Well, this hot rumor just went from the “wouldn’t it be funny” ballpark into the arena of “holy crap this may actually be happening.”
Could it be true? Is Diddy really dating his own son’s ex-girlfriend??
Let’s rewind…
Back in March, in a now-deleted Instagram video of the hip hop mogul at a reggae show, fans couldn’t help but notice the young woman behind him was none other than Lori Harvey.
That’s right. Lori Harvey, who used to date Diddy’s son Justin Combs.
But hey, maybe she was just there as a family friend like sources close to Diddy told TMZ at the time, right? Diddy was celebrating Biggie Day and had a big entourage with him. It’s plausible.
So rumors barely got going long enough to die down.
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But last week something happened which didn’t seem quite so easy to explain away.
Paparazzi caught Lori heading into celebrity sushi hotspot Nobu in Malibu. Clever Internet investigators over at The YBF noted the car she arrived in was Diddy’s silver Maybach!
They even claimed a photographer source spotted Diddy right behind her — but that he ducked back into the car when he saw the cameras!
Now if that’s true, it suddenly doesn’t feel like there’s any chance of an innocent explanation. Or should we say… a good answer??
Yeah, we may have forgotten to mention, but the 22-year-old beauty also happens to be Steve Harvey‘s daughter!
Ooof.
If Steve did find out the 49-year-old father of one of his daughter’s boyfriends had started dating her, how would he feel? Would we see a Family Feud for real?
Diddy certainly doesn’t seem too ready to advertise the love connection. Of course, he may have someone else in mind to keep it hidden from…
OK, cut to Wednesday night and our best evidence so far.
Around midnight Diddy and Lori were spotted walking together in NYC — and by spotted we mean actually photographed together this time!
Not only that, they were even kind of wearing matching outfits — white tops with navy and white vertical striped bottoms — though that could have been a weird accident.
Hilariously, folks couldn’t help but point out how Diddy didn’t exactly look happy to see photographers; he had kind of a deer in headlights thing going.
That only added to the laugh Twitter was having about the whole thing.
See some of the funniest reactions (below)!
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