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30 years before Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faced sex trafficking charges, he organized a celebrity basketball game where 9 people were killed in a stampede

The City College tragedy was the beginning of Combs’ long-forgotten past of people getting hurt on his path to success.

On Dec. 28, 1991, Sean "Diddy" Combs helped organize a celebrity basketball game that resulted in a stampede that would kill nine people, eight the night of the event. Photoillustration by Fortune from photos by NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images; Clarence Sheppard—New York Daily News/Getty Images

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