Underground Tunnel to Playboy Mansion Found in Diddy's Mansion?

In late-September 2024, viral posts claimed that authorities discovered an underground tunnel beneath the Los Angeles mansion of Sean “Diddy” Combs, a rapper and music mogul. Lots of the posts on X mentioned the tunnels linked Combs’ mansion to the close by Playboy Mansion, a famed get together house owned by tycoon Hugh Hefner.

One publish said, “Regardless of the invention, the Federal authorities has but to launch any photographs of [the tunnel]. The mainstream media insists there are not any connections between this tunnel and the close by Playboy mansion, situated simply minutes away.”

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There isn’t a accessible proof that such a tunnel exists. Nonetheless, information studies famous that certainly one of Combs’ mansions did have a pool with an underwater swimming tunnel. This tunnel was not tied to the Playboy Mansion. We have now reached out to the U.S. Division of Justice to study extra concerning the raid performed by legislation enforcement. Till we get extra info, we price this declare as unfounded.

Per information reports, in March 2024, Combs’ properties in Los Angeles, California, and Miami, Florida, have been raided by Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) brokers as a part of an ongoing investigation. Combs’ Los Angeles mansion was situated within the upscale Holmby Hills, in line with Reuters, the identical neighborhood because the Playboy Mansion. Nonetheless, there is no such thing as a recognized underground tunnel connecting the 2.

There’s, nonetheless, an underground swimming tunnel within the Los Angeles mansion. In keeping with a 2014 Los Angeles Occasions report on Combs’ buy of the then-new mansion, the European-style villa included “a lagoon-style swimming pool with a grotto linked by an underwater swimming tunnel.”

In keeping with news studies, the mansion’s tackle is 200 South Mapleton Drive. Gossip web site Page Six shared images of the mansion’s exterior and reported it was being offered for $61 million in September 2024. Listings and pictures of the identical tackle can be found on Realtor.com and Zillow, each property gross sales websites. Getty Photographs photographs of the raid on the mansion from March 2024 additionally match the outline of the mansion from the property listings. The underground swimming tunnel isn’t seen in these photographs. The outline on the property itemizing states:

One probably the most spectacular and delightful estates in Holmby Hills, located behind gates on over 1.3 fully stage acres. A cobblestone driveway results in a totally reworked two story conventional property with traditional European particulars. That includes a beautiful, paneled entry lobby with sweeping staircase flooded with pure gentle. Giant front room, formal eating, wine cellar, workplace, gourmand kitchen with household room & separate catering kitchen. There is a state-of-the-art theatre that may accommodate 35 individuals. Upstairs is the first suite with luxurious twin baths and enormous closets, and a large gallery hallway results in all visitor/household suites. There is a 2-story visitor home with massive gymnasium, recording studio and visitor bedrooms. The gorgeous grounds function lovely lawns, mature timber, formal gardens, a resort like swimming pool with waterfall and grotto, basketball courtroom, spa home and an outside lined loggia with BBQ, bar, and pizza oven.

In keeping with indictment documents, throughout the March 2024 raids on Combs’ Miami and Los Angeles properties, investigators discovered narcotics, firearms, ammunition, and provides for the so-called “Freak Off” events, referring to the “elaborate and produced intercourse performances that Combs organized” and that he allegedly usually pressured victims to take part in.

The posts spread as Combs was arrested in mid-September 2024 on suspicion of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and interstate transportation for prostitution. Combs additionally confronted various courtroom instances over sexual assault allegations. The rapper and mogul is in jail and awaiting trial as of this writing.

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