Arthur explained why all of his tweets were deleted after conspiracy theories linked him to Diddy’s sex trafficking and racketeering case.
Over the weekend, eagle-eyed fans noticed that all of the singer’s posts on X (formerly Twitter) had been deleted, leading to baseless speculation that the move was related to Puffy’s recent arrest.
After the uproar, Usher returned to the social media platform to set the record straight.
“Your account was hacked and you all ran away! [laughing face] See you tonight at the Intuit Dome,” he wrote on Sunday (September 22), ahead of his “Past Present Future” tour in Inglewood, California later that evening.
Your account was hacked and you all ran away with it! 😂😂😂 See you tonight at the Intuit Dome ✌🏾👀✌🏾
— Arthur Raymond IV (@Usher) September 22, 2024
Usher’s relationship with Diddy goes back more than 30 years, with the bad boy boss bringing the R&B legend under his wing as a teenager in the 1990s.
The “Confessions” singer reflected on his “pretty wild” experience living and working with Diddy in a 2016 interview with Howard Stern, revealing that he was at what was dubbed “Flavor Camp” I witnessed “strange things” somewhere.
“In the ’90s, I moved to New York and lived with Sean ‘Puffy’ Combs for a year. Do you know what that was like? Arthur said.
“I went there to see the way of life. I saw it. But I don’t know if I could wallow and understand what I was seeing. It was so wild. It was crazy. Very strange things happened. Things, but I don’t necessarily understand.
Stern ended the interview by asking, “You’re a father now. Would you send your kid to Puffy Camp?”
“God no,” Arthur replied bluntly.
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The singer was also embroiled in a civil lawsuit earlier this year over Diddy’s alleged sex crimes, when producer Lil Rod suggested Diddy sexually assaulted the Harlem-born mogul .
Lord claimed in the complaint that Puff Daddy “told him that he had sex with” an unnamed rapper, an unnamed R&B singer and “Bad Boy” producer Stevie J. Had sex.
Addendum describes the R&B singer as an artist who “performed at the Super Bowl” [sic] and had a successful residency in Vegas,” and the rapper is “a Philly rapper who dated Nicki Minaj,” a thinly veiled reference to Meek Mill and.
Arthur has yet to respond to the salacious accusations, but Meek was quick to refute them, describing them as “disgusting”.
