
Sean 'Diddy' Combs Allegedly Threatened To See Magazine Editor 'Dead In The Trunk Of A Car'
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Combs allegedly threatened former Vibe editor-in-chief Danyel Smith in 1997, after she declined to show him an upcoming magazine cover depicting him as an angel.
The editor of a music magazine on Friday became the latest woman to accuse embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs of violent behavior, claiming he’d threatened to see her “dead in the trunk of a car” over a 1997 editorial dispute.
Combs is currently facing multiple lawsuits alleging sexual assault and physical abuse, as well as an ongoing federal criminal investigation into his alleged involvement in sex trafficking.
“Combs and I worked together a lot,” Danyel Smith, then-editor-in-chief at Vibe magazine, wrote in The New York Times. “Competed, in our way. So often I thought I came out on top. I was mistaken. I had reason to fear for my life. What happened was insidious. It broke my brain. I forgot the worst of it for 27 years.”
Smith recalled wanting Combs on the cover of Vibe’s December 1997/January 1998 issue in white, feathered wings. The photo shoot in September went swimmingly, but the aftermath proved disturbing.
“Combs wanted to see the Vibe covers before they went to press,” Smith wrote Friday. “It wasn’t our policy to show covers before publication, so after I told him no, we heard that he planned to come to our office and force us to show him.”