Will Smith, Jamie Foxx distance themselves from Sean 'Diddy' Combs — along with these other celebrities

It used to be cool for celebrities to attend a Sean “Diddy” Combs White Party. Now, it’s all about distancing themselves from the scandal-plagued hip-hop mogul.

As Combs awaits his May 5, 2025, trial date on federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges, big-name stars — like Will Smith and Jamie Foxx — who once palled around or partied with him are publicly disassociating themselves from the Bad Boy Entertainment founder, who has denied the allegations against him.

Will Smith

Big Willie’s style is to deny any connection to Combs and make him a punch line.

The actor and rapper was performing at the Observatory North Park in San Diego on Dec. 12 when, during a break, he spoke out about the memes circulating on the internet of him and Combs.

“I've been seeing your memes,” he told the crowd. “Some of that stuff is funny. Some of it’s funny. I haven't addressed any of this publicly, but I just want to say this very clearly, I don't have shit to do with Puffy so y'all can stop all them memes. Stop all of that bullshit. I ain’t go nowhere near no damn freak off.”

He continued, “Listen, I do enough of my own shit. Don't be putting me in other people's bullshit. I ain’t been nowhere near that man. I ain’t done none of that stupid shit. So whenever y’all hear it, if somebody say that, it's a damn lie.”

He then quipped, “I don't even like baby oil.”

When Combs’s homes were raided in March, 1,000 bottles of baby oil were seized. Prosecutors alleged in the indictment that Combs used the product in “freak offs,” during which female survivors were compelled through “force, threats of force, and coercion, to cause victims to engage in extended sex acts with male commercial sex workers.”

Smith ended his thoughts on Combs by saying that he doesn’t usually respond to “dumb-ass stuff” like that because “people say so much stuff” — especially in the last few years amid the 2022 Oscars slap and his separation from wife Jada Pinkett Smith. “But your memes was doing too much. Y'all was having me mad.”

Some of the memes of Smith and Combs are graphic and gross. While the men have been photographed together at events through the years, it doesn't appear that there are photos of them together at public events since 2011.

Jamie Foxx

The actor and comedian was also onstage when he separated himself from Combs.

During Netflix’s Jamie Foxx: What Had Happened Was…, which Foxx used to explain his 2023 health crisis, he addressed the internet rumor that Combs poisoned him.

“The internet said Puffy tried to kill me,” Foxx joked in the special that premiered on Dec. 10. “I know what you’re thinking: Did he? Hell no, n*****. I left those parties early. I was out by nine, n*****. Something don’t look right, n*****. It’s slippery in here,” also referring to baby oil.

Foxx also mentioned Combs when he said, while comatose and close to death, he saw a tunnel and that it was “hot,” making him wonder if he was going to hell instead of heaven.

“I thought I saw the devil, like, ‘Come on,’ or was it Puffy?” he joked. “If it was Puffy, he had a flaming bottle of Johnson’s [baby oil]... No, I’m just kidding.”

Foxx has also been photographed with Combs a lot through the years. He gave a speech at Combs’s Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony in 2008. In 2010, Combs told Time magazine that he, Foxx and Ashton Kutcher were once "a rat pack, hanging out, going to clubs.” In 2018, Foxx talked about their friendship on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, saying he followed Combs around filming his parties — presumably not the ones being investigated by the feds.

Ashton Kutcher

Speaking of Kutcher, Combs and That ’70s Show star had a well-known bromance in the 2000s. Kutcher even once co-hosted a White Party in 2009.

After Combs’s arrest, an old Kutcher video circulated in which the actor, married to Mila Kunis, said, “I’ve got a lot I can’t tell” about the goings-on at a Combs event.

That led a Kutcher source to tell People: “Ashton has no involvement in any of this. He doesn't belong in this conversation about Combs. Ashton has only seen Combs in a handful of social and business events, all of which have been documented by the media."

Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ashton Kutcher and Jamie Foxx in 2003. (Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)

Combs said in the same Time magazine article that once Kutcher got together with first wife Demi Moore, their “rat pack” days ended.

"I remember one night he was with Demi, maybe for the first time, and a couple of weeks later, he called to tell me he was in love,” Combs said. “That was the end of our clubbing.”

Ice Cube

The rapper said almost immediately after Combs’s arrest that while he knows him, they were pictured chatting at a basketball game 2017, he’s never been to a freak off.

“Almost 40 years rocking the mic, and I’mma tell you right now; me and [rapper] WC ain’t never been to a Combs party motherf***er,” he said during a show on Sept 22.

Ice Cube and Sean "Diddy" Combs at the 2006 BET Awards. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)

“You ain’t gotta worry about us on them motherf***ing tapes,” referring to alleged recordings Combs made for leverage over the women involved.

Justin Bieber

After Combs’s arrest, videos of a young Bieber hanging out with the older performer were widely circulated.

A source close to the singer told People at the time that while Bieber was aware of “all the allegations,” it’s “not anything that he wants to focus on” as he was focused on the birth of his first child, born in August.

Sean "Diddy" Combs with Justin Bieber at a charity concert for Haiti in 2010. (Larry Marano/Getty Images)

50 Cent

Curtis Jackson hasn’t been shy sharing his thoughts on the allegations against Combs — and is even making his own documentary about the claims against the “Victory” rapper.

While Jackson once helped ghostwrite some of Combs’s songs, including “Let’s Get It,” when he was starting out, “I’ve been very vocal about not going to Puffy parties and doing shit like that,” he told the Hollywood Reporter in July. “I’ve been staying out of that shit for years. It’s just an uncomfortable energy connected to it.”

Jackson talked about seeing the surveillance video showing Combs hitting then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, whose 2023 lawsuit against Combs set off this explosion of allegations.

“First, he denied that it even happened, and then the tape comes out — so that means everything that n**** says is a lie," he said.

Sean "Diddy" Combs and 50 Cent at a 2004 Grammy party. (Denise Truscello/WireImage for Universal Music Group)

While none of the celebrities mentioned here have been connected to Combs’s alleged misconduct, this week, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was accused in a lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Combs in 2000. Carter has vehemently denied the allegations.

Earlier this year, Cuba Gooding Jr. was named a co-defendant in a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit filed against Combs by music producer Rodney "Lil Rod" Jones. Gooding has also denied the allegations.