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What Was It Like to Party With P. Diddy?


A decade of details from Diddy, his celebrity guests, and the media.

He has told stories on late-night TV about how Michael Jackson once came to one of his parties to “holla at” then-single-lady Beyoncé, and how invites were such a hot commodity that Henry Winkler allegedly once got through two barricades, “pushed past” security, and ran to hide in the bathroom just to get inside. November 2006: Combs explains to Oprah that he started hosting White Parties because he “wanted to strip away everyone’s image and put us all in the same color and on the same level.” He describes the inaugural event as a “down-home cookout” with 200 people — from Leonardo DiCaprio to some of his “boys from Harlem” — that lasted until the next morning. The Sun reportedly claimed “a month’s supply of top quality champagne and cognac” was consumed at a Combs-hosted a “wild night” at a club where he partied until 8 a.m. that morning; Combs’s press office said that the cancellation was because he had a rehearsal in Los Angeles.

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