Who is Sean 'Diddy' Combs? His awards and dating history, why his homes were raided this week

Sean Love Combs, 54, also known as P. Diddy, Puff Daddy or Diddy, is a R&B artist, rapper and record producer and executive. He owns his own record label, Bad Boy Records, which he founded in 1993.

Diddy also owns two Florida homes.

Diddy’s been nominated for myriad industry awards, from people’s choice awards, to lifetime achievement awards and Grammys. He’s got 18 trophies under his belt and has been nominated for awards more than 60 times throughout his multi-decade career.

Recently, Puff Daddy has been in the news for a string of serious sexual and domestic abuse allegations. He’s facing multiple lawsuits for accusing him of rape, sexual assault and now, sex trafficking.

This week, feds searched his homes in Los Angeles and Miami. They were looking for evidence of the star’s alleged involvement in a sex trafficking scandal.

Combs is denying all accusations.

Here’s a little bit about who Sean Love Combs is, his dating history and why he’s being investigated.

How many awards has Diddy won?

According to his IMDB profile, Diddy’s won 18 trophies and has been nominated for 65.

Here’s a snapshot of some of his accolades and near wins:

• BET Awards:

  • 2002 Video of the Year winner

  • 2002 nominee for Video of the Year (two separate nominations in the same category)

• Grammys:

  • 2024 Nominee for Best Progressive R&B Album

  • 2016 Nominee for Best Rap Song

  • 2004 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group winner (with Nelly, Murphy Lee)

  • 2003 Nominee for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Pharell, Busta Rhymes)

  • 2002 Nominee for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group

  • 2000 Nominee for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with R. Kelly)

  • 1998 Nominee for Best New Artist

  • 1998 Best Rap Album winner

  • 1998 Nominee for Best Rap Album (for a different album, shared with The Notorious B.I.G.)

  • 1998 Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Faith Evans)

  • 1998 Nominee for Best Rhythm & Blues Song (with Mariah Carey and Q-Tip)

  • 1998 Nominee for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase)

  • 1998 Nominee for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group (with Mase)

  • 1996 Nominee for Best R&B Album

• VMAs:

  • 2023 Nominee for Best Hip Hop (with Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami)

  • 2023 Nominee for Best Collaboration (with Metro Boomin, the Weeknd, 21 Savage)

  • 2023 Nominee for Best R&B (with Metro Boomin, the Weeknd, 21 Savage)

  • 2023 Nominee for Best Collaboration (with Bryson Tiller, Ashanti, Yung Miami)

  • 2023 Global Icon Award winner

  • 2002 Nominee for Best Rap Video (with Black Rob and Mark Curry)

  • 1998 Nominee for Video of the Year

  • 1998 Nominee for Best Video from a Film

  • 1998 Viewer's Choice winner

  • 1997 Winner for Best R&B Video (with Faith Evans)

  • 1997 Nominee for Viewer's Choice (with Faith Evans)

• 2009 NAACP Image award for his performance in “A Raisin in the Sun”

• 2010 People’s Choice Awards Nominee for “Favorite Web Celeb”

Diddy also won BET's Lifetime Achievement Award recently, at the 2022 BET Awards.

Who dated Puff Daddy?

Diddy’s longest relationship was with the late Kim Porter. They dated on and off from the late ‘90s through 2007. The pair raised four children together before Porter passed due to lobar pneumonia in 2018.

Before Porter, Diddy dated fashion designer Misa Hylton in the early ‘90s, when he was an up-and-coming star.

In 1999, Diddy started dating “Jenny from the Block” singer Jennifer Lopez. The two dated for about two years, splitting in 2001.

Following his final break-up with Kim Porter, Combs started dating singer Cassandra Ventura, known as “Cassie.”  The two dated on and off for years, until 2018, when they split for good.

In November of last year, Cassie “Filed a sex trafficking and sexual assault lawsuit against him, alleging the Bad Boy Records founder lured her into an ‘ostentatious, fast-paced and drug-fueled lifestyle,’ raped and beat her, and allegedly forced her into ‘repeated unwanted sexual encounters’ with male prostitutes he hired, over a period of 10 years,” according to a report from The Palm Beach Post.

“The suit also named Combs' companies Bad Boy Entertainment, Bad Boy Records, Combs Enterprises, LLC, as well as Epic Records. The suit was settled for an undisclosed amount the next day.”

How many children does Diddy have?

Sean Combs has seven children.

Outside of his four children with Kim Porter, “Diddy also welcomed a son, Justin, with fashion designer Misa Hylton and a daughter, Chance, with his friend Sarah Chapman,” according to People.

“In 2022, Diddy announced the birth of his seventh child, Love, with Dana Tran.”

Why was Diddy raided by the feds?

Soon after Cassie came forward in November, Joi Dickerson-Neal alleged that Combs drugged and sexually assaulted her in January 1991. She shared a video of the assault with others in the music industry, according to her lawsuit filed in New York.

Dickerson-Neal and Ventura filed their suits before the deadline of the New York's Adult Survivors Act, which opened a one-year window for victims of sexual abuse to make claims about events that ordinarily would be too old for legal action.

In December, an anonymous person filed a lawsuit alleging Combs and his associates raped her when she was 17 years old.

This year, in February, Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones Jr., a music producer who worked with Combs on his most recent record, "The Love Album: Off the Grid," accused him of sexual assault.

In the lawsuit, he also accuses Combs and his associates, including his 30-year-old son, Justin Dior Combs, his chief of staff and Combs Global Enterprises, of participating in "a sex-trafficking venture."

For more information on what we know about the ongoing investigation concerning Sean Combs' alleged criminal activity, read here.

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Post: 'Diddy' raids: Here is what Sean Combs is known for. Awards, troubles