In 2022, several decades into a storied entertainment career, Sean “Diddy” Combs’ star—and his net worth—still seemed to be rising.
He had hosted the Billboard Music Awards, launched a new record label, and attained billionaire status. Since then, however, federal racketeering and sex-trafficking charges and a cascade of civil lawsuits have scuttled some of his most lucrative business relationships and vastly deflated the wealth of a man who once called himself Puff Daddy. (Fortune reached out to more than 100 of Combs’ former employees. Read here what those who spoke with us say about his leadership style.)
