Picture Would not Present Harris Attending Occasion with Sean 'Diddy' Combs

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A photograph from 2001 authentically confirmed Kamala Harris attending an occasion with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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The person photographed alongside Harris was Montel Williams, a tv host and actor, not Combs. The hip-hop mogul’s face was edited into the image, changing Williams’.

On Sept. 17, 2024, an X person posted a photo (archived) they claimed confirmed a younger U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris attending a celebration with Sean “Diddy” Combs, the rapper and hip-hop mogul who was arrested the day earlier than on intercourse trafficking costs.

The picture, which unfold on X and Facebook, confirmed Harris standing alongside a person and a lady whereas posing for photographers at an occasion. Various X posts (archived here and here) claimed the picture confirmed Harris standing subsequent to Combs. 

(X person @scorpion920)

Nonetheless, the picture had been digitally edited to incorporate Combs’ face, due to this fact we now have rated it as a pretend.

As an alternative, the person she was really subsequent to was Montel Williams, an actor and tv host. Combs’ face changed Williams’ within the edited picture.

Harris and Williams had been attending a red-carpet occasion in 2001 alongside the TV host’s daughter, Ashley Williams. Newsmagazine TV program “Inside Version” posted footage from the occasion on YouTube in November 2020.

In keeping with the caption of an identical Getty Images picture from that day, the occasion was the eighth annual Race to Erase A number of Sclerosis profit on the Century Plaza Lodge in Century Metropolis, California.

(Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Assortment/Getty Photos)

Social media customers additionally claimed the video from the occasion confirmed Harris and Combs collectively.

Snopes has coated rumors about Harris and Williams’ relationship before, together with verifying the identical pictures of them on the 2001 occasion. In 2020, Williams said the next about Harris: “Kamala Harris and I briefly dated about 20 years in the past once we had been each single. So what? I’ve nice respect for Sen. Harris. I’ve to surprise if the identical tales about her courting historical past would have been written if she had been a male candidate?”

Combs was arrested in mid-September 2024 on suspicion of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and interstate transportation for prostitution. In March 2024, his properties had been raided as a part of an ongoing investigation. He additionally confronted a lot of courtroom instances over sexual assault allegations. The rapper and mogul is in jail and awaiting trial as of this writing. 

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