Daphne Joy issued a statement after a sex tape featuring her with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and another man was leaked.
The model, 39, said in a now-deleted post that she ‘broke her own boundaries’ to please Diddy, 56, who is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
“Everybody plays the fool sometime, and I have been the biggest fool,” she wrote in a since-deleted Instagram statement on Monday (1 June).
“I just wanted my man at the time to be happy and satisfied… I wanted to fulfill all his desires… even if that meant breaking my own boundaries. I deeply loved him… and I believed he loved me too.”
She added: “It’s still so painful for me to process the harsh reality and truth of that relationship, but as time passes and in my quiet moments, I realize that it was far from love.”
Model Daphne Joy has reacted to the leak of a sex tape featuring her with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Abyss By Abby)
Joy, who reportedly dated Diddy from 2021 until his arrest in 2024, said she was ‘never consented’ to being filmed.
“I was blackmailed by the person in the video and was threatened that if I didn’t give him the lump sum of money that they would leak it on the web,” the actress, who shares son Sire Jackson, 13, with rapper 50 Cent, explained.
“l almost gave in to this demand, and once I didn’t, this person eventually sold this tape to a giant media outlet.
“Once the media company understood the tape they purchased was revenge porn and an extortion scheme, they backed off from broadcasting it.
Diddy is serving a 50-month prison sentence on two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution (Bryan Steffy/WireImage)
“I know they are probably reading this, and I want to say thank you for doing the right thing… even though years later… it’s come back to haunt me again.”
Daphne said the tape was ‘triggering and painful’ to revisit.
“I knew the inner turmoil and pressures I felt in those moments,” she added.
“I was not and was never in my right mind throughout the entirety of that relationship. Seeing myself so lost is excruciating.
“I just want to hold that girl in that room and get her out of there… and tell her that wasn’t love and she didn’t need to do this for love. My heart is breaking as I type this.”
50 Cent responds to sex tape
Joy shares son Sire Jackson, 13, with rapper 50 Cent (John Lamparski/Getty Images)
Taking to Instagram, 50 Cent appeared to hit out at Joy, writing: “She’s not a victim, SIRE is can you imagine going to eighth grade to find out this is your mom. The court system in LA thinks it’s fine.”
In a separate post aimed at Combs, he added: “Free Diddy he has gone through enough being born with no penis. LOL.”
Diddy has filed a lawsuit against 50 Cent and Netflix over the 2026 documentary, Sean Combs: The Reckoning.
Daphne Joy named in 2024 lawsuit against Diddy
In 2024, Joy was mentioned in a lawsuit from Diddy’s former producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones, in which he claimed that she was allegedly on a list of women paid to ‘act as Mr. Combs’ sex worker’.
Joy said at the time: “I am deeply hurt by the lies in Rodney Jones’ lawsuit. The claim that I am sex worker is 100 percent false and character assassination.
“I am retaining an attorney to explore all legal remedies against both Rodney and his attorney.”
LADbible Group has contacted representatives of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Daphne Joy for comment.
Published 10:15 5 Jun 2025 GMT+1
50 Cent hits out at podcast host after making suggestion about his ex-partner and Diddy ‘freak-offs’
The rapper was not impressed about his ex-partner’s name being mentioned alongside Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
50 Cent has hit out at a podcast host who suggested his ex-partner was involved in one of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ alleged ‘freak off’ parties.
Disgraced rapper and hip hop producer Combs is currently on trial in New York facing charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to engage in prostitution – which he denies.
The trial has seen various claims around Combs’ personal life, including his ‘freak off’ parties, come to light through testimonies from his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and male escort Sharay Hayes, who is also known as ‘The Punisher’.
Following the conclusion of his testimony Hayes has been speaking about his encounters with Combs in the media, recently appearing as a guest on rapper Cam’ron’s podcast Talk With Flee.
It was during this conversation that the topic of 50 Cent‘s, real name Curtis Jackson, former partner Daphne Joy and her alleged connection to Combs came up.
50 Cent, real name Curtis Jackson, and Daphne Joy dated between 2011 and 2012 and share a son together (Instagram/50 Cent)
“We hear about 50’s baby mama Daphne being involved in some of these things,” he asked, referring to the ‘freak offs’, before adding: “Did you ever f**k Daphne?”
“Nah, every time I was called or involved in any way, it was only Cassie, specifically,” Hayes replied.
The mention of his former partner’s name didn’t sit too well with Jackson, who took to Instagram and issued the following comment aimed at Cam’ron: “Well here come the bullsh**, don’t kiss my boy Pee Pee Mouth.”
Joy was previously linked Diddy in 2024 after producer Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones named her and others in a lawsuit, which is separate to Combs’ ongoing New York trial, suggesting Joy was one of many women who received a monthly stipend from Combs in exchange for sex work.
Joy later denied the allegations on social media, calling the inclusion of her name ‘false and character assassination’.
“I am deeply hurt by the lies in Rodney Jones’ lawsuit,” she wrote on Instagram at the time.
50 Cent has spoken out against Diddy numerous times (Shareif Ziyadat/Getty Images)
She continued: “The claim that I am a sex worker is 100 percent false and character assassination.
“I am retaining an attorney to explore all legal remedies against both Rodney and his attorney.”
Joy was in a relationship with 50 Cent between 2011 and 2012 and the pair share a 12-year-old son, Sire Jackson, together.
Updated 09:27 21 Oct 2024 GMT+1Published 08:29 21 Oct 2024 GMT+1
50 Cent speaks out defending decision to share what happened at Diddy’s parties ‘for last 10 years’
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is behind bars awaiting trial on sex trafficking and racketeering charges
50 Cent says he has been speaking out against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs for years and has defended himself for doing so.
Diddy is currently behind bars at the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, awaiting trial.
The 54-year-old pleaded not guilty on 17 September after being accused of using his ‘power and prestige’ to drug sex workers during his alleged ‘Freak Off’ parties.