The lavish, star-studded White Parties Sean “Diddy” Combs hosted for more than a decade had a darker underside according to accusers.
By Janay Kingsberry and Samantha Chery, The Washington PostMusic mogul and entrepreneur Sean"Diddy" Combs arrives at the Billboard Music Awards, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas.
Until recently, most of the accusations against Combs had focused on the alleged sex parties he called “freak-offs,” which have been at the center of a federal indictment by a grand jury in New York. Now his troubles have prompted a closer examination of the White Parties, which one accuser says had a sinister side from the very beginning.
And nothing did happen, at least to Combs’s public image. The mogul’s annual White Parties would become one of the hottest events of the year, growing into a 1,000-plus guest list that drew names as wide-ranging as Donna Karan, Anna Wintour, Jay-Z, Howard Stern, Sarah Jessica Parker, Moby, Al Sharpton, Salman Rushdie, Donald Trump and Aretha Franklin.
The White Parties were often heavily sponsored events - with brands such as Ciroc and Vitamin Energy printed on backdrops as celebrities walked the red carpet. At its most dramatic height in 2004, Combs arrived via helicopter carrying an original copy of the Declaration of Independence into the bash, which doubled as a kickoff event for his get-out-the-vote organization Citizen Change.
Another man who claims to have been assaulted at a White Party was working a last-minute security job for the event, according to court documents filed anonymously this week. R. Couri Hay, a publicist and social commentator, remembers the early days of the White Parties, when there were about 300 to 400 people spread along the twisty roads leading to Combs’s Hamptons home.
In 2009, he co-hosted a White Party with actor Ashton Kutcher in Beverly Hills to raise awareness for Malaria No More, a nonprofit working to eradicate malaria.
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