Fans of Jennifer Lopez eager to get her autograph were left disappointed last weekend when she reportedly abruptly ended a signing after someone in the crowd asked her about her longtime ex-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs some time ago and about sex-trafficking allegations against him.

Lopez attended a screening and Q&A for her new film, “Unstoppable,” at AFI Fest 2024 in Los Angeles, reported Mirror US. The screening took place on Saturday, and the college sports drama was produced by Lopez’s estranged husband Ben Affleck and his production company with Matt Damon.

But during an autograph event for “Unstoppable,” Lopez faced an uncomfortable question about another famous ex, the Mirror said. As the singer and actor tried to greet fans, someone in the crowd asked, “J. Look, do you have any comment on P. Diddy and the allegations?”

Lopez immediately stopped signing autographs, The Mirror reported. She and her team began to move away from the crowd. People in the crowd shouted after her, “Don’t go,” but she walked out the door, “out of sight,” Mirror said.

This uncomfortable moment comes as Lopez is in the process of divorcing Affleck. Meanwhile, she continues to remain silent about disturbing sexual assault allegations against Combs, whom she dated from 1999 to 2001. The music mogul and founder of Bad Boy Records has been in federal custody since September and faces a trial for sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. taxes.

Combs has also been hit with more than 20 lawsuits from women and men who claim he and his alleged accomplices sexually assaulted them when they attended his infamous parties.

Lopez has faced scrutiny over her relationship with Combs since his Sept. 16 arrest. The allegations in the lawsuits cover incidents that began in the 1990s and continued through 2022, some of which allegedly took place while Lopez and Combs were a high-flying celebrity couple.

Perhaps most inconvenient for Lopez are the allegations that came in a federal lawsuit filed last week. A 37-year-old woman claims that, aged 13, Combs sexually assaulted her – with the help of an unnamed male and female celebrity – at a party the mogul hosted after the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards . Although the lawsuit did not identify Combs’ alleged celebrity accomplices, Lopez was Combs’ date for the 2000 VMAs, and she won the award that September night for best dance video.

This week, newly discovered photos were released in the Daily Mail, purporting to show Lopez and Combs attending a star-studded after-party for the 2000 VMAs. The awards ceremony was held on September 7, 2000 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, during that the after party was held at the now defunct Lotus nightclub.

The photos show Lopez and Combs in a heated confrontation, with Lopez appearing to yell at the rapper, the Daily Mail said. A party guest told the Daily Mail that the altercation ended with Combs leaving the nightclub with his entourage and a group of women.

The alleged attack on the 13-year-old girl reportedly took place later that night at a home. The Daily Mail said the timing of the attack adds “a troubling layer” to the evening’s events and raises questions about the dynamics of the relationship between Lopez and Combs at a time now overshadowed by serious allegations.

In 1999, Lopez was 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.

Over the years, Lopez hasn’t said much about her relationship with Combs, though she described it as “stormy” and “emotionally exhausting” toward the end. She also said they broke up “many times,” would get back together, then break up again.

Lopez’s first husband, Ojani Noa, whom the megastar met and married just as her career was taking off recently blamed Combs for the breakup of their marriage in 1998 after 11 months.

In an interview with Univision, Noa, a Cuban immigrant who met Lopez while working as a waiter in Miami, said, “Part of that divorce was Diddy’s fault.”

“When Sony came and paid him the millions he got, it was Puffy (Combs), who was going to be one of the producers of several tracks on the first album (‘On The 6’),” Noa told press in Spanish, according to page six. “That’s where the cheating, the lies, the breakup started.”