He appeared less than comfortable with the conversation even as he told DeGeneres he “doesn’t feel it’s right for anybody to hit anybody at the end of the day.”
“People who’ve been in relationships, we know sometimes these relationships get ugly and sometimes it doesn’t come out into the forefront the way this one has come out,” Combs said at the time. “It’s a lot of stones being thrown and we don’t know exactly what’s going on.”
Brown and Rihanna ultimately split, and in June 2009 he pleaded guilty to assaulting her.
‘The love movement’
Fuse’s “On the Record” featured an interview in 2012 in which Combs discussed topics ranging from his career to his late father.
A portion of the conversation centered on his Sean John fashion line.
The interviewer, journalist Touré, asked Combs about his style advice for men.
That led Combs to discussing being a proponent of “the love movement,” and offering men “anti-ashiness” grooming advice which stressed the importance of using lotion to battle dry, ashy skin.
His trial included photo evidence and lengthy discussion regarding large amounts of baby oil procured for the sexual encounters Combs participated in called “Freak Offs” or “hotel nights.”
His “love movement” was not just a one-off. Combs legally changed his middle name to “Love” in 2021. He named his youngest child Love after she was born the following year.
His name change came after the 2018 death of Kim Porter at the age of 47 from pneumonia with whom Combs shared twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie, 18, son Christian, 27, and her son Quincy Brown, 34, whom Combs helped raise.
“Whenever I was around her, I felt as though God had his hand in it. I always felt like God had sent her,” Combs told Essence in an interview with Dream Hampton after Porter’s death. “Nobody could love me the way she loved me, especially as, you know, as crazy as I acted. I mean, she loved me through some real s**t.”
When Combs was presented with a lifetime achievement recognition at the BET Awards in 2022, he again talked about faith and love.
“Anything I do is through God,” Combs said. “Anything I do is through love. That’s what I evolve to be. And that’s what I’m doing right now.”
Ventura was among the people he referenced.
“I’mma keep it a hundred with y’all, I was in a dark place for a few years,” Combs said, before thanking “Cassie for holding me down in the dark times. Love.”
“I’m afraid with Puff [Combs] walking from the most serious charges that he’s, not only him, the whole entire discourse, I just wonder what we’re going to learn from this,” Hampton told CNN after the verdict this week.
Whether the man who has gone by many names can truly change is yet uncertain. Regardless of the professional or personal accomplishments touted by his attorneys, Combs is now also a convicted felon.
His “bad boy for life” legacy seemingly solidified.
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