Diddy's ex-friend claims rapper refused to help domestic violence victims years before his sex trafficking arrest
A FORMER friend of P Diddy's claims he tried to persuade him to get on board with a charity project to help domestic violence victims but he was "non-responsive" in the years before his sex trafficking arrest.
Malik Yusef, an 8x Grammy Award-winning artist, also alleges he witnessed a shouting match between Diddy and his ex-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura .
Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs, remains in custody in New York and is facing multiple charges of sex trafficking and racketeering as well as transportation to engage in prostitution.
The charges came almost a year after his ex, R&B singer Cassie, sued him for rape and physical abuse, eventually settling the case.
Soon after, CNN obtained surveillance footage of Combs allegedly physically assaulting her in a Los Angeles hotel hallway which left many disturbed.
In an exclusive chat with The U.S. Sun, Malik spoke of his anger over Cassie's abuse, and how disappointed he was that Combs turned down opportunities to focus on philanthropy.
He recalled, "I had a big situation happening with Diddy where I was trying to get him to help me and my environmental causes.
"You got a motherf***** who's a billionaire, and he playing off in his a** with that money.
"We could be really doing oceanic work, helping youth, really helping women.
"And he made a big grandiose stand at the Soho House, and I'm still upset about it.
"He said, 'I'm ready now Malik, I'm brother love, I'm with you, all your initiatives, Imma help you.' Give me $100million, Puff, and let me do this s***, bro.
What he did to Cassie was f***ing atrocious.
Ex-pal Malik Yusef"I said to him 'Let's save the whales, dog, let's do something for battered women.'"
Malik had suggested they look again at the star's social project, Daddy's House, and use it to help domestic violence victims.
He talked through his plan with Combs, who he claims later pulled away from the idea of working with him.
Malik said, "I was like, 'Daddy's House should be a haven for women who are in these wretched situations with men who abused them.' Because, under Michelle Obama, I did domestic abuse counseling.
"He was non-responsive. Now I know why.
"And then he went off to just you know, what he did to Cassie was f***ing atrocious. And what he did to everybody.
"But that's what happens when you don't apply your energy, your resource, to making positive change, you wind up abusing people, and then you don't even know you're abusing people because power skews perspective. So it's f***** up."
Malik, who grew up in an abusive household, said it was around 2016 when he asked Combs to work with him, which is the same year he is said to have attacked Cassie in the hotel in Los Angeles .
Combs established Daddy's House around 1994 when he was 29, a social program in Harlem.
He previously told The LA Times, "At Daddy's House, our goal is to help young people prepare for today's world by giving them hope and direction. I want to provide opportunities for those who [are] not as fortunate as I was."'s world by giving them hope and direction. I want to provide opportunities for those who [are] not as fortunate as I was."
According to the outlet, the organization was run by volunteers out of a YMCA center in Harlem.
The U.S. Sun found no proof it still exists.
After speaking about getting involved with Malik, Combs, 54, never stuck to his promise, and his former friend says he now realizes why.
"I think he really didn't want to do that because it was self-accusatory in a way, because he was battering the woman and we didn't know about that sh**," Malik said.
"And I feel sorry for the kids [Combs' children] because I love all of them. I love every one of those f***ing kids. I hate that they have to go through this embarrassment from their dad."
Although he never saw Combs physically assault Cassie, he claims he saw them engaged in a shouting match one night in the street in Los Angeles.
"I was pulling up on Puff, and she got into one of the cars and [wheel screeched], in the middle of Robinson Road. And I was like, 'That was Cassie'," he said.
"I was like 'Puff, what's up?' I didn't know what was going on. I just know they were arguing. He said 'What?' I was like, 'It's Malik'.
"He said, 'Oh, I'll get to you in a minute'.
"Man, Puff is just arguing with Cassie out here. I was like, 'Why the f*** is he, [a] grown a** man, arguing in public.'
"But that's all I really knew about it, when I saw that s***.
"I love Cassie, man. Sweet, sweet girl.
"Everybody has their problems, nobody is perfect, but nobody deserves to be treated like that. No f***ing way.
"No woman should be handled like that. If that was his boyfriend he was fighting, mutual combat, maybe, but not a woman. F*** that."
Malik, who has worked with many artists including Kanye West and Beyonce, had moved in the same circles as Combs for years but insists he never went to one of his famous ' Freak-Off ' parties' because he's more of a homebody.
Malik also works as a spoken word artist and producer and has just released his new album, Sonic Sinema, which blends his skills.
According to prosecutors, Combs allegedly held drug-fueled orgies that lasted days and left victims needing IV drips, something Malik says he was not interested in.
Authorities recovered "more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant," from his homes which were allegedly used for the parties, according to the indictment.
Recalling a night Combs tried to invite him to a party, Malik said, "I was at my house with my wife and kids, back and forth with him on Oscar night, the night that Will Smith slapped Chris Rock.
"He was voice messaging me back and forth like, 'Yeh man, come to this, come to this Oscar party.'
"I'm like, 'Puff, I'm not coming to an Oscar party. I'm with my kids watching the Oscars. They're not gonna talk no business at the Oscar party, bro.'
"But it'll make him look good to be seen talking to me because obviously I'm a philanthropist and I'm an environmentalist and I'm female-forward and so on and so forth.
"So you get a lot of points f***ing with me because I'm really about that life. I'm really about that action, really about changing sh**.
Malik went on, "He affected the culture in a positive way and I've benefited from having a relationship with bro. [But] what he did to people was bad.
"I don't f*** with bro like that. I'm by myself most of the time, I'm working. I don't f*** with Kevin Spacey party. I'm not going, G."
Combs has been sued by both men and women who say he abused them, including Derrick Lee Cardello-Smith, a Michigan inmate who claimed the star drugged and sexually assaulted him at a party in Detroit in 1997.
Malik said, "Whatever his sexuality, that is different from how he applied his power. Whatever you do with your body my ****. That's your business, dog.
"Puff, you like to put baby oil on other men, that's you. But be a good leader, be fair in your label, be fair in your practices, be fair in your companies, bro. Not just be fair, f***, we past fair, we gotta be good to people.
"I got a song about this whole situation, about needing therapy.
"Sean needed therapy man, real bad. And, without therapy, he self-medicated with sex, drugs, and violence.
"People are going to act out their trauma in those ways. I'm in therapy all the time, I have three therapists and two counselors."
Asked why he thinks Combs may have been disturbed, he said, "It's hard to tell, man.
"He's told us stories about going to pee in the middle of the night [as a kid] and the toilet well being frozen, pee splashing out of it, being in Harlem, being poor like that. So, poverty scars.
"Poverty is a rough thing to deal with for a human. And then it went to the extreme [being rich].
"If you're not willing to wake up every day and work like you're still poor, then you're going to have these deviant thoughts. What can I do to control other people?"
Malik said he doesn't know if he's guilty or innocent of all of the charges, but he hopes the situation has humbled him.
"[I hope] that he changes his ways uses what money he's got left to really help change the world and protect the world from people who really are monsters," he said.
"There are no demons in hell man, they all up here walking around. All up here walking around inside of us."
