Sean Combs (born November 4, 1969) grew up in Mount Vernon, just to the north of the New York City’s the Bronx with his parents Melvin and Janice Combs. When Combs was two, his father Melvin was shot and killed in his car on January 26, 1972 at age thirty-three in a Manhattan park following a party he attended. Combs studied at a private secondary school at the Roman Catholic Mount Saint Michael Academy in the Bronx and graduated in 1987. Combs went on to Howard University in Washington, DC but dropped out, so that he could pursue his career with Uptown Records. While being enrolled at Howard University, Combs gained a reputation as a trusted and ambitious party promoter. Combs, demonstrated his work ethic by traveling back and forth between Washington, DC and New York juggling his classes and his internship with Uptown records.

After starting the label, both Craig Mack and The Notorious B.I.G. quickly released hit singles, followed by similarly successful LPs, particularly B.I.G.’s Ready to Die. Puff Daddy, as he was then known, began signing more acts to Bad Boy, including, Dream, Carl Thomas, Faith Evans, Father MC, 112 and Total, as well as producing for Jodeci, Mary J. Blige, Usher, Lil’ Kim, TLC, Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, SWV, Aretha Franklin and others, and forming The Hitmen, an in-house production team. Ma$e and D-Block (known as “The Lox” at the time) soon joined Bad Boy, just as a widely publicized rivalry with the West Coast’s Death Row Records was beginning.

On Thursday December 21, 2006, Combs’ girlfriend at the time, Kim Porter (who also has a son with Al B Sure), delivered twin girls, one at 7:56 am weighing 5lbs and the other at 7:58am weighing 5lbs 4oz. They named them D’Lila Star and Jessie James Combs. The couple also have a son, Christian, 9. Sean has another son, Justin, 13, from his previous relationship with stylist Misa Hylton-Brim. In July 2007, Combs’ rep confirms that the couple has split.

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