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A Swat raid, a £30m lawsuit — and a bad rap for Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs

Prince Harry finds himself unfairly dragged into sex abuse claims against the rapper formerly known as P Diddy. Damian Whitworth on the mogul’s mayhem

Princes William and Harry with Sean “Diddy” Combs, right, and Kanye West in London in 2007
Princes William and Harry with Sean “Diddy” Combs, right, and Kanye West in London in 2007
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When one decides to leave one’s own country to live quietly in America as one half of a vast celebrity couple brand-building operation, it can lead to all sorts of unanticipated downsides. One of them, as Prince Harry has discovered, is that once you are seen as the apogee of VIP glamour, lending royal rebel buzz to parties thrown by mere billionaire music magnates, you can get dragged into messes that had nothing to do with you.

So it is that the Duke of Sussex, who is blameless in the sordid allegations engulfing Sean “Diddy” Combs, finds himself named in one of the slew of lawsuits against the hip-hop mogul.

Combs is famous for his extravagant parties, and law enforcement officers appear to be focusing