Jennifer Lopez talked abusive relationships earlier than ex Diddy’s residence raids

Celebrities

By Lauren Sarner

Love don’t value a factor. 

Within the wake of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ properties being raided on Monday, his outdated relationship with Jennifer Lopez is again within the highlight. 

Combs, 54, and Lopez, 54, dated for 2 years, from 1999 to 2001.

Lopez as soon as revealed how Combs was the primary man to cheat on her, telling Vibe magazine in 2003 that their relationship, “Was the primary time I used to be with somebody who wasn’t devoted. I used to be on this relationship with Puff the place I used to be completely crying, loopy and going nuts, it actually took my entire life in a tailspin.”

Lopez has since reunited with and married her different outdated flame, Ben Affleck.

However, in her 2024 documentary “The Best Love Story By no means Informed,” she spoke about previous abusive relationships — and followers have speculated that she was referring to Combs. 

“There have been folks in my life who stated ‘I really like you’ after which didn’t do issues that had been type of according to the phrase ‘love.’ Being thrown round and manhandled like that’s not enjoyable,” Lopez stated within the documentary, with out naming which ex she was referring to. 

“I imply, I used to be by no means in a relationship the place I obtained beat up, thank God, however I’ve positively been manhandled and a few different unsavory issues. Tough. Disrespectful.”

Followers on Reddit speculated, “Contemplating a bunch of allegations of P.Diddy are popping out… I ponder if there’s a connection between to talking out publicly now. Both manner I hope she’s doing higher now!”

A supply has denied to the Daily Mail that she was referring to Diddy. 

The Submit reached out to Lopez and Combs for remark. 

Diddy has confronted quite a few allegations of rape and abuse, which he has denied. 

Regulation enforcement sources instructed The Submit that feds moved in to raid Diddy’s properties on Monday as a result of they wished to grab his telephones and computer systems, as a part of an ongoing investigation.

Sources told Rolling Stone that at the very least 4 Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to the intercourse trafficking allegations and a racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations case, also called a RICO case.

The hip-hop mogul is being investigated for sex-trafficking, in keeping with regulation enforcement sources, allegations which his lawyer, Aaron Dyer, blasted as a “witch hunt.”

“Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level power as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences,” Dyer told TMZ on Tuesday. 

“This unprecedented ambush — paired with a sophisticated, coordinated media presence — results in a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt primarily based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” Dyer added.

Diddy was not arrested or charged “however spoke to and cooperated with authorities,” his lawyer stated. His journey has not been restricted in any manner, he added.

Diddy and Lopez had been famously arrested collectively in 1999. 

On Dec. 27 of that 12 months, Combs and Lopez  had been partying at Membership New York, when photographs had been fired at a battle that Diddy was concerned in, resulting in accidents from three clubgoers. 

Combs and Lopez left the scene in his automobile and obtained pulled over after operating a light-weight. Police discovered a gun within the automobile, which led to the couple getting arrested. 

Now-retired NYPD Detective Derrick Parker was on the Midtown South precinct once they had been introduced in.

“There have been all these high-profile attorneys barricaded within the station home ready to speak to the desk officer,” he recalled to The Submit.

He alleged: “That they had J.Lo handcuffed to a pole.”

“She was crying far and wide, within the squad room,” a police supply instructed the Daily News on the time. “She was simply upset about the entire thing.”

Lopez was absolved after reportedly being detained for 14 hours. 

Combs obtained indicted on two counts of prison possession of an unregistered gun and tried bribery for allegedly making an attempt to get his bodyguard, Anthony Jones, to assert the weapon was his, however he was later acquitted.

Speaking to CBS Sunday Morning in 2019, Lopez referred to as her relationship with Combs, “A loopy, heightened time” in her life. 

“You realize, Puffy and I each grew up within the Bronx,” she stated,” referring to how considered one of Diddy’s names was “Puff Daddy.”

She continued,”He had been within the music enterprise and had all this success. I used to be simply beginning and making my first album after I met him. He grew to become type of a mentor to me in that second. We had this sort of loopy, tumultuous relationship that resulted in a bang. It was positively a second however I felt prefer it was crucial. He was meant to be in my life at that second to show me what I wanted to know in regards to the music enterprise, about what sort of artist I wished to be within the music business.”

In 2003, she instructed Vibe journal that she left him as a result of, “I needed to assume, do I need to be residence with youngsters in 10 years questioning the place any person is at three within the morning?”

When requested if it was true that she used to knock on resort room doorways, looking for him amid his alleged infidelity, she stated, “I can’t bear in mind proper now, however I received’t say it didn’t occur. I by no means caught him [cheating], however I simply knew. He’d say he was going to a membership for a few hours after which by no means come again that night time.”