A former reporter for the East Hampton Star shared with the New York Post the time he snuck into one of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ parties in the Hamptons
A reporter for the East Hampton Star told the New York Post he snuck into a Diddy Party back in 1999 at his East Hampton mansion.
Chris Harris was 22 at the time was finishing up a surf session at Bridgehampton’s Mecox Beach when he overhead two me talking about how they needed to go home and get ready for “Puffy’s barbecue.” Sean “Diddy” Combs who has gone by a number of stage names over the years was still going by his old moniker of Puff Daddy back then.
Harris said when he overheard this from the two men he sprinted to his 1991 Volkswagen Jetta and headed to Diddy’s 4,500 square foot mansion in East Hampton. He said that his only intention was to stand outside the party and write down the names of the arriving guests in the hopes of writing a story about the party.
Harris said that Diddy was “ever-present throughout the night” and was dressed in while and gold chains with a bottle of champagne in his hands. ( Image: WireImage for MAC Cosmetics)
He said he never would have imagined that he’d end up attending the party with such hip-hop legends as Jay-Z.
Harris said he grabbed whatever shirt he had in the back of his car which was a wrinkled balled up shirt in his back seat. He stood with fans and paparazzi outside the home on Hedges Banks Drive. A blond woman approached him and ask if he wanted to get into the party. Harris responded “You know it.”
She said she had spotted a name on the guest list “Ted Ammon +1” while she was standing next to one the security guards.
Oddly enough Ammon would later be found dead two years later inside of his Hamptons estate on Oct. 22, 2001. He was beaten to death in his bed by his estranged wife’s boyfriend. The case would make headlines for years to come.
The blond woman and Harris made their way past security and the woman made a beeline for the backyard bar. Harris said the R&B music was deafening, blasted by 20 speakers spread out across the backyard. Q-Tip of the group A Tribe Called Quest was in the DJ booth and Harris quipped that “The air smelled like Willie Nelson’s tour bus,” and there were fully nude and topless women filling the swimming pool as models handed guest champagne. Harris said the food line was extremely slow but well worth is saying “I’ve yet to find a better-tasting hot dog.”
Only stars were allowed inside the home, Harris said, a home which which Diddy sold in 2020 for $4.7 million.
The servers were all dressed in white golf shirts bearing a “PD” logo on the front. Harris says Jugglers magicians walking around and “scantily-glad women gyrated atop wooden platforms.”
Harris said that Diddy was “ever-present throughout the night” and was dressed in while and gold chains with a bottle of champagne in his hands. He posed for photos with the likes of Busta Rhymes, Russell Simons, Ivanka Trump, as well as “Baywatch” stars Carmen Electra and Elisa Bridges.
Only stars were allowed inside the home, Harris said, a home which which Diddy sold in 2020 for $4.7 million.
Harris said he was never questioned as to who he was at any point in the evening and even went as far as to flirt with Carmen Electra and said he got a “contact high” from hanging out with Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes.
He said that he even thanked Diddy for throwing “one hell of a party” and shook his hand. Diddy responded with “Okay, yeah.”
Harris added that he saw no lubricant, no sex toys and no “pink cocaine” but did see a few people passed out, including the blond woman who had helped him get in the party. He said that he doesn’t know if Ted Ammon ever showed up to the party but Harris added that he likes to think he did.
