Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ Bodyguard Said Diddy Acted Suspicious the Week Before the Notorious B.I.G.’s Death
Sean “Diddy” Combs was with the Notorious B.I.G. on the night he died. He worked with the artist for years, and said he was looking forward to his future in music. Combs has also said that he feels some level of responsibility for Biggie’s death. His former bodyguard, Gene Deal, took it a step further. He wondered if Combs might have had something to do with Biggie’s death.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ bodyguard believes Combs could have something to do with the Notorious B.I.G.’s death
Shortly before Biggie’s death, he attended a party with Combs. They left in separate cars and, at a stoplight, another driver pulled up and began firing bullets into Biggie’s car. Combs and Deal rushed him to the hospital. Doctors pronounced him dead later that night.
Deal recalled Combs looking “stunned” once they arrived at the hospital, but he wondered if he knew more than he was letting on.
“So did he directly have something to do with it?” he said in the documentary Diddy: The Making of a Bad Boy. “He could have.”
Upon reflection, Deal alleged that Combs seemed anxious the week before Biggie’s death.
“The week which Biggie was murdered he was just acting real anxious and trying to get Big at this party,” Deal said. “And [what] was crazy was, Big was telling people he had to be in London. But Puff was telling people, ‘He ain’t going to London’ that whole week.”
Deal said he worried about attending the party, as they didn’t have sufficient security.
“I’m sitting up at the Beverly Hills Hotel, and I get a phone call. It’s about 9 o’clock. And they say, ‘Gene, get ready, we going to the Vibe party,’” he said. “I was like, ‘We going to this party? We don’t have no security!’”
He claimed he warned Combs about possible trouble at the party, but Combs brushed him off.
He said he feels responsible on some level
Combs himself has said that he feels some level of responsibility for Biggie’s death.
“I think I’ll always feel some sort of responsibility because I’m in this thing with him,” he said on The Wendy Williams Show in 2017 (via ABC News). “He’s my artist.”
He said he tried to convince Biggie to skip the party and go to London.
“He was supposed to go to London that night and I let him talk me into not going to London and staying in L.A.,” Diddy said. “That’s something that really bothered me throughout my life. Sometimes you have to really go with that decision in your gut and in my gut it was like, ‘You need to get on the plane.’”
He said not pushing harder to get Biggie on the plane is a major regret.
Another Bad Boy artist said Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs wasn’t paying the Notorious B.I.G. enough
Several people said that in the period before Biggie’s murder, he planned to stop working with Combs. Mark Curry, another Bad Boy rapper, said Combs hadn’t given Biggie a fair deal.
“I was in the same spot as Biggie when he signed with Bad Boy,” Curry wrote in his book Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hiphop (via Salon). “After Biggie signed the contracts that Puff forced on him, for example, he walked away with only $25,000.”
Curry claimed Combs tried to hide this after Biggie’s death.
“To avoid people finding out just how broke Biggie was when he was killed, Puff announced that he was giving the fallen star’s family several million dollars.”
