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Sean Combs Allegedly Threatened to See ‘Vibe’ Editor ‘Dead in the Trunk of a Car’ Over Cover Dispute

Vibe’s former editor in chief Danyel Smith claims Sean Combs threatened her over seeing the magazine's cover in 1997

Combs was slated to be on the cover for the magazine’s December 1997/January 1998 issue, pictured glowering at the camera over tinted shades with white angel wings fanning out behind him, accompanied by the tagline “The Good, the Bad, and the Puffy.” The music mogul is the subject of a federal criminal investigation alongside civil lawsuits by six women and one man alleging a similar pattern of manipulation and abuse that stretched from the early 1990s to 2023. “Considering this nauseating image of myself running and hiding from Combs, of people at work protecting me, made me confront other things I’d possibly repressed about that feral and fantastic time in my life,” Smith wrote.

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