Kim Porter was Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ on-off partner for 13 years. The former couple had three children together and Diddy described her as ‘more than a soulmate’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ ex Kim Porter tragically died in 2018 when she was just 47.
The model and actress was in an on-off relationship with Diddy, who is facing charges of sex trafficking, from 1994 until 2007. Together, they had son, Christian ‘King’ Combs, 26, and twin daughters D’Lila and Jessie, 17. Diddy also helped to raise Quincy, Kim’s 33-year-old son from her previous relationship with singer-songwriter Al B. Sure!.
Kim was found by Los Angeles officials to have died of pneumonia at her home in Toluca Lake on November 15 after suffering from flu-like symptoms in the days before.
“She had the flu and she sent the kids over to my house so they wouldn’t get sick,” Diddy said in an interview with Essence. “One night I was checking on her and she was like: ‘Puffy, take care of my babies’. She actually said that to me before she died.”
But in an interview back in April, Donald Trump Jr, son of the former President, revealed his ex-wife Vanessa Kay had been friends with Kim and wildly questioned her official cause of death.
“Not a lot of people die at 47 of pneumonia… and I’m not trying to fuel any kind of rumour but that’s a conversation I had with someone who knew her well,” he told the AKADEMIKS podcast.
On September 6 this year, days before music mogul Diddy’s arrest for sex trafficking, a short, shocking ‘memoir’ called Kim’s Lost Words was published. Publisher Chris Todd claimed he obtained the book from close friends who Kim allegedly shared a thumb drive of her writing with, but he has not offered any documentary evidence to prove its authenticity and it is widely believed to be fake.
In the supposed memoir, Diddy is described as a ‘terrifying monster’ who threatened Kim with a gun and first hit her for refusing to take part in a sex act. The final entry of the 60-page book says Kim texted her friends ‘he got me’ when she fell gravely ill. Kim’s ex Al B. Sure! and her best friend Eboni Elektra have both said the memoir is fake.
Taking to Instagram, Eboni confirmed: “Now it’s getting out of hand. THERE IS NO BOOK! There never was. Several people continue to speak about and spread blatant lies regarding this “mystery manuscript” as if it were true. People…… IT’S NOT.
“Kim would never do such a thing, and that’s the honest to God truth. GOD knows the truth and so does she. As for me, I couldn’t have another person call my phone or send me a text about this without clearing the air.”
Meanwhile, CCTV footage released by CNN in May had shown Diddy kicking and dragging his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura through a hotel corridor. But Kim’s father Jake Porter, 78, told Rolling Stone in May he had never seen the under fire star abuse his late daughter.
Kim rarely spoke about her relationship with the disgraced rapper and the pair seemed to remain pals and enjoy a close co-parenting relationship post break-up. “We’re committed to our children even if we couldn’t commit to each other,” Kim once said.
“I know she deserves to get married, but I’m just not ready,” Diddy told Essence in 2006. “It’s not a reflection on how much I love Kim. It’s that I’m just learning how to be a good boyfriend. When I’m finished with this step, I’ll move on to the next.”
But while the couple were both publicly polite about one another, its clear their relationship was a rollercoaster. In 1999, they battled it out in court over child support for Christian and there were multiple accusations of infidelity on the part of Diddy.
Diddy called Kim ‘more than a soulmate’ and in a post-break-up statement, Kim wished him ‘prosperity, health and happiness in life and in love’. But in reality the split was fiery, with Kim reportedly throwing a television at her on-off beau in a fit of rage, waiting for him to leave town before packing up her things and even taking the kitchen table with her.
“I wanted to be dramatic,” she told Essence. “Puffy’s an action person, not a talk person. So, I had to have an action. Telling him: ‘Babe, I’m leaving’, was not gonna do it.”
Now, in allegations dating back to 2008, Diddy has been charged with sex trafficking. He is accused of engaging ‘in a persistent and pervasive pattern of abuse toward women and other individuals’.
The music mogul is said to have enticed female victims and male sex workers into drug-fuelled long sexual performances called ‘freak offs’. He is accused of abusing, coercing and threatening women to ‘fulfil his sexual desires, protect his reputations and conceal his conduct’.
