Usher saw ‘very curious things taking place’ at Diddy’s New York mansion when he was just 14
Usher claims he saw “very curious things taking place” at Diddy’s New York mansion when he was sent to live with him for a year at the age of just 14.
The singer was sent to “Puffy Flavor Camp” to “see the lifestyle” in the ’90s, he told Howard Stern in a resurfaced 2016 interview, where he asked the shock jock, “Do you understand what that’s like?”
Stern responded that he expected “the place was filled with chicks and orgying nonstop, right?”
Usher, now 45, initially responded “Not really” before adding: “I got a chance to see some things … I don’t know if I could indulge and even understand what I was looking at.”
“It was pretty wild. It was crazy. There were very curious things taking place and I didn’t necessarily understand it,” he said, laughing, adding that he felt like a little brother during the time he spent with the Bad Boy Records boss.
Asked whether he would send his own kids to Puffy Flavor Camp, Usher exclaimed: “Hell no!”
The interview has raised eyebrows after Diddy’s properties in LA and Miami were raided by federal agents investigating a sex-trafficking operation on Monday.
The raids come amid at least four lawsuits recently filed against Diddy, including allegations of assault and human trafficking, all of which he has denied.
In February, he was sued by former male employee Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, who accused the hitmaker of sexual assault while working on his 2023 album “The Love Album: Off the Grid.”
Jones claimed the alleged abuse occurred repeatedly from September 2022 to November 2023, according to TMZ.
Combs’ attorney, Shawn Holley, previously stated that “Lil Rod is nothing more than a liar” who is “shamelessly” seeking money with his $30 million lawsuit.
Here's what we know about the allegations against Sean "Diddy" Combs
- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security amid a possible connection with an ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- Authorities targeted the rapper’s homes to seize phones and computers, sources told The Post.
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023 on several allegations, including rape and physical abuse for over a decade.
- Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit one day after she filed it.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
- The lawsuit describes how Combs drove the alleged victim to a music studio “where she could not get out of the car” before taking her “to a place he was staying to sexually assault her.”
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
In November, “Come With Me” rapper Diddy’s ex-girlfriend Casandra Ventura — known as Cassie — was the first to accuse the dad of seven of rape and abuse. The case was settled out of court the very next day.
Combs was later hit with additional lawsuits from women claiming he sexually assaulted them.
His spokesperson said the allegations were “fabricated” and “nothing but a money grab.”
In the 2016 interview, Usher — who recently performed at the Super Bowl halftime show — rattled off some of the biggest names in hip-hop who were a constant presence at Diddy’s place, including Notorious B.I.G., Lil’ Kim, Faith Evans, Mary J. Blige and Craig Mack.
“He was always a family member from afar, so I never felt a disconnection,” he said when asked if there was bad blood after Diddy passed on being part of his second album, “My Way,” which went platinum in the late 1990s.
“I will always look at him like a brother,” he said.
