After P. Diddy’s arrest in Manhattan, targeted by accusations of sexual assault, the American media delved into the rapper’s romantic past. And returned to a romance forgotten by all: that of the singer and JLo.
Their romance was like a real roller coaster. After P. Diddy’s arrest in Manhattan on Monday, September 16 following accusations of sexual assault, the American media delved into the rapper’s romantic past. And remembered a romance that had been forgotten for a while. That of Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jennifer Lopez, at the heart of a relationship that was, to say the least, stormy, from 1999 to 2001. A story so stormy that it almost made the Bennifers’ thunderous divorce seem like a story of choirboys.
Gunshots fired in nightclub
Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy attend the Grammy Awards. (Los Angeles, February 23, 2000.) Abaca
It all started in 1999, on the set of the video for “If You Had My Love”, one of the singer’s hits. Puff Daddy and JLo fell under each other’s spell. A year later, the two artists walked the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, where she posed in her legendary jungle dress, signed Versace. They were also seen at the MTV Video Music Awards, or in the front row of the fashion shows. However, by the end of 1999, the couple had found themselves at the heart of a stunning news story.
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In December, Jennifer Lopez and P. Diddy went to Club New York, alongside Anthony “Wolf” Jones, the singer’s bodyguard, and rapper Jamal “Shyne” Barrow. The four of them found themselves involved in a conflict that took place in the middle of the nightclub. That evening, gunshots rang out in the establishment. According to Forbes P. Diddy, JLo and Anthony then allegedly fled, pursued by the police. Before being arrested by the authorities, who found a stolen revolver in their vehicle.
“My whole life has gone to hell”
The rapper and his girlfriend were then accused of possession of weapons and bribery. But the charges against JLo were quickly dropped. P. Diddy was acquitted in 2001. The couple nevertheless ended up breaking up in February 2001, amid rumors of infidelity. If the singer ofI’ll Be Missing You has never publicly discussed these speculations, his ex-partner has spoken to the media about this subject over the years. In a interview granted to Rolling Stonethe year of their separation, Jennifer Lopez simply revealed that the singer “liked to go out”, while she herself was more of a “homebody”.
But two years later, she decided to open up more in the columns of Vibe. She says she never “caught him in the act,” but she’s certain that Diddy was unfaithful. “He said he’d go clubbing for a few hours and not come back all night,” she recalls. “That was the first time I’d ever dated someone who wasn’t faithful. I was in this relationship with Puff where I was crying, I was going crazy, and my whole life was going to hell.”
The Guadalupe Rodriguez Reserves
After their breakup, the two artists nevertheless maintained a good relationship. In 2017, Sean “Diddy” Combs said that JLo was “without a doubt” one of the great loves of his life. The two also hugged in 2018, backstage at a performance by the pop star in Las Vegas. But while some had hoped for a time that the couple would reconnect, Jennifer Lopez’s mother, Guadalupe Rodriguez, was firmly opposed to it.
Recently, a video of the latter, who attended the “Wendy Williams Show” in 2015, has indeed resurfaced on the web. The host told her guest, Jennifer Lopez, that she could see her falling back into P. Diddy’s arms: a comment that at the time sparked laughter from the artist… except from her mother. In the audience, we saw Guadalupe launch a quick “It’s over”, brushing the idea aside.
Perhaps the latter remembered that famous night at the nightclub, after which she allegedly went to the police station to find her daughter. That evening, she allegedly “yelled at him in Spanish” and told him: “I told you not to go out with him,” as a retired police officer recounted to New York Post . Two decades later, the rapper, recently arrested, is the target of nine complaints, including one for sexual assault. His former partner “Cassie” Ventura accuses him, for her part, of having had “violent” and “deviant” behavior towards her. Allegations that he has always refuted.
