Elon Musk Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Friendship

Elon Musk is holding the leisure trade at fault for overlooking Sean “Diddy” Combs’ alleged acts of sexual misconduct on the identical time a brand new guide is probing Musk’s personal ties to the disgraced musician and hip-hop mogul.

The 2 males’s obvious friendship grew to become a scorching matter on social media Wednesday after Musk shared a hyperlink to a Each day Mail report that outlined among the 120 lawsuits which can be anticipated to be filed on behalf of people that say they have been sexually abused by Combs and his associates.

“How many individuals in music & leisure knew about this?” Musk wrote on X, the social media platform previously generally known as Twitter which he now owns.

It didn’t take lengthy for different customers on the platform to reply with screenshots of a well-publicized excerpt from “Character Restrict: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,” written by New York Instances reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac.

The guide, printed final month, features a detailed chronicle of a dialog during which Musk boasted about his friendship with Combs to Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels, who had raised considerations over racist content material on X.

“‘I don’t know if you realize this, however Puff is an investor in Twitter,’ [Musk] mentioned, utilizing a nickname for Combs,” Mac and Conger write. “‘You recognize, he’s a superb pal of mine. We textual content quite a bit.’”

As Conger and Mac additionally level out, Combs was among the many many traders who backed Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter in 2022. Based on The New York Each day Information, Combs contributed at the very least $10 million to the acquisition.

Simply months earlier than Musk took over the platform, he and Combs have been photographed collectively at a Dave Chappelle present in Los Angeles, the place they have been seated subsequent to 1 one other.

Combs was arrested and indicted by federal authorities in September on three counts of intercourse trafficking and racketeering. Prosecutors have accused him of abusing ladies, staff and others, allegedly threatening them for years so as “to satisfy his sexual wishes, shield his repute, and conceal his conduct.”

He has pleaded not responsible.