Reports abound that Sean “Diddy” Combs secretly recorded hundreds of hours of video footage from his infamous White Parties — bacchanalian orgies he called “Freak Offs.” These events allegedly featured A-list celebrities, who are supposedly straight and sober, engaging in drug-fueled homosexual activities.
The FBI reportedly seized those tapes when they arrested him last week. Now, names like Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Cuba Gooding Jr., J-Lo, Drake, Kim Kardashian, and LeBron James are sweating bullets, wondering if and when these tapes will leak online. (A no-name using a sex tape to gain celebrity is one thing; a big name getting caught on a sex tape is a different story.)
Most celebrities are staying conspicuously silent, but Usher and Justin Bieber’s actions speak volumes. Usher famously bragged about “seeing wild things” when he lived at Diddy’s mansion as a 14-year-old. But he wasted no time deleting all association with Diddy from his social media. Meanwhile, Bieber is “shutting down,” with friends saying he’s struggling to process what Diddy’s arrest portends.
The irony is that Diddy introduced Usher and Bieber to his freak offs as innocent victims. After all, both were way underage when their parents practically handed them over to Diddy—much like the parents who served up their kids to Michael Jackson back in the day.
Usher, however, has some ‘splainin’ to do. After all, he’s the one who led an underage Bieber into Diddy’s lair, knowing full well what goes down at these freak offs. So I hate to break it to Usher, but rushing to delete all Diddy posts only makes him look like a guilty man trying in vain to cover his tracks.
Finally, I’m waiting for Beyoncé to file for divorce, claiming that Jay-Z has been abusing and trafficking her the way Diddy had been with Cassie…
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