Sean Combs’ Bodyguard Claims Mogul Performed Bird Sacrifice Before His NYC Nightclub Shooting Verdict In 1999

Sean Combs’ former bodyguard, Gene Deal, revealed that the rap mogul sacrificed a bird in 1999 before receiving his verdict over a New York City nightclub shooting.

Combs stood trial alongside rapper Shyne, who is known now as Moses Michael Levi Barrow, following the shooting at a Manhattan nightclub club, which left three bystanders injured. 

In the newly released Hulu documentary The Honorable Shyne, Deal asserted that Combs was being driven to the Manhattan courthouse to hear the trial verdict when he stopped in Central Park to meet a mysterious man with a caged bird.

“When Puff [Combs’ nickname] got close to the guy, he just dropped down to his knees,” the bodyguard stated in the documentary, which began streaming on Nov. 18.

“Next thing I see is this smoke just going back and forth around Puff,” he added. “I guess it was sage or something like that.”

Deal said that the man held a Bible while praying and laying his hands on Combs, telling him to take the bird out of the cage.

“Puff took this white bird and threw it up in the air … The bird just fell to the ground, boom, like it was a brick,” he then mentioned. “I was like, ‘Oh, s–-!'”

“The bird died, man … the bird didn’t even move,” the bodyguard claimed. “[Combs] just walked away from him real quick.”

After the ominous sign, Combs proceeded to court – where he was acquitted of all charges over the shooting, including weapons possession and attempted bribery, after a seven-week trial.

Barrow was convicted of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a pistol and spent ten years in maximum security prison. He was then deported to his native home, Belize, Central America.

Combs is now in jail, facing trial for trafficking charges. But his schedule of court dates is lengthy these days. 

In February, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr. filed a lawsuit against Combs in U.S. federal court for the southern district of New York, in which he accused him of sexual harassment and assault. The rapper pushed back at the accusations.

On March 25, the Department of Homeland Security raided Combs’ Holmby Hills, California, and Miami mansions as part of a federal inquiry into trafficking allegations surrounding him. 

His lawyer declared in a statement that the raid was “nothing more than a witch hunt based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits.”

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