Jennifer Lopez was 'in fear of her life' around Sean 'Diddy' Combs
Jennifer Lopez's ex-husband, Ojani Noa, has claimed she was "in fear of her life" because of Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
Jennifer Lopez's ex-husband has claimed she was "in fear of her life" because of Sean 'Diddy' Combs.
The On the Floor hitmaker's first marriage to Ojani Noa ended in January 1998 after less than a year because of her alleged affair with the disgraced music mogul - who is currently in jail after being found guilty of prostitution-related offences - but the pair remained friends and the 52-year-old personal trainer has recalled how he came to the aid of the superstar following a row with the rapper.
He told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: " “It was the year she dumped him.
“We were still friends and we had decided to start over again.
“He turned up to her assistant’s birthday party in Los Angeles — which Jennifer had thrown for her — and everyone was shocked.
“I went over to him and told him to leave and he told me to back off. He asked me who I was, to which I replied, ‘F*** you’. I told him he had slept with my wife.
“Jennifer got in between us. She said he would leave but he didn’t.
“I got upset with her and at the end of the night she got in his car and left.”
“Everyone makes mistakes and deserves to be forgiven once.
“She had tried to dump Diddy before and he had threatened her and her family."
A few weeks later, Ojani claimed Jennifer - who had an on/off relationship with Diddy from 1999 to early 2001 - called him "terrified" after the I'll Be Missing You singer turned up to her Los Angeles home and began screaming her name, prompting him to head to the house for a confrontation with the rapper.
He recalled: “She said she was scared and afraid so I instantly left work and came over.
“When I got there it was pitch black and I couldn’t see anyone, so he must have been hiding. As I drove in he started shouting and telling her he knew I was inside.
“That’s when I fronted him up. Jennifer was on the balcony and told me not to as she was worried.
“She told me he had guns but I told him that I would f*** him up.
“She said she was going to call the cops but a neighbour must have called them as they turned up and Diddy ran away.
She had said to me before that he could do bad things. But I told him to his face that he was a coward.
“That’s why he was always with bodyguards with guns because anyone could take him one on one.”
Ojani told how Jennifer had grown close to Diddy when he helped produce her album On The 6 but denied cheating on him.
He said: “Everything was great and we were so in love.
“I was in charge of launching a nightclub in LA called The Conga Room which was part-owned by Jen, while she went off to make her debut album — On The 6 — in New York and Miami. That was when Diddy was drafted in to help produce several tracks.
“They knew each other way before the media reported they did.
“She started hanging out with Diddy more and more, and I started seeing her less and less.
“Then the rumours started. I still had a lot of friends working in Miami hotels who would call to say they had seen them hanging out and leaving together.
“She would tell me it was just work. But then a picture appeared in the US magazines of her sitting on Diddy’s lap at the pool of Miami Beach Hotel. We started to fight really badly as I knew she was cheating on me.”
As their marriage deteriorated, the final straw for Ojani was when his then-wife - who went on to marry Cris Judd, Marc Anthony and Ben Affleck - went on The Oprah Winfrey Show to tell the world she was "happily married".
He said: “We went to the Oscars and she was using me so she could pretend to everyone that everything was OK. It wasn’t. So we got divorced.”
