Lord of the hip-hop bling

You know his muth***** name!
Actually, no. We don't. Sean Combs? Puffy? Puff Daddy, Diddy Doit?...Everytime we think we know how to address him, he goes and changes his mind. But then so might you if people tried taking your name from you.

What are you on about?
90s one-hit dance wonder Richard 'Diddy' Dearlove reached an out of court settlement stating that Mr. Combs could no longer trade under the name Diddy in the UK. "I was gutted," says Dearlove. "I started getting emails from Puerto Rican girls asking if they could be in my video and people were asking me to look at their clothing line."

Poor him...I bet he wouldn't have been as pernickety had he been invited to one of his namesake's parties?
Too right. Sienna 'Jude' Miller, crystal meth chick Fergie and a host of Z-listers including Abi Titmuss, all hung out at the 'aftershow party' for his cancelled gigs recently at London's Paper nightclub. The Puffster reportedly put down a £35,000 bar tab for the night.

Bling, bling baby!
Indeed. It was such a blast that he managed to make everyone forget that there'd actually been no concert to speak of.

That's some achievement!
Hey, he's not known as the king of hip-hop bling for no reason, plus this was the first chance he'd had to celebrate since his girlfriend Kim Porter gave birth to their twins - they now have three kids together. Lovely eh?

Hang on - three and she's still only his girlfriend? What's going on?
Err, have you heard of the words Paul and McCartney? Diddy has a fortune of $195 million to protect thanks to ventures including his label, Bad Boy Records, the Sean John clothing line and two restaurants...

He might say:
'I've decided to change my name'

He might not say:
'That's a touch extravagant, isn't it?'

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