Five Former Employees Accuse Diddy of Abusive Behavior

Five of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ former employees have spoken out about his allegedly abusive tendencies during their time working for him.

The individuals, who were employed across Combs’ ex-lifestyle brand, Sean John, and his now-closed advertising agency, Blue Flame, claimed the billionaire exhibited “erratic” behavior as their boss in an exposé published by the Daily Beast this week.

One woman, who chose to remain anonymous, told the Daily Beast that Diddy grabbed her face following a disagreement. He claimed he “didn’t like” that she “wasn’t agreeing with him” and “wasn’t interested in hearing [her] point of view.”

She also claimed Combs would often compare himself to designer Karl Lagerfeld.

“When you speak to me, you should imagine that you’re talking to Karl Lagerfeld. Anything I say, assume that it’s coming from Karl Lagerfeld,” she recalled him allegedly telling her.

The former Sean John employee further alleged that Combs, 54, began yelling and then grabbed her face.

“At that point, I didn’t have a response to that, and he reaches out and he grabs my face. He puts one hand on both sides of my cheeks and says, ‘Stick out your tongue,’ and then he squeezes my face harder and yells at me to stick out my tongue, forces his hands on my face.”

Another former staffer claimed he was allegedly fired after making eye contact with Combs.

“There was erratic behavior, there was definitely what I would consider mental abuse, [with] how he spoke to us as employees,” he alleged, adding that he often worked from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. due to the “culture of fear” Combs created in the workplace. The ex-employee also described “a lot of profanity, kind of aggressive, in-your-face—physically in your face—kind of stuff.”

Combs’ dark past came to light last November when ex-girlfriend Cassie filed a lawsuit against him, accusing him of rape and physical abuse throughout their 10-year relationship. The Bad Boy Records founder and the “Me & U” singer settled the lawsuit the next day. In May, hotel video surveillance of Combs punching and kicking Cassie in March 2016 was released by CNN. Diddy subsequently apologized for the incident, saying he was “disgusted” by his actions.