Mr. Combs settled the lawsuit one day after it was filed. When Mr. Parker was with the NYPD, he was the leader of a special unit focused on crime in the rap and hip-hop community. In May 1999, Interscope Records executive Steve Stoute accused Mr. Combs of bursting into his office and attacking him with two accomplices. Seven months later, Mr. Combs was arrested with
Jennifer Lopez after shots were fired at Club New York, a Times Square dance club. Allegations of intimate relations with minors that rival those lodged against Jeffrey Epstein will likely emerge against Mr. Combs as well, according to Mr. Parker. Mr. Epstein, who was jailed for allegedly sexually abusing multiple girls as young as 14 years old, died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in
New York in 2019. Mr. Combs’s attorney, Aaron Dyer, did not respond to requests for comment but previously issued a statement saying his client was never detained and that he spoke to and cooperated with authorities. The probe by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) includes allegations of firearm violations, which, Mr. Parker said is why guns were confiscated during the raid along with phones belonging to Mr. Combs. “They’re going to inspect the guns to see if they were used in any shootings because they can trace that,” Mr. Parker added. “They’re going to check to see if there’s any serial numbers that have been erased off of the guns and see if they were acquired illegally and if he was supposed to have possession of them or not. If he has a conviction or a felony, which he has, he may not qualify for possession.” The DHS did not respond to requests for comment before press time.