Younger audiences may not be aware — or may not remember — but Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs were among the hottest couples around as the 20th century came to a close. Between 1999 and 2001, Lopez and Combs — better known as Diddy — embarked on a rollercoaster romance, splitting and then getting back together multiple times before calling it quits when Combs ran afoul of the law.

More than two decades later, Combs has encountered more trouble with law enforcement. The hip-hop mogul is the subject of a federal sex trafficking investigation, as well as a host of lawsuits focused on physical and sexual assault. Lopez, enduring personal strife of her own with husband Ben Affleck, has not chimed in on Diddy’s issues with the law — until now.

Diddy is a “very damaged human being”

A source close to Lopez has told the Daily Mail that “Jenny from the Block” is “disgusted” with Diddy, whose legal woes have only grown in 2024. Lopez has referred to her ex-boyfriend as a “very damaged human being” in light of resurfaced footage that shows Diddy violently assaulting another ex, Cassie Ventura, in Los Angeles eight years ago.

According to the source, Lopez does not intend to publicly address the Ventura video — or any other of Diddy’s alleged transgressions — as it is “not her story to tell.”

Lopez and Combs’ relationship ended in 2001, when the producer and entrepreneur was acquitted on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and possession of stolen property that stemmed from a 1999 shooting outside a nightclub in New York City. The source contacted by the Daily Mail claimed that Lopez “put so much trust in” Combs at one point in her life, but that chapter has long been closed, and the two stars embarked on different trajectories in the intervening years.