Does a photo authentically show rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs' home being destroyed by the January 2025 Los Angeles fires? No, that's not true: This is not Combs' house. Rather, the photo shows an Ohio mansion that burned down in 2014, predating the Los Angeles fires by over a decade. As of January 13, 2025, Lead Stories found no evidence that…
Does a video authentically show "new footage leaked" of music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs riding a "dirt bike" in prison? No, that's not true: The video clip in this social media post began circulating on Instagram several months before Combs' September 2024 arrest. A Federal Bureau of Prisons representative told Lead Stories that this claim is false, saying, "No incarcerated…
Did Sean "Diddy" Combs pay Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff $500,000 for a tip that alerted him to the police raids that were about to search his homes in Florida and California, according to a video with an article? No, that's not true: The federal government announced that "Russian influence actors" manufactured the video. The article was published…
Does a photo show that Kamala Harris and Sean "Diddy" Combs posed together at a party? No, that's not true: This photo has been edited. The original photo from 2019 was taken at Combs' 50th birthday party, where Combs was standing next to fashion designer Misa Hylton. In the edited version of the photo, Hylton's face has been replaced with…
Did musician Jaden Smith announce that his father, actor Will Smith, and rapper mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs "molested" pop singer Justin Bieber and him, as a post on Facebook claimed? No, that's not true: The article on the website that initially published this story appears to have been written using AI tools. As of October 2, 2024, there was no…
Does a video authentically show Sean "Diddy" Combs speaking from prison in 2024? No, that's not true: The video clip in this social media post is from 2010. The primary topic of the full video was the impact of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) on the X platform on September 25, 2024,…
Does a photo on Facebook actually show rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs seated next to former President Donald Trump and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as the two men snuggle with young women? No, that's not true: A previous fact check by Lead Stories determined that another version of the photo that did not include Combs was likely AI-generated.…
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