The editor of a music journal on Friday turned the newest lady to accuse embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of violent habits, claiming he’d threatened to see her “dead in the trunk of a car” over a 1997 editorial dispute.
Combs is at present dealing with a number of lawsuits alleging sexual assault and bodily abuse, in addition to an ongoing federal legal investigation into his alleged involvement in intercourse trafficking.
“Combs and I worked together a lot,” Danyel Smith, then-editor-in-chief at Vibe journal, wrote in The New York Occasions. “Competed, in our way. So often I thought I came out on top. I was mistaken. I had reason to fear for my life. What happened was insidious. It broke my brain. I forgot the worst of it for 27 years.”
Smith recalled wanting Combs on the quilt of Vibe’s December 1997/January 1998 subject in white, feathered wings. The photograph shoot in September went swimmingly, however the aftermath proved disturbing.
“Combs wanted to see the Vibe covers before they went to press,” Smith wrote Friday. “It wasn’t our policy to show covers before publication, so after I told him no, we heard that he planned to come to our office and force us to show him.”
Smith recalled staffers hashing out a plan to maintain her secure from Combs. By then, the rap mogul had been discovered responsible in 1996 of threatening a New York Publish reporter with a gun — and “was also busy denying that he had something to do with the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur.”
Smith recalled grabbing her stack of canopy proofs depicting Combs when he arrived on the Vibe places of work and dashing them to her managing editor earlier than leaping right into a cab to flee.
Combs resumed his efforts the very subsequent day. Smith stated she politely refused to indicate him the quilt when he referred to as to demand seeing it.
“It was then that Combs told me, as I’ve retold hundreds of times over the years, that he would see me ‘dead in the trunk of a car,’” she wrote Friday. “Not missing a beat, I told him he needed to take that threat back. ‘Take it back,’ I said, sounding as if I were 10.”
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“‘Take what back?’ Then, with a vile laugh, ‘[Expletive] you,’” Smith continued. “‘Take it back now,’ I said. ‘Or I’m calling my lawyer, and you’re going to jail.’ He said: ’I know where you are right now. Right on Lexington [Avenue].”
Combs refused remark to the New York Occasions; HuffPost has since reached out.
Smith recalled that, whereas he faxed over an apology inside hours, the journal’s pc servers went lacking just a few days later. Thankfully, a staffer had saved an early model of their upcoming subject on a private disk, and the quilt went to print.
Combs has now been accused by at the least seven girls who got here ahead with sexual abuse claims after his ex-girlfriend, singer Cassie, sued him for rape in October. Combs denied any wrongdoing however settled the go well with for an undisclosed sum inside 24 hours.
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