Followers of Jennifer Lopez, desperate to get her autograph, have been reportedly left disenchanted final weekend when she’s stated to have abruptly ended a signing after somebody within the crowd requested her about Sean “Diddy” Combs, her long-ago ex-boyfriend, and the intercourse trafficking allegations in opposition to him.
Lopez had been attending a screening and Q&A for her new movie, “Unstoppable,” at AFI Fest 2024 in Los Angeles, the Mirror US reported. The screening occurred on Saturday, and the faculty sports activities drama was produced by Lopez’s estranged husband, Ben Affleck, and his manufacturing firm with Matt Damon.
However throughout an autograph occasion for “Unstoppable,” Lopez confronted an uncomfortable query about one other well-known ex, the Mirror stated. Because the singer and actor was trying to greet followers, somebody within the crowd requested, “J. Lo, do you have any comments about P. Diddy and the allegations?”
Lopez instantly stopped signing autographs, The Mirror reported. She and her staff started to maneuver away from the gang. Folks within the crowd referred to as after her, “Don’t leave,” however she headed out the door, “out of sight,” The Mirror stated.
This uncomfortable second comes as Lopez is within the strategy of divorcing Affleck. In the meantime, she continues to stay silent concerning the disturbing sexual assault allegations in opposition to Combs, whom she dated from 1999 to 2001. The music mogul and Dangerous Boy Data founder has been locked up in federal detention since September and faces trial on intercourse trafficking and racketeering conspiracy fees.
377894 22: (FILE PHOTO) Jennifer Lopez and Sean “Puffy” Combs arrive for the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards September 7, 2000 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis. On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2001, Combs” spokesperson introduced that Lopez and Combs have been now not a pair. The introduced confirmed months of hypothesis over demise of the superstars” relationship. (Photograph by George De Sota/Newsmakers)
Combs additionally has been hit with greater than 20 lawsuits from ladies and men, who declare that he and his alleged accomplices sexually assaulted them after they attended his notorious events.
Lopez has confronted scrutiny over her relationship with Combs since his Sept. 16 arrest. Allegations within the lawsuits cowl incidents that started within the Nineties and continued by 2022, with some allegedly happening in the course of the time that Lopez and Combs have been a high-flying movie star couple.
Maybe most uncomfortable for Lopez are the allegations that got here in a federal lawsuit filed final week. A 37-year-old lady alleges that, as a 13-year-old lady, she was sexually assaulted by Combs — with the assistance of an unnamed female and male movie star — at a celebration the mogul hosted after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards. Whereas the lawsuit didn’t establish Combs’ alleged movie star accomplices, Lopez was Combs’ date for the 2000 VMAs, and he or she gained the award that September night time for finest dance video.
This week, lately unearthed pictures have been printed within the Day by day Mail, purporting to point out Lopez and Combs attending a star-studded afterparty for the 2000 VMAs. The awards ceremony occurred on Sept. 7, 2000 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor in New York Metropolis, whereas the afterparty was held on the now-defunct Lotus nightclub.
The pictures present Lopez and Combs in a heated confrontation, with Lopez showing to yell on the rapper, the Day by day Mail stated. A visitor on the social gathering advised the Day by day Mail that the spat ended with Combs making an exit from the nightclub together with his entourage and a bunch of girls.
The alleged assault on the 13-year-old lady apparently occurred later that night time at a home. The Day by day Mail stated that the timing of the assault provides “a troubling layer” to the night’s occasions and raises questions concerning the dynamics of Lopez and Combs’ relationship, throughout a time now overshadowed by severe allegations.
In 1999, Lopez grew to become embroiled in one other felony controversy involving Combs. They have been arrested in December of that 12 months whereas fleeing a Manhattan nightclub after a taking pictures, which left three individuals injured. Combs was placed on trial in 2001 for the taking pictures, and Lopez testified, however Combs was acquitted by a jury.
Through the years, Lopez hasn’t stated an excessive amount of about her relationship with Combs, although she described it as “tempestuous” and “emotionally exhausting” in the direction of the top. She additionally stated they broke up “many times,” would get again collectively, then break up once more.
Lopez’s first husband, Ojani Noa, whom the mega-star met and married simply as her profession was taking off, has lately blamed Combs for the breakup of their marriage in 1998 after 11 months.
In an interview with Univision, Noa, a Cuban immigrant who met Lopez whereas working as a waiter in Miami, stated, “Part of that divorce was Diddy’s fault.”
“When Sony came and paid her the millions she got, there was Puffy (Combs), who was going to be one of the producers of several tracks on (her) first album, ‘On The 6,’” Noa advised the outlet in Spanish, in line with Web page Six. “That’s where the deception, the lies, the separation started.”
