Accused sex trafficker Sean “Diddy” Combs sacrificed a bird for luck while on his way to hear the outcome of his trial in 1999. New York nightclub shootinghis former bodyguard told in a new documentary.

The music mogul was being led to court in Manhattan when he stopped in Central Park to meet a mysterious man with a caged bird, his former muscle, Gene Deal, told the new Hulu documentary about the case: “The Honorable Shyne.”

“When Puff got to the guy, he dropped to his knees,” Deal said, using the nickname Combs used at the time.

“The next thing I see is this smoke going back and forth around Puff. I think it was sage or something.”

The man was holding a Bible as he put a hand on Combs and told him to get the bird out of the cage, Deal claimed in the documentary, which began airing Monday.

“Puff picked up this white bird and threw it in the air… The bird just fell to the ground, boom, like it was a brick,” Deal said. “I was like, ‘Oh shit!’

“The bird died, man… the bird didn’t even move. (Combs) just got away from him real quick.”

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

His sidekick, rapper Shyne — the subject of the Hulu doc ​​— was found guilty of assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a handgun and spent 10 years in prison. He was then deported to his native Belize, where he is a politician now known as Moses Michael Levi Barrow.

Barrow has long accused Combs of getting him to accept the firing, accusing the powerful mogul of “ruining my life.”

“I defended him and he came back and called witnesses to testify against me,” he recently. said Channel 5 News since he was just an “18 year old”.

“He almost sent me to jail … This is someone who ruined my life,” Barrow said.

Two law enforcement sources told The Post earlier this year that the shooting could be reinvestigated as part of a federal investigation into Combs, now 54.

Comb remains incarcerated in federal prison in Manhattan on charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution.

Federal agents searched his homes in Los Angeles and Miami in March, seizing hundreds of sex videos and a mountain of sex paraphernalia – including 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lube. The US Attorney’s Office alleged that the sex parties he hosted were not always consensual.

In addition, he faces a number of civil lawsuits from numerous alleged victims — including two from men who said they were minors, aged just 10 and 17, when they were gruesomely raped by the R&B star.

Combs has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges and has repeatedly denied wrongdoing.