the '90s when the "Lady Marmalade" rapper signed to The Notorious B.I.G.'s record label. In the years that followed, Kim and Diddy grew closer, but interestingly, she never signed with his label. "Biggie did bring me to Puffy," Kim recounted to MTV News. "He said, 'She's too pretty to be rapping. Female rappers don't look like her. What am I supposed to do with her?'" Despite their long-standing relationship, however, things have not always been rosy between Kim and Diddy.

In the mid-2000s, the pair hit a rough bump after Kim served a 10-month sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. "I'm bothered by his actions, because I rolled with Puffy to the bitter end, and still would have rolled with him. Puffy never came to see me in prison, not one time. He didn't write me a letter. He didn't say, 'Here's a number for Kim to call,' not one time," she lamented. Notably, Kim revealed she was no longer friends with Diddy after failing to defend her amid her feud with fellow rapper Nicki Minaj.

The pair, however, eventually settled their rift and soon became close again. In celebration of Diddy's 54th birthday in November 2023, the "Crush on You" star shared a picture of herself in a warm embrace with the Bad Boy Records owner. "Love u 4 LiFe Big Bro! HBD @diddy," she wrote in the caption.

In 1999, Diddy started dating Jennifer Lopez, whom he would go on to be with for two years before things ended in 2001. In a later interview, Lopez blamed their split on Diddy's infidelity, noting that he was the first man to cheat on her. "I was in this relationship with Puff where I was totally crying, crazy, and going nuts, it really took my whole life in a tailspin. I never caught him [cheating] but I just knew. He'd say he was going to a club for a couple of hours and then never come back that night," she explained to Vibe (via US Weekly).

While their split was seemingly ugly, Lopez and Diddy remained friendly, most notably reuniting at the 2018 "All I Have" Las Vegas residency party where they shared a hug. Though not much is known about the pair's friendship, they were back in the headlines in 2021 when the music executive shared a throwback photo of himself and the singer. While many interpreted Diddy's post as a dig at Lopez's new romance with her now-husband, Ben Affleck, the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper clarified his intentions in an interview with Vanity Fair. "It wasn't no trolling involved, that's just my friend. And I don't have nothing to say about her relationship or her life," he explained. 

Despite their alleged friendship, however, Lopez has been quiet since Diddy's legal woes began. Perhaps this is a one-sided friendship? Only time will tell.

LeBron James is another of Diddy's close friends who's remained suspiciously quiet amid the scandal. He's also another one who's had an embarrassing interview resurface and blow up in his face. "Hey, everybody knows, ain't no party like a Diddy party," James gushes in an Instagram Live chat. Well, that definitely didn't age well.

To prove James' supposed involvement in the scandal, some seized on an old clip of Ye, seemingly implying Diddy has compromising material that's being used to ensure the athlete's silence. "They can control LeBron James," Ye tells a reporter. "Ah s**t now that Kanye says it's more likely to be true. He's been right about all the Diddy stuff so far," a commenter wrote on X. "Ye was ahead of his time and they tried to paint him as unstable," another insisted.

Meanwhile, political commentator and pundit Candace Owens slammed James during a September 2024 episode of her YouTube show and speculated on why he's remained silent. "Is it plausible that [Diddy's] got LeBron James doing something that he wouldn't want made public?" she asked, calling his silence "deafening." Then, the baller's fellow NBA vet, Kwame Brown, let loose during a YouTube live video. "You supposed to be a grown-ass man," Brown ranted. "N***a big as you is come out and say something to people n***a f**k all this indirect s**t I think that's cowardism. Yeah, you supposed to be the king, n***a; king talk directly to people."

Justin Bieber was just 15 when he was taken under 40-year-old Diddy's wing. For a while, the odd couple was spotted everywhere together, leading many to wonder what a grown man was doing hanging out with a teenage boy. Well, apparently, they were things he couldn't discuss in public. Creepy.

After the Diddy allegations went public, an old video resurfaced of Bieber hanging out at the rapper's house — and it does nothing to quell those creeped-out feelings. Quite the opposite, in fact. Biebs uploaded the video titled "Justin Bieber's 48 Hours with Diddy!!" to his official YouTube channel. In it, Diddy promises his young protégé his Ferrari when he turns 16. "You could ride in the passenger seat now I got my permit," an excited Bieber says, barely able to stand still. "Then when you're 18, you get the house, you get the mansion," Diddy tells him. "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. I have been given custody of him," Diddy later boasts.

Bieber, reportedly "stressed" from juggling the demands of first-time fatherhood and the fallout from the Diddy allegations, went noticeably silent after the news broke. As he seemingly went underground, fears grew for his well-being. When Biebs surfaced to visit his church, his gaunt and grungy appearance did little to quell concerns.

When it came to her allegedly abusive and controlling marriage to Tommy Mottola, Mariah Carey was selective about picking her fights — for obvious reasons. However, she admitted in her 2020 memoir, "The Meaning of Mariah Carey," that she chose to go to bat for Diddy. "'Puffy will be shining my shoes in two years,'" she recalled Mottola telling her and her nephew Shawn. "It was one of the very few times I stood up to Tommy, telling him that what he had said was blatantly racist," she wrote. "I was pissed. Shawn had never seen me talk back to him; he was shocked that I showed my anger."

Carey and Diddy's relationship became even closer after she left Mottola. In fact, they were reported to be dating while working on her album "Butterfly." Carey made the unusual move of addressing the speculation in an interview with "MTV Raw" in 1997. "We're not together, just so the world knows. I love Puffy," she insisted. "Puffy and I are not together, so can we stop the rumors, please?"

Fans on Reddit claim she stopped following Diddy on social media in May 2024, which is when CNN released that shocking video of him viciously attacking his ex-partner, Cassie. Still, she's been radio silent amid the Diddy allegations, something that's not gone unnoticed by her legion of followers. "Please don't chew me out but knowing now that Diddy is literally the devil, I would really like Mariah to say something," one wrote.

Will Smith's silence amid the Diddy allegations has sparked a seemingly never-ending stream of crazy conspiracy theories, rumors, and fake news videos. YouTube is filled with phony reports claiming everything from Diddy and Smith having an affair to Smith supposedly selling his daughter, Willow, to Diddy. Still, ludicrous fake news aside, the two definitely have a close relationship. Diddy even stepped in to make amends between Chris Rock and Smith after the infamous 2022 Oscars slap that was heard around the world. "OK, Will and Chris, we're going to solve this like family at the Gold Party, OK? But right now, we are moving on with love. Everybody make some noise!" Diddy said while presenting the tribute to the 50th anniversary of "The Godfather" trilogy.

The two even managed to weather a scandal storm after rumors swirled that Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett, tried to entice Jennifer Lopez into a threesome when she was with Diddy. When Jimmy Kimmel raised the subject in a 2023 interview, Diddy shot it down — sort of, but not really. "Whaaat? I don't know what you're talking about," he said, faking a look of disbelief while spreading his hands.

So, what's the haps with Smith staying mum? Social media sleuths believe they have the answer. "Diddy felt the heat and dropped names under his birthday guest list, insinuating that he will expose others before his arrest. No coincidences," one claimed, listing Smith's name as a supposed target.

Jay-Z and Beyoncé have been eerily quiet amid the Diddy allegations, something many find strange, given they're two of his highest-profile and closest friends. The couple has been the subject of wild conspiracy theories for years. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who steadfastly believe they are lizard people and integral members of a satanic cabal dedicated to bringing about a New World Order. So, given that they're already a hot topic, it's no surprise conspiracy theorists have placed them front and center in their Diddy investigations. A subject that's not helped by them seemingly being M.I.A.

"BEYONCÉ WAS ON DIDDYS LIST [THE] PROPHECY IS TRUE," a commenter on X claimed. "So in this whole diddy situation when it comes to jay z and beyonce (since people are doubting the ability for beyonce to be evil) she literally sings 'just know i roll with them goons' and she's literally obsessed with jay z shes for sure in it," another insisted.

Meanwhile, an industry insider claimed they're laying low until the Diddy allegation storm blows over, pointing to the fact that Beyoncé hasn't been promoting her album "Cowboy Carter" as supposed evidence. "This was supposed to be Beyoncé's time, with her much-anticipated country album out [just] two months ago," the source told Page Six. "And yet, she is nowhere to be seen. The album is slipping and Jay and B aren't reveling in the spotlight."

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