The brother of the 1991 celebrity basketball game's stampede has spoken up about the legal troubles Sean "Diddy" Combs is now facing decades after the tragedy and called it "karma."
The embattled rap mogul backed the charity event at a Harlem basement gymnasium on December 28, 1991, and a stampede killed nine people and at least 29 others injured.
One of the victims was the then-20-year-old college student Dirk Swain.
Sean "Diddy" Combs Faces Karma Decades After the Stampede?
Speaking with The New York Post, Dirk's brother, Jason, opened up about karma amid Diddy's s-- trafficking case.
"He never really owned up to anything, he never told us he was sorry, Whatever is going on with him now, I guess it was meant to be. But me, I lost everything that day. I lost my big brother. I lost my best friend," said Jason.
He made a documentary exploring the disaster while keeping his brother's memory alive through the years. He reportedly blamed more people other than Diddy, including the attendees and police, for causing the disaster.
Before Diddy launched Bad Boy Records, his label at the time, Uptown Records, fired him due to the extreme backlash following the stampede.
According to Diddy's then-bodyguard Gene Deal, the record executive looked distraught after he was ousted.
"We put him on suicide watch," Deal informed Vlad TV. "I think he was on suicide watch because he thought he lost everything."
Dirk and Jason's mother, Barbara, told the Daily News years after the incident that she wanted to see Diddy step up and admit his mistake.
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What Happened During the 1991 Stampede
In a report posted by The Daily Beast, Sharmayne Jones revealed she still felt traumatized after what happened.
"If I go to a concert, if I'm not in the first five rows, I'm not going. I don't do large crowds; I don't do larger rooms," she said, adding, "Even to this day, I still have lower back pain from that. I didn't want to go to the hospital because I was just like, 'I'm OK, some people lost their lives-at the end of the day I'm alive and I have my life.' But that's definitely something that I had nightmares for weeks, because of the screaming, people were looking for their friends, it was a horror show."
Attendees reportedly pressed against the walls and "packed in like sardines" when the doors to the gym opened. An announcement was soon made regarding the cancelation of the event, confirming the deaths of three people.
More deaths were confirmed after the stampede.
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