Sean “Diddy” Combs' children broke their silence Tuesday following his arrest on sex crimes charges earlier this month, but did not address the allegations against their father.
Instead, Combs' children released a statement decrying the “horrifying conspiracy theories” swirling about their late mother, Kim Porter, the disgraced hip-hop mogul's ex-wife.
“We have seen so many hurtful and false rumors circulating about our parents, Kim Porter and Sean Combs' relationship, and the tragic death of our mother, that we feel the need to speak out,” Quincy Brown, Christian, Jesse and Delilah Combs said in a joint statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday night.
Porter, a former model, and Combs dated on and off from 1994 to 2007. The couple have one son, Christian, now 26, and twin daughters, Jesse and Delilah, now 17.
Porter had her first child, 33-year-old son Quincy, with her ex-husband, singer Al B. Combs then adopted Quincy when he was just three years old.
The children's statements A memoir full of typos that Porter claims to have written He died suddenly in 2018 at age 47 from lobar pneumonia.
The siblings slammed the 59-page so-called memoir, which was self-published by the self-proclaimed investigative journalist under a pseudonym on September 6, as 100 percent fake.
“The allegation that our mother wrote the book is completely false. She did not write it. Anyone claiming to have the manuscript is making nothing but false claims,” the statement read.
The autobiography, titled “Kim's Lost Words: A Journey to Seek Justice from the Other Side…,” is currently ranked number one on Amazon's best-seller list. It costs $25 to buy and is listed as written by Jamal T. Millwood, a pseudonym used by Tupac according to conspiracy theorists who claim he is still alive.
This book is written by He told Rolling Stone magazine He wasn't sure if that was true, and allegations of domestic violence by Combs, including from his former girlfriend, singer Cassandra “Cathy” Ventura, have led to social media swirling with suspicions and conspiracy theories about Porter's untimely death.
Her children quickly denied the rumors in a statement.
“It has been extremely difficult to accept that she was taken from us so soon, but the cause of her death was long ago determined. There was no foul play,” they wrote.
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They lashed out at those who spread the rumours.
“We are deeply saddened that the world has made a spectacle of the most tragic event of our lives,” the siblings wrote. “Our mother should be remembered as the beautiful, strong, kind and loving woman she was. Her memory should not be tainted by terrifying conspiracy theories.”
The children would not comment on the charges their father is currently facing, who is serving his sentence at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
Combs was arrested last week and charged with organized crime conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation of prostitution.
He has pleaded not guilty but was denied bail on charges he sexually abused women at the height of his career in the 1990s and early 2000s.
