- Sean "Diddy" Combs' legal history is extensive. Fortune looked at hundreds of pages of court documents and police reports and contacted 28 individuals involved in lawsuits against him to investigate the breadth of the actions taken against him. These include three arrests, two guilty pleas, and more than 24 lawsuits alleging wrongful death, violence, harm, and threats over 30 years. Combs denies wrongdoing.
On his way to becoming a music industry mogul with three Grammys and, at his peak, a billion-dollar net worth, Sean “Diddy” Combs often found himself in courtrooms or on the receiving end of legal action. Since age 22—before Combs founded Bad Boy Records, which would become the career cornerstone of the Notorious B.I.G. and Mary J. Blige, among others—Combs has been named a defendant in dozens of lawsuits.
