Rosie O’Donnell says she was turned away at the door of one of Diddy’s white parties.
Diddy was arrested on September 16 in New York City. He was charged with racketeering, conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution.
O’Donnell recently shared a story about being invited to one of his famous parties, only to be turned away at the door. O’Donnell reflected on the experience in a nearly 10-minute TikTok video following Combs’ recent arrest on serious charges.
According to a 14-page unsealed indictment, Combs orchestrated drug-fueled “elaborate and produced sex performances,” referred to as “Freak Offs,” as reported by BBC. These events, allegedly directed and recorded by Combs, sometimes lasted for days, with participants receiving IV fluids to recover from the physical and drug-induced exhaustion, as detailed by Metro.
Combs, the founder of Bad Boy Records, was also well-known for his annual white parties, frequented by Hollywood’s elite. O’Donnell, 62, recalled that she used to live next door to Combs in Miami and was invited to one of these star-studded gatherings, where everyone was dressed in white. However, when she and her children arrived in sweatpants, they were denied entry.
“They didn’t let us in,” O’Donnell recounted. “The doormen were, like, looking at us. I’m like, ‘No, no. He invited me yesterday. I live right there. My daughter saw him on the street and we talked.’ No, we couldn’t come in.”
The next day, Combs reached out to apologize in what O’Donnell described as an “unbelievably over-the-top” gesture. She shared that Combs rented out an entire Regal Cinema for her family to watch any movie they wanted, in any theater, for the entire day.
Despite the grand gesture, O’Donnell said she never spoke to Combs again. Now, she’s shocked by the allegations against him. “I’m just kind of in shock,” she said in the video. “There is perhaps a naïveté to me in some way, but how could a person live knowing that they had done that and then be a public person and continue to do it?”
She compared Combs’ alleged actions to Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, questioning how powerful figures can live without fearing the consequences. “Didn’t he feel the footsteps of the law behind him at all times?” she asked. “Or do you just get to be so big like Harvey Weinstein that you think, ‘I control Hollywood. I control the Oscars. I can sleep with any actress I want whether they want to or not.’”
The Emmy Award winner expressed disbelief that Combs wouldn’t “consider [himself] a rapist” despite allegedly “participating in or filming or watching the rape,” as described in the indictment.
“It’s very disturbing,” O’Donnell continued. “And then you start to think, how many people really knew about it?” She drew parallels to her past skepticism of the accusations against Weinstein before the #MeToo movement, reflecting, “I would have said, ‘No! He runs Miramax. You think he could also be a rapist? Too many people know him. Too many people would be involved.’”
Combs, a father of seven, is currently being held at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center after pleading not guilty to the charges. He has been denied bail twice and faces a possible sentence of 15 years to life if convicted.
O’Donnell also expressed her shock upon hearing reports of over 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant allegedly discovered at Combs’ residence during a police raid. “Sex trafficking? That’s serious, man. And then they found 1,000 bottles of baby oil,” she said, adding, “I’m gonna be thinking about that the rest of my life… It’s very unnerving and very disturbing.”
