Jennifer Lopez’s first husband blames Diddy and ‘cheating’ for divorce

Jennifer Lopez’s first husband Ojani Noa, who met and married the megastar just as her career was taking off, is opening up about how her partnership and romance with Sean “Diddy” Combs went become a destructive force in their marriage.

Noa, a Cuban immigrant who met Lopez while working as a bartender in Miami, partly blames the music mogul for her 1998 divorce from Lopez after eleven months of marriage, Page Six reported. During an interview on Univision’s morning show, “Despierta America,” Noa explained the reasons for their breakup, saying that “Part of this divorce was Diddy’s fault.”

“When Sony came and paid him the millions he got, there was Puffy (Combs), who would be one of the producers of several tracks on (his) first album, ‘On The 6,'” he told the network in Spanish, according to page six. “That’s where the cheating, the lies, the separation began.”

Noa’s comments about her short marriage to Lopez come at a sensitive time for the movie star/singer/entrepreneur. Not only is she going through a high-profile divorce from husband no. 4, Ben Affleck, is facing scrutiny over his relationship with Combs as the Bad Boy Records producer is in federal custody and faces trial on sex-trafficking and racketeering conspiracy charges. She is among a number of A-listers who moved into the rapper’s orbit and were happy to be spotted at his infamous star-studded parties.

Combs has also been hit with more than 20 lawsuits from women and men, who claim he and his alleged accomplices, including at least two unnamed celebrity friends, sexually assaulted them while attending one of his parties, according to the New York Times.

The allegations cover incidents that began in the 1990s and continued through 2022, with some allegedly taking place during Lopez and Combs’ time as a high-flying celebrity couple from 1999 to 2001. This week, a 37-year-old woman filed a notice. lawsuit in federal court alleging that, as a 13-year-old girl, she was sexually assaulted by Combs, with the help of an unnamed male and female celebrity, at a party the mogul hosted after the MTV Video Music Awards 2000, Deadline reported. .

In a 19-page court statement, the woman said the assault happened after she went to an empty bedroom to lie down because she was feeling “faint and dizzy” from a drink she had been given. Shortly thereafter, Combs, “along with a male and female celebrity, entered the room,” where both Combs and the other man raped her while the woman watched.

In reporting on the woman’s lawsuit, which did not name names, Page Six and other outlets published photos of Combs with Lopez at the 2000 VMAs at Radio City Music Hall. Lopez was his date that night in September 2000. Dressed in a white T-shirt, pants and heels to match, the singer won the award that night for best dance video.

Lopez has yet to address the criminal and civil allegations against Combs; he has pleaded not guilty and denied all charges against him. In 1999, Lopez was also embroiled in another criminal controversy involving Combs. They were arrested in December of that year while fleeing a Manhattan nightclub after a shooting that left three people injured. Combs was tried in 2001 for the shooting and Lopez testified, but Combs was acquitted by a jury.

Lopez’s first husband is now speaking out about the role he believes Combs played in the marriage’s demise. Noa, an actor and personal trainer based in Miami, never remarried after his divorce from Lopez.