Disturbing anecdotes about Sean Diddy Combs ‘Puffy Flavour Camp’ for teen boys

A top music executive regrets sending then 15-year-old Usher to live with accused sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs revealing he hoped at the time to make the young musician “edgier”.

A top music executive spoke of his remorse over sending a baby-faced Usher to go and live with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The resurfaced anecdote from a memoir published eight years before the 54-year-old rapper was charged with sex trafficking adds to the growing body of claims which suggest people have been attempting to sound the alarm about Combs’ antics for years.

X Factor judge L.A. Reid signed young Usher to his label in 1993 when the music artist was just 14 and helped him release his debut single Call Me a Mack.

Sean 'Diddy' Combs and Usher pictured in 2017. Picture: Getty Images.

Reid, who is himself fighting a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and assault of

a former employee, wrote that it was “irresponsible” to send Usher to live with Combs in what he referred to as “Puffy Flavour Camp” in New York in a bid to make the teen “edgy”.

“Usher was 15-years-old, but nothing about him ever seemed juvenile,“ Reid wrote in his 2016 book Sing To Me: My Story Of Making Music, Finding Magic And Searching For Who’s Next.

“I was turning him over to the wildest party guy in the country at an age when I still needed to get his mother’s permission, but he went to New York for almost a year.

Usher, seen here in 2000, has said he would never allow his children to experience the same kind of lifestyle. Picture: WireImage.

“I didn’t know whether I was being irresponsible or having an epiphany. I would never be sure flavour camp worked until he came back.”

When asked about the experience on The Howard Stern Show when the book was released, Usher emphatically stated his own four children would be having no such experience.

“Hell no,” Usher said.

Usher also elaborated on his time living with Combs in a 2004 interview with Rolling Stone.

“(He introduced me to) a totally different set of s*** — sex, specifically,” Usher said.

“Sex is so hot in the industry, man. There was always girls around. You’d open a door and see somebody doing it, or several people in a room having an orgy.

“You never knew what was going to happen.”

The revelations come as disturbing video has resurfaced sparking speculation Combs was checking singer Justin Bieber for a wire.

In the footage, believed to be filmed in 2021 when Bieber was 27, Combs gives Bieber multiple pats on the back and chest.

“Diddy appears to be checking Justin Bieber to see if he is wearing a wire in this video,” a user on X who shared the video wrote.

Fellow X users who viewed the footage agreed.

“Definitely,” wrote one user, while others said simply, “yes”. “yes”.

Sean Diddy Combs and Justin Bieber in a resurfaced video.

The music mogul was indicted last month on three criminal counts that allege he sexually abused women and coerced them into drug-fuelled sex parties using threats and violence.

Bieber is said to be “disgusted” by the allegations against Diddy, who was a mentor early on in his career.

According to a source cited in the US Weekly, Bieber has been “advised to stay as far away as possible from anything and everything related to Diddy”.

In this courtroom sketch, Sean "Diddy" Combs defence lawyer Marc Agnifilo, left, addresses the judge while Combs, seated second from right, in prison uniform, watches in Federal court, in New York. Combs' new defence lawyer, Anthony Ricco is seated far right. Picture: Elizabeth Williams via AP

In this courtroom sketch, Sean "Diddy" Combs, left, upon entering the courtroom hugs his lawyer Anthony Ricco prior to the hearing in Federal court in New York. Picture: Elizabeth Williams via AP

In this courtroom sketch, Sean "Diddy" Combs, right, in shackles, gestures to his mother, seated in the audience far left, who is blowing kisses to him following his hearing in federal court in New York. Picture: Elizabeth Williams via AP

It comes as a date has been set for Combs’s racketeering and sex trafficking trial.

Federal Judge Arun Subramanian set May 5 as the start date for the proceedings and noted that the “defendant will remain in custody” since no new requests had been filed by his lawyers after Combs was twice denied bail.

The Combs family departs from the Southern District of New York Federal Court after a pre-trial hearing for Sean 'Diddy' Combs in New York City. Picture: Getty Images via AFP

The 54-year-old rapper is simultaneously being sued in civil court by more than 100 people, including 25 minors at the time of the events, who accuse him of sexual assault, according to their lawyers.

As he entered the courtroom, Combs, wearing a light-coloured wrinkled shirt and pants, greeted his mother and children who were attending the hearing.

Combs’ son Justin Dior, back left, one of his twin daughter’s, front left, and Combs mother Janice, far right. Picture: Getty Images

Prosecutor Emily Johnson said there was still more evidence to explore, noting that 96 electronic devices had been seized in March and that more charges were possible.

Allegations have been building against the Grammy Award-winner since last year, when singer Cassie, whose real name is Casandra Ventura, alleged Combs subjected her to more than a decade of coercion by physical force and drugs as well as a 2018 rape.

Lawyer Marc Agnifilo for hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy Combs exits Manhattan federal court. Picture: AP

A spate of similarly lurid lawsuits since have painted a picture of Combs as a violent man who used his celebrity status to prey on women.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges. He has been jailed awaiting trial.

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