Since the arrest, videos of celebrities talking about him have resurfaced, including a video of Rosie O’Donnell in 2000 joking about the rapper going to jail. While promoting her stint to host the 2000 Grammys, O’Donnell filmed a segment with TLC.
“Lot of multiple nominees — multiple Grammy nominees — this year. Lauryn Hill’s got four, TLC’s got eight and Sean Combs 5 to 10,” O’Donnell cracked.
“Get it? Like, he’s going to jail?”
O’Donnell clarified to HuffPost that her jokes were about a 1999 club shooting in which a woman claimed she saw Combs with a gun before she was shot in the face.
Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges and was denied bail. Several women have alleged that the rapper was abusive, including his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, who filed a lawsuit, claiming Combs raped her and forced her to have sex with male sex workers.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
