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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jamie Foxx Says Diddy Accusations Hurt The Black Community: 'That Was Our Hero'
Jamie Foxx isn't holding back when it comes to Sean 'Diddy' Combs and the mountain of legal trouble currently surrounding the music mogul. The Academy Award winning actor and comedian pegged him as 'nasty' as part of a recent standup bit. During an appearance at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles, Foxx lit into Diddy with a sharp mix of humor and disbelief, taking jabs at the disgraced rapper amid his ongoing federal sex trafficking and racketeering investigation. 'That Diddy sh*t crazy, huh?' Foxx opened, prompting laughter and humored reactions from the crowd. Referring to the now-infamous 2024 federal raids of Combs' properties—where agents allegedly confiscated a suspiciously large amount of baby oil—Foxx took the jokes further. 'I don't know if he's going to jail but he's a nasty motherf**ker! Am I right? Especially for our community. White people, it's cool, but for Black people, like, that was our hero! All that goddamn baby oil, boy.' Foxx didn't stop there. He reflected on the cultural impact of Diddy, noting the fall from grace hits harder for the Black community. 'For the Black people in here, you know how that hurts us. 'Cause Diddy was, 'It's all about the Benjamins.' That was our whole culture. Now, 'It's all about the baby oil.'' This isn't the first time Foxx has referenced the embattled Bad Boy CEO. In his comedy special What Had Happened Was, Foxx joked about wild internet rumors tying Diddy to his 2023 medical emergency. 'The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that's what the internet was saying,' he told the audience. 'I know what you thinking, 'Diddy?' Hell no, I left them parties early.' Foxx is currently on a run promoting What Had Happened Was and recently appeared in the Netflix comedy Back In Action opposite Cameron Diaz. Hear audio of Foxx's remarks about Combs below. More from Judge Warns Diddy He Could Be Kicked Out Of Court For His "Absolutely Unacceptable" Behavior Bryana Bongolan, Cassie's Friend, Testifies Diddy Threatened Her Life And Said "I Can Kill You" 50 Cent Reacts To Cam'ron Asking Male Sex Worker About His Son's Mother, Daphne Joy
Indian Express
10-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Jamie Foxx breaks down as he talks about his near-death experience at BET 2025: ‘I saw the memoriam and thought that I could be there'
There are a few artists in the world who can boast a career like Jamie Foxx. He has shared the screen with some of the most iconic movie stars in the world and featured on songs with the biggest names in the music industry. To honour that very career and his contributions to the arts, he was facilitated with the Ultimate Icon Award at the BET awards this year. Jamie thanked his fans and delivered a very personal acceptance speech in which he talked about his health struggles and how the actor almost lost his life recently. While accepting the award, Jamie acknowledged the love and praise he has received from people and said, 'I cannot begin to express the love that I feel from everyone out here.' A fan promptly screamed out, 'We love you, Jamie,' and the actor had to take a moment to gather himself. He continued, 'When I saw that memoriam, I thought about how that could have been me. I don't know why I went through and whatever I went through, but I know that I am not going to turn down this second chance.' The actor then moved on to talking about his two daughters, who were in the audience and how they gave him the strength to get back up. ALSO READ: Blake Lively opens up on emotional turmoil caused by Justin Baldoni's lawsuit, reacts to dismissal: 'I've felt the pain' He said, 'My beautiful daughter Corrine, you have always taken the backseat in things, but when you needed to drive it, you drove, and you made sure I was here. Anelise Estelle Fox, my baby with the big hair. The doctors said that I might not survive, and she overheard it. She then came in to my hospital room with her guitar and said, 'I know what my daddy needs.'' In another video posted by Jamie on the internet, he talked about his health and told his fans that the reason there were no updates or news from his end was because he didn't want anyone to see him like that. He had initially opened up about his illness back in 2023, when he suffered a stroke due internal bleeding in his brain. On the professional front, Foxx was last seen in the film Tin Soldier and the Netflix flick Back In Action. Though both movies failed to make a mark on the minds of the audience and weren't very well received, fans of the actor will be hoping to see the Django Unchained actor back on his acting steed soon.
Black America Web
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Black America Web
Jamie Foxx Finally Responds To The Conspiracy Theory That Diddy Caused His 2023 Health Scare
Source: Sean 'Diddy' Combs is currently on trial in New York City and may be found guilty of numerous crimes, but one thing he's not guilty of is an attempt on Jamie Foxx's life. In 2023, Foxx experienced a 'medical emergency' the details of which were at first concealed from the public. As time went on that summer, Foxx's hospitalization and stint in rehab without explanation led to numerous conspiracy theories among his fans. One of those theories is that Diddy had something to do with his mysterious health issue. Foxx ultimately explained what happened when he collapsed on the set of Back In Action , a Netflix movie he was filming at the time in Atlanta. In his Netflix standup comedy show, What Had Happened Was, he said that he woke up in the hospital days later. And he says that had his sister not quickly intervened and an Atlanta doctor rushed him into surgery, he would have died. In a comedian's roundtable with The Hollywood Reporter, with Seth Meyers, Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler and Roy Wood, he talks about the numerous drugs he was prescribed in the hospital. After sneaking into his phone for a connection to the outside world, Foxx found out the world thought he'd been cloned and that Diddy tried to kill him. 'Yeah, it was, 'This is for your pain, and this is so you don't remember it.' So, they Men in Black -ed me, and I'm f-cked up, and this isn't funny, but I snuck in my phone because I didn't know what the outside world was saying, and I couldn't get my mind around the fact that I had a stroke. I'm in f-cking perfect shape. [I see things like,] 'Puffy tried to kill me.' No, Puffy didn't try to kill me.' Diddy and his parties were once so significant in entertainment circles that many celebs have been photographed with him and/or attended one of his bashes, including his famous white parties. However, Foxx, who is known for his own lavish events, said that he always left Diddy's parties early. He joked about it in his Netflix special. 'The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that's what the internet was saying,' Foxx said at the show, which was taped in Atlanta in 2024. 'I know what you thinking, 'Diddy?' Hell no, I left them parties early.' Fox has fully recovered from what he described as a brain bleed that led to a stroke. Swift action by an Atlanta doctor he thanks in the special saved his life, as did his sister's instinct that led her to take him to the right place. After his role as a producer for the Apple TV+ series, Number One On The Call Sheet, a two-part documentary marking the ascension of Black actors and actresses released in March, Foxx is starring in Tin Soldier with Robert DeNiro and Scott Eastwood and All-Star Weekend with Gerard Butler and Robert Downey Jr. Both are expected to be released this year. See how social media reacted to Foxx opening up about his medical scare on his Netflix special below. SEE ALSO Jamie Foxx Finally Responds To The Conspiracy Theory That Diddy Caused His 2023 Health Scare was originally published on Black America Web Featured Video CLOSE
New York Post
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Jamie Foxx opens up on the conspiracy theory that Diddy tried to kill him
Jamie Foxx has broken his silence on the conspiracy theory alleging Sean 'Diddy' Combs orchestrated the 2023 medical emergency that had him 'within an inch of his life.' The 'Ray' actor said that while in the hospital, sedated on a cocktail of pain medications, he was able to sneak his phone and find out what the world was saying about him, he told a Hollywood Reporter roundtable Thursday. 'I didn't know what the outside world was saying and I couldn't get my mind around the fact that I had a stroke. I'm in f–king perfect shape. [I see things like,] 'Puffy tried to kill me,'' Foxx, 57, recalled. 3 Sean P. Diddy Combs and Jamie Foxx during The 11th Annual Rock the Vote Awards Show and After Party at The Palladium in Hollywood, California, in February 2004. FilmMagic 'No, Puffy didn't try to kill me.' However, what caused him to 'flip' out was when he read the conspiracy theory that he was cloned. 'When they said I was a clone, that made me flip. I'm sitting in the hospital bed, like, 'These bitch-ass motherf–kers are trying to clone me,'' the comic joked. Even while heavily medicated and still trying to figure out what caused his medical emergency, the Oscar-winning actor didn't miss a beat, using his comedic chops to lighten up the situation. 'The next morning, I said, 'I know what's up, you're trying to clone me and make me white so I'll sell better overseas.' The psychiatrist says, 'Are you all right?' And I say, 'Am I all right or am I all white? I saw you trying to get the white motherf–king Jamie Foxx and it ain't going to happen.' He just calmly goes, 'I think we're going to lower your dosage,'' Foxx quipped. 3 Foxx attends the 'Back In Action' Berlin Special Screening at Zoo Palast on Jan. 15, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. WireImage While the 'Django Unchained' star has shot down any conspiracy theory about Combs causing his medical emergency, it's not the first time he's brought it up publicly. Foxx previously addressed the rumors that the disgraced Bad Boy Records founder tried to kill him in his 2024 Netflix stand-up special, 'What Had Happened Was.' 'The internet said Puffy was trying to kill me, that's what the internet was saying. I know what you thinking, 'Diddy?'' Foxx joked on stage. 'Hell no, I left them parties early.' 3 Combs and Foxx attend the Ladylike Foundation's 9th Annual Women Of Excellence Awards Gala at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on June 3, 2017 in Beverly Hills. Getty Images The beloved comic told the audience that he always was 'out by 9' whenever Combs threw a party — sharing that 'something [didn't] look right' as the evenings would get later. Foxx quipped, 'It's slippery in here.' Combs, who was arrested in September 2024 and is currently on trial for sex trafficking and racketeering, is alleged to have had wild sex performances dubbed 'Freak-Offs' at his parties over the years. He faces life in prison if convicted. In his comedy special, Foxx said a brain bleed caused him to have a stroke, which led to his April 2023 hospitalization. He detailed the 'medical complication' that nearly killed him and caused him to lose 20 days of memory after a 'bad headache,' before waking up in a wheelchair in the hospital, where doctors told him he was 'within an inch of his life' when he first arrived. The Grammy winner credited his sister Deidra Dixon with getting him the help he needed, as well as his daughter Anelise for saving his life by keeping him calm as a 'spiritual defibrillator.'
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Feds Indict ‘47 Ronin' Director Who Scammed Netflix Out Of Millions For Never-Made TV Series
Federal prosecutors have indicted Carl Rinsch for allegedly ripping off Netflix for $11 million for a long promised sci-fi series that was never made. In a case with Keanu Reeves cameos, some bad crypto deals, a pledge to be able to control lightening, five Rolls-Royces and a scathing portrait of an industry drunk on its own content needs, the 47 Ronin director is looking at likely the rest of his life behind bars if found guilty. 'Carl Rinsch allegedly stole more than $11 million from a prominent streaming platform to finance lavish purchases and personal investments instead of completing a promised television series,' FBI Assistant Director Leslie Backschies said Tuesday of Netflix a.k.a 'Streaming Company-1' in the 12-page indictment, as the indictment was made pubic. 'The FBI will continue to reel in any individual who seeks to defraud businesses.' More from Deadline 'Adolescence' Leads Netflix TV Charts In Debut Week; 'Back In Action' Secures Spot On Most Popular Film List 'Sirens': Netflix Reveals Premiere Date, First-Look Images For Limited Series Starring Julianne Moore Gabrielle Dennis & Michael Potts Join Courtney A. Kemp's Netflix Crime Drama 'Nemesis' As Series Regulars Arrested today in L.A., the 47-year-old Rinsch is 'charged with one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; one count of money laundering, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and five counts of engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison,' according to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York. In ways that seem almost impossible to imagine in this era of leaner budgets, more streamlined needs and less production overall, Rinsch's alleged conduct and crimes would make a pretty good six-episode series on a streamer, or a Netflix True Crime documentary. After burning through $44 million of the streamer's cash for 'White Horse' and holding final-cut power, Rinsch demanded another $11 million off the company in 2020. The director said the funds were for various and pre-and post-production' needs to complete the series., Having seen next to nothing since Cindy Holland scooped up White Horse, renamed Conquest, from Amazon in 2018 for over $61 million, Netflix gave the director the money with what one assumes was a hope and a prayer. A year later, with absolutely nothing to show for it but aggravation, Netflix pulled the plug on the project. The streamer later wrote off over $55 million in costs. Netflix won a $12 million arbitration ruling against Rinsch last year after the filmmaker claimed that the company actually owned him $14 million. Rinsch doesn't seem to have paid up. Before all this ended up in court, the filmmaker took Netflix's cash that had been deposited in a bank account in the name of the 'Rinsch Company' and moved it around to a variety of other accounts and locations. After a slew of bad market trades, Rinsch blew through around half the $11 million in less than a year. Regaling Netflix execs with tales that White Horse/Conquest was 'awesome and moving forward really well,' Rinsch then went on a spending spree. The inventory put together by SDNY prosecutors and the Kash Patel-run FBI listed a real champagne tastes and caviar dreams mentality. Rinsch used the money he had left 'to speculate on cryptocurrency, and on personal expenses and luxury items, including approximately $1,787,000 on credit card bills; approximately $1,073,000 on lawyers to sue Streaming Company-1 for even more money, and for lawyers related to his divorce; approximately $395,000 to stay at the Four Seasons hotel and at various luxury rental properties; approximately $3,787,000 on furniture and antiques, including approximately $638,000 to purchase two mattresses and approximately $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens; approximately $2,417,000 to purchase five Rolls-Royces and one Ferrari; and approximately $652,000 on watches and clothing.' With Rinsch set to go before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff Tuesday, Netflix had no comment on today's indictment when contacted by Deadline. Best of Deadline James Mangold's 'A Complete Unknown': Everything We Know About The Bob Dylan Biopic So Far 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery Epic Universe: The Latest Images Of The New Universal Orlando Theme Park
