Freshly indicted Sean “Diddy” Combs faced a trial in New York City more than 20 years ago for firing off a gun inside a Manhattan club — but he was acquitted by a jury at the time.
Combs, then 31, went before a jury in Manhattan Supreme court over a shooting at the Club New York on West 43rd Street on Dec. 29, 1999 that left three clubgoers injured.
The music mogul was accused of firing a shot into the ceiling of the Midtown dance club and then trying to bribe his chauffeur, Wardel Fenderson, to take the blame for a second gun found inside a getaway car he shared with his then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez.
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- Sean “Diddy” Combs’ homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security in March amid a possible 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.
- 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 September 2024, Diddy was sued by Dawn Richard, a participant on Combs’ 2004 MTV show “Making The Band,” claiming that he once broke into her dressing room and began groping her breasts and butt.
During his testimony, Combs told jurors he only fired the gun in self-defense.
“I thought I was being shot at,” he said from the witness stand at the time.
Combs and his bodyguard, Anthony “Wolf” Jones, who was also charged, were later found not guilty.
The jury deliberated for 22 hours before handing down the verdict on March 16, 2001.
Combs had been facing up to 15 years in prison if convicted on the top charges in the nightclub shooting.
Meanwhile, young rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow – who was also embroiled in the ordeal — was convicted of first-degree assault for shooting two bystanders.
Barrow dodged an attempted murder conviction.
Details of Combs’ first brush with the law resurfaced after the embattled rapper and hip-hop mogul was charged Tuesday with sex-trafficking and racketeering charges over alleged abuse he inflicted on women for more than a decade.
The indictment alleges, in part, that he carried guns to “intimidate and threaten” his victims and those who witnessed the abuse.
When the feds raided his Miami and Los Angeles mansions roughly six months ago as part of the long-running sex-trafficking probe, they seized three AR-15s with “defaced serial numbers”, as well as other guns, ammunition and a drum magazine, the filing alleges.
Combs has long denied the accusations against him and his lawyer said he would plead not guilty to the latest charges.
Additional reporting by Emily Crane