Accused sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs sacrificed a bird for good luck on his way to find out the outcome of his trial for the 1999 New York City nightclub shooting. His former bodyguard speaks in a new documentary.
While being driven to a Manhattan courthouse, the music mogul stopped in Central Park and encountered the mysterious man in a birdcage, says former muscleman Gene Diehl, who tells the story of the incident in a new Hulu documentary. he said. “The Honorable Mr. Shine.””
“When Puff approached the guy, he just fell to his knees,” Diehl said, using the nickname Combs was using at the time.
“The next thing I saw was this smoke going back and forth around the puff. I think it was sage or something.”
In the documentary, which began streaming on Monday, Diehl claimed that a man, holding a Bible, put his hand on Combs and told him to let the bird out of the cage.
“Puff caught this white bird and threw it up into the air… and it hit the ground like a brick,” Deal said. “I was like, 'Oh, it's gone!'”
“The bird is dead, man…the bird didn't move an inch. [Combs] I walked away from him really quickly. ”
After a seemingly ominous sign, Combs continued in court and was acquitted of all charges, including weapons possession and attempted bribery, after a seven-week trial.
His buddy, rapper Shine, who was the subject of the Hulu doc, was convicted of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a pistol and sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was then deported to his native Belize, where he is now a politician known as Moses Michael Levi Barrow.
Barrow has long accused the long-powerful tycoon of “destroying my life” and blamed Combs for causing him to fall in a shooting.
“While I was defending him, he turned around and called witnesses to testify against me,” he said recently. told Channel 5 News This was when he was still an “18 year old kid”.
“He almost sent me to prison…This is the person who destroyed my life,” Barrow said.
Two law enforcement officials told the Post earlier this year that the shooting could be reopened as part of a full federal investigation into Combs, now 54.
Combs remains in a federal prison in Manhattan on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation for the purpose of prostitution.
Federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami in March and seized hundreds of sex videos and mountains of sex paraphernalia, including 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube. The U.S. Attorney's Office argued that the sex parties he hosted were not necessarily consensual.
Additionally, he faces numerous civil lawsuits from numerous alleged victims. These include two cases from men who say they were minors, aged 10 and 17, when they were horribly raped by the R&B star.
Combs has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.
