L.A. Police Investigating Puff Daddy’s First Hit In Ten Years

Brian Raftery | February 28, 2007 9:50 am
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Not everybody had a dull time on Oscar night: According to TMZ.com, the LAPD are looking into an alleged Sunday-evening run-in between Diddy and a lowly commoner:

Gerard Rechnitzer was at a post-Oscar bash Sunday night with his fiancee at Teddy’s at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. At around 2 AM Monday morning, the 27-year-old Rechnitzer was on his way to the parking lot when he made a pit stop in the bathroom. When he walked out, he noticed his fiancee was surrounded by six men, including Combs. We’re told the 5’7″, 140 lb. Rechnitzer watched as Combs chatted up his girl for about five minutes, and then asked his fiancee to leave with him.

At that point, Combs allegedly told the woman he was having a party and invited her to come. Rechnitzer persisted and asked his fiancee again to leave with him. Combs then allegedly socked Rechnitzer in the jaw.

Ah yes, the old mac-and-whack* maneuver, in which a hot-tempered millionaire-playboy woos a lady the only way he knows how: By crowding her with his intimidating entourage, and then smacking around her boyfriend. Rechnitzer’s just lucky that Diddy wasn’t carrying around one of his oversized novelty champagne bottles.

* alleged whack.

P. Diddy Investigated for Assault & Battery [TMZ.com]

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