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After his father, Melvin Combs, died, Sean "Diddy" Combs was raised by his mother, Janice Combs
Janice was a model and a teacher's assistant who put her son through private school
She claimed there are "lies" and "inaccuracies" about her son's life in the 2025 Netflix docuseries, Sean Combs: The Reckoning
Sean "Diddy" Combs was born to his parents, Janice and Melvin Earl Combs, in November 1969.
He was raised in different parts of New York, although the "I'll Be Missing You" rapper mostly has memories with his mom after his dad was killed in 1972.
"I don't have a lot of memories of my father," he told Revolt TV in 2013. "They say you can't miss something you never had, that's only a little ways right. There's definitely been times as I've gotten older that I've mis

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