Locked out: Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was asked to return his key to New York City – will Miami and Chicago rescind theirs?

Eric Adams and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs in New York City on 15 September 2023. Photograph: Caroline Rubinstein-Willis/AP

Now that Sean “Diddy” Combs has become persona non grata, his hometown is officially locking him out.

Last fall Eric Adams presented the hip-hop impresario with an honorary key to New York City in a splashy Times Square ceremony that doubled as a showcase for each man’s unbidden bravado. “The bad boy of entertainment is getting the key to the city from the bad boy of politics,” declared the New York mayor, who could be observed making a heart hand with Combs while posing the commemorative placard.