A video from 2001 authentically confirmed Kamala Harris attending an occasion with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
The person alongside Harris within the video was Montel Williams, a tv host and actor, not Sean Combs.
On Sept. 17, 2024, an X consumer posted a video 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 prices.
“Right here is P Diddy with Kamala Harris. P Diddy has been arrested for intercourse trafficking,” the consumer wrote in a publish that has since been deleted. The footage confirmed Harris standing alongside a person and a girl whereas posing for photographers at an occasion.
(X consumer @JDunlap1974)
Related posts seemingly claiming the person within the clip was Combs appeared elsewhere on the platform in July and September 2024.
Always remember how Kamala Harris obtained her begin. She is not a stranger to Diddy events in L.A. both.
P Diddy has been arrested. pic.twitter.com/QEaqD7FJzY
— Ape𝕏 (@CubanOnlyTrump) September 17, 2024
Nonetheless, the above posts have been incorrectly captioned. They didn’t present Harris standing alongside Combs; reasonably, the person she was with was Montel Williams, an actor and tv host.
Harris and Williams have been attending a red-carpet occasion in 2001 alongside the TV host’s daughter, Ashley Williams. Newsmagazine TV program “Inside Version” posted the previous footage on YouTube in November 2020.
In line with the caption of a Getty Images photograph 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.
On Sept. 17, 2024, Williams additionally responded to the now-deleted X publish claiming he was Combs, along with his personal X publish stating: “Right here they go once more with ‘all black individuals look alike…'”
Social media customers additionally shared a photo from the identical occasion that had been altered to interchange Williams’ face with Combs’.
Snopes has coated rumors about Harris and Williams’ relationship before, together with verifying the identical images 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 have been each single. So what? I’ve nice respect for Sen. Harris. I’ve to marvel if the identical tales about her courting historical past would have been written if she have 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 have been raided as a part of an ongoing investigation. He additionally confronted numerous court docket circumstances over sexual assault allegations. The rapper and mogul is in jail and awaiting trial as of this writing.
