The NYPD admitted today that it provided Sean “Diddy” Combs with a police escort following a concert last week, a decision slammed by Mayor Bloomberg.
“The bottom line is the police department should treat everybody exactly the same. If you don’t get a police escort, P. Diddy shouldn’t,” Bloomberg said.
The mayor said he spoke with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly this morning after The Post’s Page Six reported that Sean “Diddy” Combs’ grand plan to helicopter to New Jersey for a $75,000 club appearance was grounded by the FAA — so he got a police escort to help get him there after his Manhattan concert on Friday night.
PAGE SIX: COPS ESCORT GROUNDED DIDDY
Diddy was due to chopper to Club 4 Sixty 6 in West Orange after his Hammerstein Ballroom show, but the FAA didn’t clear the use of the club’s helipad in time. So he demanded a police escort to get him through traffic.
The NYPD said one vehicle escorted the hip-hop mogul about a block to the tunnel.
John Mahdessian, owner of high-end couture dry-cleaning service Madame Paulette, who helped Diddy with clothes for the show, said, “This happened last-minute. I organized the police escort through my contacts.”
But Bloomberg said a police escort is only used in the event of “a security issue.”
“I would assume there was no reason for [the police escort], but I just don’t know,” said Bloomberg.
Lauren Berger Collection CEO Jeffrey Beri, who organized Diddy’s hotel stay, told The Post that P. Diddy “was stuck” so the police escort came in handy.
“The only way he could get there was by police escort,” he said.