Diddy: 'Studio sex' and 'hitman threats' - insiders speak out about his 90s music empire

Bad Boy Records staff claim troubling incidents in the rise of the rap mogul, now fighting sex trafficking charges.

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Former music executive Daniel Evans says he can still remember the threat from his old boss, Sean "Diddy" Combs - then known as Puff Daddy - to a colleague. It was 1997, he says, in the New York office of Combs's Grammy Award-winning music label Bad Boy Records.

"It was like, this is what money does to you," he says.

Combs was often "prickly", but Evans says power was transforming him. Just days before, the hip-hop mogul had received his biggest reward to date – $6m (£4.8m) to mark the label's success, which boasted platinum-selling artists like The Notorious B.I.G.

That year Combs's music career reached its peak, with his empire soon expanding into fashion, alcohol and even his own TV network.

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