I learned from one of the biggest gangsters in Harlem, New York—Freddy. The police said they went to his house in Mount Vernon and found stacks of $100 bills piled 6 feet high in the basement. That’s how much money he had. I told him, “You’re alright, okay, what’s up? You’re going to listen to those guys, you understand?” Freddy then revealed, “Puff’s father sold some drugs to an undercover cop. They arrested him because they had officers on the payroll to see what you were about.” He said they brought him the tape and the written confession that Puff’s father signed.
“It’s all about the Benjamins, baby,” and it seems like it’s always been that way for Diddy. Jean Deal recently spilled some never-before-heard tea about Diddy that will leave you shook and help you understand why he is the way he is. Rumors have been swirling that Diddy is messed up because his mom allegedly introduced him to freak-offs as a child. Now, Jean Deal has uncovered insane evidence proving that Diddy’s father, Melvin Combs, was a drug dealer in Harlem, New York, and may be just as responsible for shaping Diddy as Mama Combs.
Melvin wasn’t a small-time dealer; he was partnering with Frank Lucas—the Frank Lucas—one of the most notorious dealers of all time. After Melvin died, the feds believed the entire operation fell apart. But Jean now claims that Diddy has allegedly been secretly running the syndicate the entire time, exposing him as one of New York’s biggest drug lords. Hold on to your lace fronts, your edges, and your thinning hair because this is about to get crazy!
So now, he’s hooked on drugs and alcohol. When I say Jean Deal is not letting go of Diddy’s neck anytime soon, I mean it—he’s dead set on ruining Diddy’s life for good. Jean’s been on Diddy’s case long before Diddy got sued and exposed by seven people for sexual assault and physical violence. Jean has been trying to warn everyone about the real Diddy behind the scenes. He outed Diddy for being on the down-low, having multiple gay affairs with men in the industry, and allegedly putting hits on several people in the industry, including Biggie Smalls and Tupac. Jean also claimed that Diddy lied to Biggie Smalls’ mother about what happened to her son because he wanted to control Biggie’s masters and portfolio, even though he told her he didn’t know.
Maybe he did that because he knew I was going to tell Ms. Wallace everything. Now, I don’t know about y’all, but that seems like a man with a shady past to me. Jean also mentioned how Biggie was trying to get his publishing rights away from Diddy and prevent Diddy from getting his hands on new publishing rights. Diddy had robbed him of his publishing and marketing. Puff saw that Big had learned to put his publishing in other people’s names to keep the money he was owed. But Big had to play the game because he wanted to get his publishing and marketing back that he had sold to Puff.
But Jean has even more stories to share because he just dropped a major bombshell about Diddy’s past in a new interview. Jean claimed that Diddy allegedly inherited a business from his father. “There’s something you mentioned about Diddy’s dad. His dad was a major figure. I didn’t know anything about his pops until I found out he was one of the biggest gangsters in Harlem, New York—Freddy. The police said they went to New York Freddy’s house in Mount Vernon and found stacks of $100 bills six feet high in the basement. That’s how much money he had. He was the one who started Russell Simmons in the music business because he had a record label first that Russell Simmons used to work for.”
“So now, New York Freddy wants to talk to Big Jean, one of his lieutenants back in the day. Omar, one of our OGs from 112th Street, 114th Street, used to come around because they loved the food I cooked—I’m a hell of a cook, you know. Omar says, ‘New York Freddy wants to talk to you, Jean. I told him you used to bodyguard Puff because he wants to tell Puff the real story about his father.’ So I said, ‘Yeah, all right.’ I took a meeting with New York Freddy. He said, ‘I’ve been trying to get in touch with Puff, Russell Simmons. None of them would take my calls. I want to tell Puff the true story about his father.’ I said, ‘Okay, you know what’s up?’ New York Freddy said, ‘Puff’s father sold some stuff to one of the undercover guys. They arrested him because they had cops on the payroll to see what you were about.’ They brought him the tape and the written confession that Puff’s father signed. They gave him $10,000. Puff’s father said he only told because he had a wedding to go to, which I thought was hilarious.”
“New York Freddy said he wanted to talk to Puff, but Puff wouldn’t take his calls or see him. He said, ‘I want to let him know that I told the guy, ‘Y’all got to get rid of him. Y’all brought him in, y’all got to get rid of him.’ All these people talking about he worked for Frank Lucas or whoever—nah, he worked with New York Freddy’s team. New York Freddy told the dude to get rid of him.”
Y’all, the plot is thickening like crazy, like we’re adding all kinds of cornstarch! Jean says he uncovered a whole can of worms about Diddy, claiming that he inherited his dad’s street connections and empire. When Diddy’s father died, everyone thought the business died with him. But according to Jean, it never really did—Diddy allegedly took over and has been running it on the down-low, using Bad Boy Records as a front. This is some major tea, so get comfortable because we’re about to dive deep into the details about Diddy’s father.
Diddy’s father, Melvin Combs, died when Diddy was just 3 years old. Diddy says he doesn’t remember much about his dad because he was so young. It’s no surprise that Diddy’s childhood plays a part in this, as many experts believe that our early years shape who we become, especially if there’s trauma involved. Research shows that a messed-up childhood can lead to a messed-up adulthood. Given Diddy’s alleged issues, it’s clear that something damaging might have happened during his childhood.
From what we know, Diddy was exposed to a lot as a kid, raising questions about how protected he was. His father, Melvin Earl Combs, was friends with notorious drug lord Frank Lucas, who was known for smuggling heroin in the coffins of dead American servicemen. The movie “American Gangster” is based on Lucas’s life. It’s unclear how Melvin, who served in the US Air Force, became friends with Lucas. But they were more than just friends—Melvin was an associate and soldier for Lucas. Talk about walking both sides of the line! If Diddy learned to live a double life, being shady in private while pretending to be an upstanding citizen in public, it seems he got it from his father.
It turns out that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, even if they die young. Melvin wasn’t the only one; Diddy’s uncles were also involved in drug dealing. As mentioned before, Melvin was killed when Diddy was around two to three years old, believed to be due to a botched drug deal. Diddy has always expressed how hard his father’s death was on him. He once said, “Being that my father was killed when I was three years old, I don’t have a lot of memories of my father. They say you can’t miss something you never had, but that’s only a little ways right. There’s definitely been times as I’ve gotten older that I’ve missed my father, his presence not being here. There’s things that you would ask your father, there’s also things that you would celebrate with him that would make him proud.”
In another interview, he spoke about his father’s lifestyle, saying, “My father was a hustler. He was a drug dealer, and he was a hustler. So I learned early in life that there are only two ways out of that dead end: jail or death. It made me work even harder. Sometimes you can’t just answer why things happen, but I definitely think the route that I went on, staying out of the streets and hitting my books and trying to be somebody, I think he played a role in that. I have a hustler’s mentality, his hustler spirit, his drive, his determination, his swag.”
But let’s be real, Diddy. If there’s one thing we know about you, it’s that you definitely didn’t stay out of the streets. You didn’t hit the books like that. Sure, you got into Howard University, but you dropped out early because you were more interested in the streets and decided that books weren’t for you. Claiming to be a bookworm is just ridiculous. Listen, Diddy, you don’t have to lie to fit in. We know your background, so don’t act brand new.
Also, is it just me, or is it strange how people praised his father and talked about how similar he is to him, as if his father wasn’t a known criminal? That should have been a major red flag about Diddy and his shady activities, but we all assumed Diddy was just nostalgic about his dad. We didn’t really know the truth until now.
Anyway, as I mentioned, Diddy’s father worked with Frank Lucas. In recent times, some try to downplay his role in the gang by saying he was just a driver or chauffeur, but it goes deeper than that. According to Frank himself, Melvin was a key part of his syndicate. In an interview, he said, “Melvin Combs, he’s a good friend of mine. That’s Puff Daddy’s father. He used to bring his son to my house every day, at least two or three times a week, and my daughter used to push him off the toys. He made it great. You see where he’s at now; he’s on top of the world now.”
The interviewer asked, “Were you and Melvin just friends or business partners?” Lucas replied, “All of the above. We did business, and we were good friends. He was really a good friend of mine.” When asked how he met Melvin, Lucas said, “We all were out there on 7th Avenue, and everybody knew everybody out there. I don’t remember how I met him, but we had a good relationship.”
Unfortunately, things took a turn when the feds started planning to take down Frank Lucas’s syndicate. They needed someone on the inside, and that someone was Melvin. Now, don’t get this wrong—Melvin was not a snitch. Instead, he was set up by the feds, and they used him to get to Lucas. Reports indicate that Melvin’s phones were tapped, and the feds started to trail him. Somehow, the syndicate found out and assumed Melvin was working with the feds to expose them, so they took him out. He was found on Central Park West with a bullet in his head, eyewitnesses reporting that it was a mob-style execution. Despite this, it was reported as a drug deal gone sour. His death was linked to a massive ring bust, but no one was ever held accountable for his murder.
Naturally, all eyes were on Lucas, and rumors swirled that he ordered the hit on Melvin, believing he was working with the feds. However, Lucas has always denied this, insisting that Melvin was his close friend who frequently visited his house.
Melvin’s death didn’t exonerate him. The feds brought a case against him that exposed his role in New York’s narcotics trade. In 1973, Melvin was named a co-conspirator in a massive narcotics case, though he’d already passed before others were convicted. Prosecutors believed his passing could be linked to other involved members, though it’s unclear who or why. If he hadn’t passed away, he likely would have been convicted as well.
After the death of his father, Diddy’s mom, Janice, tried her best to shield her three-year-old son from the harsh realities of his father’s life and prevent him from following the same path. When he was 12, she moved him and his sister away from Harlem to Mount Vernon, New York, working multiple jobs to send Diddy to a private school. Reflecting on this, he said, “Until I was 12, I lived in Harlem. Then we moved to Mount Vernon, New York. That was Mom’s way of getting us out of the inner city after my father was killed. But my grandmother lived in Harlem, so I went back and forth. I remember the simple things about Mount Vernon: grass, trees, and being able to play baseball. In Harlem, there was no Little League, no front yard with grass. But the neighborhood was multicultural, so that broadened my horizons.”
According to reports, Janice was desperate to give Diddy the best life she could afford, even if it meant going into debt. With crime rampant on the streets, she didn’t want him exposed to that life. In 1987, she enrolled him in an all-boys Catholic school, Mount St. Michael Academy. Knowing what we know about Diddy, it’s kind of wild that he attended a Catholic school. Even more astonishing, he served as an altar boy.
Janice was so determined to protect Diddy that she kept the truth about Melvin Combs’ death from him. According to Diddy, she wanted to prevent him from going down the same path as his father. During a 2006 interview with Oprah Winfrey, Diddy (then known as P. Diddy) recalled that his mother claimed Melvin died in a car crash. However, he eventually discovered the truth on his own. “She tried to protect me. My father was a hustler who sold drugs. During his time, that was the way out of Harlem, either that or playing basketball,” Diddy said. “My mother didn’t want me to follow in his footsteps, so she was selective about which truths she told me. My father was in the Army, owned a limousine service, and died in a car accident. Actually, he was shot in a car. But even as a kid, I put two and two together. Guys from the streets in Harlem always seemed to know my family’s last name. ‘I used to run with your father,’ they would tell me. All my uncles were street hustlers as well.”
During his May 2014 Howard University commencement speech, Combs again addressed how he learned about his dad’s death. He stated that during his brief time at the university, he discovered a newspaper article detailing his father had been killed in a soured narcotics deal. You’d think, given his father’s tragic ending and his mom working two jobs and nearly going into debt to put him through private Catholic school, he’d stay on the straight and narrow, right? Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.
Reports suggest Diddy made some troubling connections even at his private Catholic school. He reportedly became very close with Andrew Campos, a member of the infamous Gambino crime family of La Cosa Nostra. Diddy and Andrew played football together at St. Michael’s and remained in contact after graduation. Campos rose to become a captain in the Gambino family but was arrested in 2022 on RICO charges, money laundering, and wire fraud, receiving a 37-month prison sentence. But Campos wasn’t Diddy’s only connection. According to Jean, Diddy not only revived his dad’s old business but also allegedly expanded it into other regions, including Detroit, Michigan.
Remember the Jane Doe who sued Diddy last year? She recently spoke out, and the details are shocking. This anonymous woman claimed that Diddy, along with his friends, including Harvey Pierre, allegedly sexually assaulted and drugged her when she was just 17. In her lawsuit, she exposed Diddy’s alleged ties to the BMF family in Detroit. Yes, the connections just keep piling up. Jane Doe claimed that the BMF family helped Diddy start Bad Boy Records and that they have allegedly been using the record label as a front for money laundering. According to the lawsuit, “A decade earlier, Mr. Combs founded Bad Boy and installed his longtime friend Mr. Pierre into the role of president. At the time, Mr. Combs had many connections to Michigan, including, among others, to the Black Mafia Family (BMF), a drug trafficking and money-laundering organization that is rumored to have seeded Bad Boy. Accordingly, upon information and belief, Mr. Combs’s associates, including Mr. Pierre and the third assailant, spent significant time in and around Detroit, Michigan.”
And that’s not all. Let’s talk about Diddy’s history of allegedly tricking or forcing celebs into using drugs. We all know about Cassie’s ordeal and the other lawsuits, but there are numerous other incidents that people seem to have forgotten about. And get this: the celebs involved are always people working under him who can’t really say no. For instance, when he signed rapper Machine Gun Kelly to Bad Boy Records in 2011, Kelly revealed that Diddy gave him something to smoke that was unlike anything he’d ever smoked before. Kelly said, “I’d smoked something that Puff had given me. It was as if I had partied like three nights straight. I was like, ‘I’m about to go to the airport, I need something that’ll knock me out.’ It totally did the opposite. I was doing crazy dance moves to the weirdest music for 20 minutes straight, like while he was on the phone, and I was just outside the window looking in while he was looking at me like, ‘Man, this kid is nuts.'”
It’s absolutely wild and deeply disturbing. Now, news about drugs in Hollywood isn’t new—most celebs have dabbled—but Diddy is one of the few accused of selling and dealing. The feds even arrested his alleged friend at Miami International Airport, catching him red-handed with some of that nose candy and other substances. It’s crazy, but according to Jean Deal, this has allegedly been going on for a long time, with Diddy running his father’s business and using Bad Boy Records as a cover.
Y’all, the streets are talking, and people are starting to connect the dots, leaving comments about some shady circle. Honestly, I believe that what happened to your parents can happen to you. That’s probably why they didn’t tell you the whole truth. It’s important to be aware of your actions every day. This issue revolves around repeated behaviors. Knowing this, it kind of makes sense why Diddy blew up a car. He’s from that kind of crowd. Who would’ve thought?
And things just keep getting messier. No wonder he’s got issues. Y’all, this situation is getting crazier by the day, and as the plot thickens, I really want to know what y’all think. Do you believe Diddy was actually a major crime drug lord hiding behind Bad Boy Records? Drop your thoughts in the comments below and then check out this next video!