Sean "P. Diddy" Combs once professed to practice a surprising credo: "Make God first in your life," he advised. "Never have money." Some time later he gave his girlfriend, Jennifer Lopez, a $50,000 diamond engagement ring, an antique diamond bracelet, and a white mink coat.
[Combs should have heeded his own advice: In early 2001, he was indicted for allegedly bribing his driver, Wardel Fenderson, to claim ownership of a gun recovered from his car after his entourage was stopped by police as it fled from the scene a New York nightclub shooting. The bribe? $50,000 -- and Lopez's diamond ring! (Perhaps prophetically, Lopez once called the ring a symbol of their unbreakable love (even wearing it to bed): the relationship ended soon thereafter.)]
Sources
groupiecentral.com; Rolling Stone, 1997
