Feds set to widen Diddy xes probe over claims rapper boasted about shooting people, bribing jurors and using J.Lo as gun mule
By Dana Kennedy
Published March 30, 2024, 8:00 a.m. ET
Almost 25 years ago, just after 2:30 am on a cold winter night, three NYPD detectives were called to the Midtown North precinct.
Rap impresario Sean Combs, then known as Puffy, his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, his bodyguard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, and rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, had been arrested following a shooting inside a Times Square clubthat wounded three bystanders.
The cops found Lopez, then 30, cuffed in “the cage.” Combs was also in the station house on West 54th Street, his plans for a spectacular celebration of the new millennium a few days later temporarily on hold.
Jennifer Lopez and Diddy, who was known as Puff Daddy, were arrested in the aftermath of a 1999 nightclub shooting in Times Square when they were dating. Diddy is now the subject of a federal probe and his many past cases involving violence may get looked into again.
Jennifer Lopez and Diddy, then known as Puff Daddy, dated for almost two years and were both arrested after the infamous shooting in Dec. 1999 at Club New York.
Now the events of that night and the sensational trial which followed it in early 2001 are back in the spotlight.
Two law enforcement sources tell The Post that the infamous shooting and the trial could possibly be re-investigated as part of a sweeping federal probe into Combs, now 54 and called Diddy — whose past includes more than one mysterious shooting.
On Monday, Homeland Security agents swarmed Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami in raids which law enforcement sources told The Post were prompted by xes-trafficking allegations.
“They got eyes on him in Miami and the feds are talking to witness after witness,” New York criminal defense attorney Michael Discioarro who is familiar with the case told The Post.
But Jason Whitlock, author and host of the “Fearless” podcast, opined to The Post, “There’s an avalanche of truth coming — as well as a lot of distortions and opportunists coming.
“Diddy could just get buried by that avalanche.
They’re corroborating everything they can. But everything past and present is on the table with Mr. Diddy right now.”
Ex-NYPD Det. Derrick Parker, who was part of the “rap intelligence” squad, handled P. Diddy’s case after a 1999 shooting at a Times Square night club. Parker who today is a private investigator, posed last week near the location of the now-defunct club. Stefano Giovannini
Inside Club New York on West 43rd Street 20 minutes after bullets flew and J.Lo and Diddy fled the scene in a Navigator before being arrested.
The federal agents stormed into Diddy’s homes one month after Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones filed an explosive lawsuit claiming the music mogul repeatedly xesually assaulted him from September 2022 to November 2023 while Jones was a producer and videographer for the billionaire.
Jones compared Combs to Jeffrey Epstein and accused the mogul of groping his genitals, grooming him into having xes and forcing him to procure xes workers, strippers and drugs.
His suit came less than three months after Diddy settled an explosive lawsuit alleging xesual violence filed by his former girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie, alleged that Diddy ran an Epstein-like operation involving xesual assault, human trafficking, and blackmail with hidden cameras that captured high-profile names in entertainment, politics and sports in homosexual acts and other compromising positions.
Combs, 54, and Lopez, 54, dated for two years, from 1999 to 2001. Since the raids, fans have speculated that one of the abusive relationships she said she had was Diddy.
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Diddy’s booking photo after the Club New York shooting in Dec. 1999. He was later acquitted of all gun and bribery charges stemming from the incident. NYPD
Jones alleged in his suit that Diddy was violent, threatened to “to eat” his face, brandished guns — and most pointedly, was often “bragging about bribing witnesses, and jurors in the criminal case concerning the 1999 NYC nightclub shooting with Shyne.”
The shooting stemmed from an argument between Diddy and a Brooklyn thug named Matthew Allen who was nicknamed “Scar.”
But Diddy, his bodyguard Anthony Jones and “Shyne” Barrow endured a 7-week trial in February and March 2001 — which ended with Diddy and Jones walking free and Barrow, then 21, being convicted on assault and gun possession sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Mystery still surrounds the Club New York shooting, especially for former detective Parker, who left the so-called “Hip Hop Cop” squad at the NYPD and is now a into private investigator.
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Jamal “Shyne” Barrow, then 22, entering court for the Club New York trial at 111 Centre Street. Barrow, who is now the Opposition Leader in Belize, served 10 years in prison. New York Post
Sean Combs’ supporters lined up outside Manhattan Supreme Court during the 2001 trial. Getty Images
Diddy has been dogged for years by rumors that he made Shyne — now known as Moses Michael Levi Barrow and who is the Opposition Leader of the House of Representatives in Belize — take the fall for the incident.
“The story was that Puff was flossing which is what they call someone on the streets who’s throwing money around and acting like a big shot,” Parker said.
“Scar felt disrespected because he felt he was as important as Puff and words were exchanged and then bullets started flying.”
Diddy, then known as “Puffy.” leaving court one day during his 2001 trial. AFP via Getty Images
Shots were fired and Lopez and Diddy fled the club after the shooting in a Lincoln Navigator. Diddy’s driver Wardel Fenderson later said that he blew past several red lights as they careened down 43rd Street and onto Eighth Avenue, weaving past two police cars.
“Shyne busted off! Shyne busted off in the air!” Fenderson quoted Lopez as saying — before cops pulled them over.
Former NYPD Det. Derrick Parker told The Post how in the precinct, “Her mother was yelling at J.Lo in Spanish and she was really mad at Jennifer. I heard her say, I told you not to get involved with (him.)”
Lopez was released from custody without being charged after 14 hours in jail.
His shit not trickling down to me and it doesn't appear to be trickling down to the people it's actually supposed to either.
Being black
Being a billionaire
Being a black billionaire
Does not provide cover for you if you're a piece of shit human being
It doesn't grant you immunity from being prosecuted for shit you may have done
It really pisses me the hell off that people here and on social media are really trying to make this dude some highly revered being when people like Fred Hampton who didn't have 1/25th resources Puff has did more with way less and as a legitimate attack on the black community/men, lost his life before the age of 26?
I'm not saying Puff is guilty. I will say that an overwhelming majority of the time, where there is smoke, there is fire. I'm still waiting for all the facts to come out but at the same time, I'm not gonna be caping for this dude either. I do not know this man nor do I know what he is capable of doing when he thinks no one is watching or he won't get caught.
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