Diddy Set to Celebrate 40th Birthday

Sean "P Diddy" Combs is celebrating a milestone 40th birthday today in New York City, though his actual birthday is November 4th. Combs, CEO of Bad Boy Records and Sean John designer, will hold a star-studded party, featuring Spike Lee, Russell Simmons, Lil' Kim in midtown Manhattan at the Plaza Hotel's Grand Ballroom.

Combs' party will also feature a "very special" muscial guest.

In addition, P Diddy has invited all his fans to join the party, Combs will stream his party via Ptwittytv, his video channel, on Ustream.

Diddy Casino in Vegas?

A Diddy casino in the future? Sean Combs, the record producer, entrepreneur, designer and CEO of Bad Boy Records, when asked if he'd like to start a business in Las Vegas, said he would like to venture into the gaming industry.

"I would love to own a casino one day," Combs told Las Vegas Review-Journal's Doug Elfman.

Although, don't expect a Diddy casino anytime soon, its currently not on his radar.

"I don't want to get my plate too full."

Diddy's 'Making His Band' Premieres Tonight

Sean "Diddy" Combs premieres his latest reality show "Making His Band" tonight on MTV at 10PM ET/PT. Musicians (singers, drummers, guitarists, bassists and keyboardists) will compete for a spot on Diddy's national tour for his upcoming album "LAST TRAIN TO PARIS".

Diddy will be joined by judges -- Laurie Ann Gibson, world renowned choreographer, Om'Mas Keith, producer and lyricist, Rob Lewis, Nisan Stewart, musical director, and Romeo, former vocal coach to Michael Jackson.

MTV's Making His Band Trailer



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Joc in Court Today Over Stereo Equipment

Bad Boy's Yung Joc is due in court today, after the rapper allegedly stiffed a audio company approx. 25k in fees.

WSBTV reports..

Robinson [a.k.a. Yung Joc] and a company called "Stereotypes" are in fraud and contract disputes.The case surrounds the installation of high-end stereo equipment in Robinson's car.The company claimed Robinson did not pay the total for the services provided, nearly $25,000.

Elsewhere.. Vote Puffy into VIBE's Best Rapper Alive tournament.. Puffy is in the play-in battle against Jim Jones as the vie for the final spot in the field of 64 rappers.

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Bitchassness Reaches Level Orange

Diddy's new video, proclaims "Bitchassness alert level orange".. He goes on with a two-minute rant, talking about "haters" and hoping you have not been infected by the disease.

Diddy and Cassie End Their Relationship

Cassie has ended her relationship with Diddy, Cassie confirmed telling Us Magazine. Though, the two were still spotted together in NYC. Cassie is just the latest, whom's been rumored with Diddy.

omg Yahoo! reports,

"I will confirm that rumor," the 21-year-old told reporters who asked her to confirm split rumors at DJ Cassidy's birthday at Cipriani 23rd Street.

Though Cassie tells Us she's not seeing anyone special "right now," a party source spotted Diddy and Cassie "slipping out" together after the soiree ended.

Diddy Encourages You To Drive Safely

Checkout Diddy's PSA featuring Ciroc vodka in E!'s Drive Safe Campaign.



Diddy encourages drivers to get a designated driver when drinking. Drivers can text "Drive Safe" to 37373 from their wireless devices to receive taxi contact information in their area.

Checkout behind-the-scenes at E! Online.

Diddy Hangs With Will Smith

Diddy made an appearance at Will Smith's latest movie premiere "Hancock". Smith and Combs both caught together with their sons, Combs praised Smith by proclaiming, "Will Smith is my hero!"

LA Times Retracts Tupac-Diddy Story

It looks like LA Times has finally removed the story on the paper's website linking Diddy to Tupac's murder. The LA Times has already publicly apologized for the story, now it appears the paper has finally retracted the story. In a statement on the Times website, they publicly retracted because the article "relied heavily on information that the Times no longer believes to be credible."

MTV.com

"The Times has since concluded that the FBI reports were fabricated and that some of the other sources relied on — including the person Philips previously believed to be the 'confidential source' cited in the FBI reports — do not support major elements of the story," the paper explained in the retraction. Along with retracting the front-page Web story from March 17 and a shorter version that appeared in the actual paper on March 19, the Times also retracted the text of two online chats that Philips participated in on March 18 and March 25, and comments from the Times' Soundboard blog from March 21

It's good The Times finally taken the steps to retract this bogus story.

Diddy "Hurt" By LA Times Story

Sean "Diddy" Combs recently talked to MTV News about the story that appeared in the LA Times. The story linked Combs and Biggie Smalls to Tupac Shakur's death stating both, Combs and Biggie had prior knowledge to the murder. In the first public comments since the story, Combs told MTV News.

MTV.com

"I've been through so much; hip-hop has been through so much; Biggie's, Tupac's [families] have been through so much," Combs told MTV News.

"To rehash the lies and just rumors like that, I didn't understand where that was coming from. I knew that I would never -- me and Biggie would never be involved, or even have any knowledge of that. Because if we have knowledge of something, we the type of people that's gonna warn somebody, we're gonna tell somebody. It just really hurt."

"Just knowing how people in this day and age, what they read online and what they see in the papers, they just take it as fact," Diddy explained. "It's like, come on, I been working so hard to rise above all of this stuff, and to see it now trying to pull me back down.

"[But] I stayed focused," he continued. "I was still. My grandmother told me, 'Be still.' No matter what it feels like, be still. And I was still and then the truth came out the way it was to come out. I didn't jump up and down about it. I let them give the apology and let people go back to the things they need to be focusing on about me, which is the #1 albums I'm dropping with Danity Kane and Day26, #1 fragrances, Janelle Monae, making this black history. And that's what it's about. But it's important to really deal with things however they come at you. And I've always done that my whole life and just always told the truth."

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Combs Talks About Single Parent Upbringing

So ladies? Is there something to Sean "Diddy" Combs being a single bachelor? Looks like there might be. Combs said, he "doesn't know marriage works."

Combs recently told a paper

"I don't know how marriage works. If you're raised by a married couple, you see how they interact; their good days, their bad days, how they work through things - you see the love. I wasn't brought up like that and I still don't know to do it. I never saw (my parents') relationship up-close, so every time I've been in a relationship I haven't known what to do and that's really scared me."

Nonetheless that would be understandable. And, plus when you have so many fine looking ladies around, commitment comes a little harder.

Diddy Upset With People Magazine

The NY Post's Page Six reports Sean "Diddy" Combs is upset with People Magazine. Combs reportedly didn't take to kind to his twins [D'Lila Star and Jessie James] being published in the back of the magazine and J-Lo's twins published on the cover and large layout.

An insider told Page Six..

"It was the last straw for Diddy," a person close to Combs said. "They gave him lousy placement [in the Feb. 12, 2007] issue when Kim [Porter] had his twins, D'Lila Star and Jessie James."

A Combs' rep denied the article stating, "Sean loves People magazine and all the wonderful coverage they have given him over the years."

LA Times Sorry About Tupac-Combs Story

The LA Times newspaper has issued Sean Combs an apology. That after the paper published forged documents linking Combs to Tupac Shakur's murder. The articles writer, Chuck Phillips, and Times editor, Russ Stanton apology appeared on the paper's front page.

Philips wrote he was "sorry" and admitted: "In relying on documents that I now believe were fake, I failed to do my job."

Meanwhile, editor Russ Stanton said: "We published this story with the sincere belief that the documents were genuine, but our good intentions are beside the point."

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Diddy-Tupac Murder Link - All A Big Lie

Wow! This is a interesting story, The Smoking Gun published concerning the Tupac-Diddy murder link. According TSG, the information the LA Times story was based off of were fabricated FBI documents. The source of the LA Times story, federal convict, James Sabatino, supplied the Times with false statements and forged documents.

It was only a week ago the paper published, "FBI records recently obtained by The Times." Well only if we knew those documents were forged, and the story was trash from the beginning. Maybe, the well-paid journalist at the Times next time will be more thorough when they receive any sensitive documents or records.

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Diddy Settles Suit With Partygoer

It appears Sean Combs has settled a suit filed by a partygoer out of court. Gerard Rechnitzer alleges Combs assaulted him at a post-Oscar party, previously LA District Attorney declined to file charges against Combs.

TMZ.com reports..

Combs' lawyers filed a document in Los Angeles on Friday indicating the case had settled, but the terms were not disclosed.

It has sounded from the beginning this suit had no merit, and would be settled out court.

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LA Times Writer Defends Story

After Sean Combs and Jimmy Rosemond rejected the story that linked them both to Tupac Shakur's death. LA Times writer, Chuck Phillips defended his published story on Tupac/Bad Boy link.

From Rolling Stone...
The writer of the Los Angeles Times exposé on a 1994 Tupac Shakur shooting has defended the article despite denials by both Sean “Diddy” Combs and James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond. In a live chat on the Los Angeles Times website, Chuck Phillips said he didn’t seek out the story -- which alleged two Bad Boy Records associates were behind the ‘94 robbery and shooting of Shakur -- but that he “stumbled on it last year after learning the street names of the assailants.”

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Diddy May Face $150 Million Dollar Suit

MTV News is reporting, Bad Boy Entertainment and it's CEO Sean "Diddy" Combs is among listed parties of an $130 million dollar civil suit. Combs recently completed his deposition on the December 1999 NYC shooting. The judge must still decide rather the suit will go to trial and which parties will then follow.

From MTV News,
After nearly two years, Sean "Diddy" Combs completed his deposition last week in the $130 million civil lawsuit stemming from the 1999 Club New York shooting that sent the Bad Boy CEO's former protégé, Shyne, to prison, MTV News has learned. According to Shyne's legal counsel, Oscar Michelen, Diddy completed his deposition on Wednesday, which now puts the wheels in motion for a trial date to be set, possibly as soon as early 2009. Diddy's busy schedule, along with litigation from the charges against Shyne, resulted in the hip-hop mogul's deposition being stretched out over time. Bad Boy employee Derek Ferguson is the next and last party scheduled for deposition, Michelen said.

Combs' lawyers responded to the story telling MTV News.

"Mr. Combs was acquitted by a jury of all charges related to this 1999 incident and we are confident that he will prevail in this civil lawsuit," an e-mail sent to MTV News read.

More to come.

Combs Denies Tupac Link

Sean "Diddy" Combs and Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond quickly responded to the published LA Times story. Combs and Rosemond both blasted the story and denied any connection..

Sean "Diddy" Combs and manager Jimmy "Henchman" Rosemond issued quick and angry denials about an L.A. Times report released Monday morning claiming they were behind the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur at Quad Recording Studios in Times Square.

"This story is beyond ridiculous and is completely false," Diddy said in a statement Monday. "Neither Biggie [Smalls, the rapper at the center of Combs' Bad Boy Productions company] nor I had any knowledge of any attack before, during, or after it happened. It is a complete lie to suggest that there was any involvement by Biggie or myself. I am shocked that the Los Angeles Times would be so irresponsible as to publish such a baseless and completely untrue story."

Rosemond, now CEO of Czar Entertainment, said in a statement, "in the past 14 years, I have not even been questioned by law enforcement with regard to the assault of Tupac Shakur, let alone brought up on charges."

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Puffy Connection to Tupac's Death?

The Los Angeles Times reports an apparent connection between Sean Combs and Tupac Shakur's death. The Times goes in-depth of the murder of Shakur.. Here is an excerpt

Now, newly discovered information, including interviews with people who were at the studio that night, lends credence to Shakur's insistence that associates of rap impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs were behind the assault. Their alleged motives: to punish Shakur for disrespecting them and rejecting their business overtures and, not incidentally, to curry favor with Combs.

The information focuses on two New York hip-hop figures -- talent manager James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond and promoter James Sabatino, who is now in prison for unrelated crimes.

FBI records obtained recently by The Times say that a confidential informant told authorities in 2002 that Rosemond and Sabatino "set up the rapper Tupac Shakur to get shot at Quad Studios." The informant said Sabatino had told him that Shakur "had to be dealt with."

The records -- summaries of FBI interviews with the informant conducted in July and December 2002 -- provide details of how Shakur was lured to the studio and ambushed. Others with knowledge of the incident corroborated the informant's account in interviews with The Times and gave additional details.

One would think, any information from informants has to be called into question.. Especially with the unknown backgrounds of the individuals.. We'll follow it for any further developments.

Diddy's New Venture; Transporting Your Favorite Celebrity

What more can Diddy get himself into? The entrepreneur and Bad Boy CEO is looking to expand his business portfolio into the chauffeur business, transporting A-list celebrities from after parties and clubs.. Now, I am sure Diddy will have pimped out rides but really? Do A-list celebrities really need this? They already have like millions of dollars and people to do these things.. Although, I do appalled Diddy's efforts to keep the good people like Paris Hilton outta jail!

From US Magazine
The mogul plans to launch a car service for A-listers too tipsy to drive after a night out, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now. "After partnering with Ciroc vodka, he wants to make sure everyone's partying responsibly," his rep tells Us. One campaign goal? "Making sure nobody gets arrested!" Combs, the father of twins, says.