Supermodel Tyson Beckford is no fan of Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Beckford revealed the two have had beef for decades and the tension once escalated on the streets of New York City.
The former Sean John model currently stars on the Peacock and Bravo reality dating series Kings Court. During an interview Monday, July 21 on “The Breakfast Club,” Beckford recalled an altercation with Diddy he said happened sometime before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
The Jamaican-American model said the incident involved fashion stylist Groovey Lew, an associate of Combs at the time.
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Beckford was standing on a corner speaking with a friend outside a tattoo shop when Groovey Lew approached and asked the catwalk king to take a picture with the woman he was with.
“I said, ‘Yo, my man, I’m having a conversation,’” Beckford recalled, adding that the situation escalated into a fight.
“He started getting tough. I said, ‘Lew, don’t talk to me like that, we’re boys.’ Then he swung on me,” Beckford said. “I looked at my friend and I said, ‘Oh no he didn’t.’ So we got into a fight and I got to beating the brakes off that man.”
Beckford said he suffered cuts to the top of his head and needed six stitches. An NYPD officer was in the area, noticed the fight and asked what was going on but quickly left.
This is where the Diddy connection comes in. The model recalled Lew ran around the corner to the nearby Bad Boy Records offices and returned with Diddy and his “goons.”
Beckford said the friend he was standing there talking to ran away. But the model insisted he wasn’t afraid. He said he went to his Toyota Land Cruiser and grabbed a pistol grip Mossberg shotgun for protection.
“I said, ‘Look, I only got five [shells] in here,’” he recalled. “Puff, you’re going to get it first… I’m going to shower the rest of y’all with it. Then Puff went and called my manager and said, ‘Yo Ma, Yo Ma, your boy wild.’”
Ultimately, the confrontation ended without any shots being fired.
As Combs sits in jail waiting to be sentenced on Oct. 3, following his conviction on two federal transportation to engage in prostitution counts, Beckford joked that he could have “saved the world a whole lot of trouble and took him out back then. But then where would I be?”
“Breakfast Club” co-host Charlamagne Tha God asked if it was true that he sued Combs for allegedly failing to pay him for his Sean Jean modeling work.
Beckford said he won the case, but getting paid was another story.
“Yes. I don’t know what happened with that. I didn’t get the money,” he said. “He gave me one year of the money and then, karma.”
Watch the interview below. Tyson Beckford discusses the incident at the 21:30 mark:
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