Sean Combs and Jay-Z’s friendship timeline: from storied hip-hop rivalry to Diddy’s recent legal troubles

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accused of raping a 13-year-old girl with Diddy in a recently amended lawsuit, in which the unnamed female — known as Jane Doe — claimed the rappers took turns assaulting her at an afterparty following the 2000 Video Music Awards.

Jay-Z denied the “heinous” allegations, calling the lawsuit a “blackmail attempt.”Here’s a look back at Diddy and Jay-Z’s decades-long friendship.The pair collaborated on each other’s 1997 albums following the death of their mutual friend Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls, real name Christopher George Latore Wallace).

Diddy featured Jay-Z on the track “Do You Like It, Do You Want It” from his “No Way Out” album, while Combs appeared on “In My Lifetime, Vol 1,” Carter’s second album.When he died, Biggie was signed to Diddy’s record label and had previously collaborated on Jay-Z’s first album, “Reasonable Doubt.The rappers found their names splashed across the news following two separate events in 1999.

Jay-Z received three years of probation for his role in the stabbing of Lance “Un” Rivera at the Kit Kat Club in New York. Two decades later, Rivera confirmed that “Jay-Z was not the guy who actually stabbed me that night.”Diddy also received three years of probation for fleeing the scene of a nightclub shooting near Times Square with his then-girlfriend Jennifer Lopez.It’s believed Diddy and Jay-Z bonded over their experiences.Jay-Z and Beyoncé were linked in 2001 when he was 33 and she was 19.