Ashton Kutcher’s longtime friendship with Sean “Diddy” Combs is under the radar after the federal raids on the music mogul’s homes last week via Independent.
It was on 25 March that Diddy’s mansions in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by federal agents as part of a sex trafficking investigation. Diddy has not been formally charged or accused by federal prosecutors of any crime but described the actions of agents as a “gross overuse of military-level force” and insisted he was innocent of any wrongdoing.
Since the raids, Kutcher’s past comments about Diddy have resurfaced. Appearing on the YouTube series Hot Ones in 2019, the actor declined to share details about the rapper’s parties, saying, “I’ve got a lot I can’t tell,” before pausing to consider. “I can’t tell that one either.”
The pair became friends in 2003 while they were both producing shows at MTV. At the time, Kutcher had just launched the prank show Punk’d when he received a call from Diddy.
“I gave [Kutcher] a call one day and said, ‘I heard that you are going to punk me, and I just don’t think that’s a good idea,’” Diddy told James Corden on The Late Late Show in 2018.
“I think it was some version of, ‘If you do that, that will not end well for you, but I think we should work out a deal,’” Kutcher added.
