Been a committed hip hop fan for 30 years. Southern (specifically Memphis) hip hop is my beloved genre about which I know stupidly nerdy amounts, but in the 90s I was following the East Coast West Coast rivalry close enough to know that Diddy was KNOWN to be a monster even back then.
Diddy effectively whipped up the deadly East-West Coast rivalry because he made a big deal of getting South Side Crip members to be his and Biggie's bodyguard when they were in Cali. This was done deliberately to antagonise Suge Knight the head of Death Row records (Pac, Snoop, Dre) as he was known to be a prominent member of the Mob Piru Bloods. Anyway I'm not going to go into all the stuff that went on because I'd be here forever and many books have been written about it already. But the upshot of that was Pac getting shot, probably by Keefe D or one of his fellow South Side Crip affiliates Terrence Brown or DeAndre Smith, probably on Diddy's say-so.
Of course 6 months later Biggie was shot in retaliation and Diddy MILKED that for YEARS, Biggie was worth more to him dead than alive and he MILKED it without morals or shame.
50 Cent has been ruthlessly calling out Diddy for years. As has Eminem. Both those guys should absolutely get their flowers now.
Anyway his White Parties and Freak Offs have been legendary throughout the years. There's a lot of silly conspiracies out there and some have been repeated on this thread, but I will say that Jay-Z, DJ Khaled and Usher also have some questions to answer IMO. And some of the better known victims of Diddy IMO are Lil Kim, Justin Bieber, Lil Baby, many more.
Abuse of women is sadly endemic in hip-hop. The women that go through it and make it (Lil Kim, La Chat, Megan) do so by basically divesting themselves from men in the industry. Those that don't end up broken like Nicki Minaj and Foxy Brown. It is getting a little better now because we are seeing a flowering of female rap and many rappers such as Cardi B, Glorilla, Latto are VOCALLY supportive of each other against male abuse.
However, abusive dynamics in relationships are sadly still excused. We all know now about R Kelly and Aaliyah but why are not more people calling out Jay-Z and Beyonce? Their official story is that they met when she was 18 and he 37 (because that's sooooo normal obviously) but nah that's not the truth, from photos and gossip columns of the time. She was more like 15.
ALL OF THE ABOVE IS ALLEGED AND MY OPINION ONLY