Elon Musk ‘boasted’ about Diddy friendship in private after the rapper invested in X: ‘We text a lot’
Elon Musk boasted about his friendship with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after the rapper invested in X, a new book claims.
Musk, 53, called the disgraced music mogul a “good friend” in text messages to another CEO, authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac claim.
Musk and Combs’ relationship has come under scrutiny after the Tesla owner posted a photo of an article on DailyMail.com alleging Diddy abused a nine-year-old boy and asked, “How many people in the music and entertainment world knew about this?”
Stars like Azealia Banks and Aubrey O’Day reacted angrily.
“Ask your friends, they’ll tell you,” said O’Day, who previously worked with Diddy.
The beleaguered Combs, 54, is currently facing a separate criminal indictment on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering and has pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Musk quoted a DailyMail.com story about some of the allegations in a class action lawsuit with the caption: “How many people in the music and entertainment industry knew about this?”
Elon Musk boasted about his friendship with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs after the rapper invested in X, a new book claims. Pictured: Musk and Combs at Dave Chapelle’s show in May 2022
However, the Tesla billionaire has been directly linked to Combs, after the rapper pumped $10 million into Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover in 2021.
The two were then spotted close together at the Dave Chappelle show in May 2022. They also attended Kanye West’s Donda 2 experience in February of that year.
But Musk is said to have explicitly boasted about the friendship to Revolt CEO Detavio Samuels, after Samuels expressed his concerns about racism on the X platform under Musk.
“I don’t know if you know this, but Puff is an investor in Twitter,” Musk reportedly told him, referring to a nickname for the rapper. “You know, he’s a good friend of mine. We text a lot.”
The claims were made by Conger and Mac in their book Character Limit.
Combs is currently being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn awaiting trial.
Musk, 53, called the disgraced music mogul a “good friend” in text messages to another CEO, authors Kate Conger and Ryan Mac claim.
Combs pumped $10 million into Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, now renamed
Prosecutors have accused him of overseeing a sordid empire of sex crimes.
He is accused of inciting female victims and male sex workers to perform drugged, sometimes days-long sexual performances called “Freak Offs.”
The indictment against him also alleges that he coerced and abused women for years, while using blackmail and shocking acts of violence to control his victims.
It obliquely refers to an attack on his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, which was captured on video.
Ventura made her own claims of sexual and physical abuse in a lawsuit, which was settled the day after it was filed.
This week, Combs was hit with even more claims from 120 victims in a class action lawsuit accusing him of sexual abuse over a 25-year period, including several child victims, including a nine-year-old.