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 public record that Jaden Smith had made such an announcement. The website where the article appeared has posted dozens of other dubious celebrity and clickbait articles that, when clicked, redirect users to ads for downloadable pop-up blockers.
The claim originated in a post shared on Facebook on October 1, 2024, (archived here). The post said:
Jaden Smith FINALLY Admits He and Justin Bieber Were M0LE$T3D By Diddy and Will Smith
This is how the post looked at the time of the publication of this fact check:
(Source: Facebook screenshot taken Weds Oct 2 20:07:04 2024 UTC)
Using keywords from the claim, Lead Stories searched Google News, which aggregates reports from thousands of reliable news and information sites. No official documents or credible reporting were found to corroborate the claim. The search results can be seen here (archived here).
Similarly, as of this publication, no such statement had been shared on Jaden Smith's verified official social media outlets, including Instagram, Facebook (archived here), YouTube (archived here), X (archived here) and TikTok (archived here).
(Source: Instagram screenshot takenWeds Oct 2 20:29:50 2024 UTC)
The post on Facebook claiming Smith had accused his father and Combs of molestation linked to an article without verification published on October 1, 2024 (archived here). The post's caption followed the article's headline verbatim. It provided no further information to support Smith's supposed announcement, such as a link to his statement or when the announcement was made.
Furthermore, online AI-detection tool Hive Moderation determined that the article was 99.9 percent "likely to contain AI Generated Text':
(Source: Hive Moderation screenshot taken Weds Oct 2 19:46:39 2024 UTC
The article was published on the website foralldaily.com, which, at the time of this fact check's publication, no longer had a live home page. It redirected to an ad for the computer product Universal Ad Blocker.
A screenshot of the website can be seen below. It included other clickbait articles with unsubstantiated claims about celebrities. These included headlines like "Taylor Swift Dragged Into Scandal as Diddy Exposes the Dark Side of Showbiz" (archived here) and "Undercover Agent EXPOSES P Diddy 'What He Did To Jaden Smith Is Horrible' (VIDEO)" (archived here).
Here is a screenshot of images and text as they appeared on the site on October 2, 2024:
(Source: foralldaily.com screenshot taken Weds Oct 2 19:36:23 2024 UTC
When clicked, the website links redirected users to advertisements for computer-product extensions like Universal Ad Blocker, which can be seen below:
(Source: Popblockergold.com screenshot taken Weds Oct 2 19:30:09 2024 UTC)
The account (archived here) that posted the article on Facebook also shared dozens of other links to foralldaily.com articles that made similarly uncorroborated claims.
Since Combs' September 16, 2024, arrest on (archived here) on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation for purposes of prostitution, Lead Stories has debunked a claim that Will Smith allegedly "gave" his son to Combs for the rapper's "freak off" parties. We also have disproven a claim that a supposed sex tape of the elder Smith and Combs has been leaked.
Other Lead Stories fact checks of claims about Sean "Diddy" Combs can be found here and about Will Smith here. Our general debunks of claims about celebrities can be read here.
