In 1991, Combs promoted an AIDS fundraiser with Heavy D held at the City College of New York (CCNY) gymnasium, following a charity basketball game. In his college days Combs had a reputation for throwing parties, some of which attracted up to a thousand participants. While working as a talent director at Uptown, he helped develop Jodeci and Mary J. A billboard of Combs is in the distance.Ĭombs became an intern at New York's Uptown Records in 1990. Career 1990–1996: Career beginnings īad Boy headquarters on Broadway near Times Square. In 2014, he returned to Howard University to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and deliver the University's 146th Commencement Address. Ĭombs was a business major at Howard University but left after his sophomore year.
Combs said he was given the nickname "Puff" as a child, because he would "huff and puff" when he was angry. He played football for the academy and his team won a division title in 1986. Ĭombs graduated from Mount Saint Michael Academy in 1987. At age 33, Melvin was shot to death while sitting in his car on Central Park West, when Sean was two years old.
Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas. Raised in Mount Vernon, New York, his mother Janice Combs ( née Smalls) was a model and teacher's assistant and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, served in the U.S. Sean John Combs was born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on November 4, 1969.
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