50 Cent mocks Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs over ‘Sesame Street’ nickname
50 Cent has again poked fun at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, this time over the nicknames he used with one of his ex-girlfriends. Combs returned to the courtroom in his sex trafficking trial on June 5th, where Jane Doe, a woman who dated the rapper until his September arrest, testified.
Combs allegedly introduced her to something called “hotel nights.” She claimed they first met in 2020 when she was on a girls’ trip with a friend who was dating the rapper. Doe said they eventually had their first date at a Miami hotel in January 2021.
Come May 2021, the rapper allegedly brought up sexual fantasies involving other men and voyeuristic sex. Doe revealed they gave each other nicknames, calling herself “Bert” and Combs “Ernie,” named after characters from the children’s television show, Sesame Street.
Doe claimed that in May 2021, Combs watched her have sex with another man for the first time. Hours later, he allegedly hired a man from an escort service after his assistants set up a hotel room. Recalling the situation, she broke down in tears, telling the courtroom, “I was just super nervous.”
While she felt exhilarated the first time it happened, she said she came to regret it as it became the basis of their relationship. She said the “hotel nights” would sometimes last for days, and said that whenever she told Combs she didn’t want to participate in the encounters, he threatened to stop paying her rent.
50 Cent, a longtime enemy of Combs, took to Instagram to react to the Sesame Street revelation. “He wanted me to call him Ernie, Diddy wild,” he wrote in a since-deleted post alongside an image of Bert and Ernie in lingerie.
Combs has been charged with racketeering, sex trafficking by force, and transportation for purposes of prostitution. The anonymous woman joins Cassie, Kid Cudi and other alleged victims who have testified during the trial.
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