Resurfaced footage shows Wayne Rooney bidding $150,000 for a night out with Diddy – years before the latest wave of sex claims against the rapper.
The football star won David Beckham‘s World Cup charity auction in May 2006 to spend the weekend with Diddy in New York.
At the time, Diddy – aka Sean John Combs – insisted he would make his mark on the footballer, vowing Rooney would return a ‘changed man’.
‘After he comes to New York, we’ll probably be cousins. It’ll be a non-stop party with lots of sexy ladies,’ said the rapper.
The extraordinary footage starts with the music mogul climbing on stage uninvited to join Beckham, who was hosting the star-studded event on the grounds of his mansion in Hertfordshire.
Diddy says: ‘I don’t mean to interrupt you, but I’m in a giving mood […] and I would like to auction something off.
‘Being that I don’t spend a lot of time here, and I don’t really know the crowd, if you win you get your choice of one or the other. Choice A is a weekend at my house in the Hamptons, fully staffed, on the water, East Hampton, New York.’
He adds: ‘Number two is a studio session with me in New York, or London, I’ll produce a record for you and your kids. Or number three is a night out with Diddy, Saturday night in New York. And I promise you, your a** will wake up Wednesday, laying beside me.’
+9
Diddy – aka Sean John Combs – onstage with David Beckham at the footballer’s charity auction in 2006
+9
Wayne Rooney (pictured centre at the auction in 2006) won Diddy’s prize of a night out with him in New York for $150,000
+9
Diddy insisted he would make his mark on the footballer, vowing Rooney would return a ‘changed man’
+9
Sharon Osbourne pictured at the star-studded auction in 2006
+9
Diddy onstage with Beckham at the footballer’s charity auction in 2006
+9
The list of Sean ‘ Diddy ‘ Combs’ accomplices includes prominent executives and bankers, according to a lawyer representing alleged victims of the music mogul
+9
‘The Real White Party’ presented by Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs at the Combs’ East Hampton estate on September 2, 2007 in East Hampton, New York
After various A-List stars including Sharon Osbourne begin to bid on the offer, Rooney wins by settling on $150,000, on the condition he can bring along a friend.
Rooney’s wife Coleen reportedly stopped her husband from attending the night out in New York with Diddy, according to the rapper.
Diddy was arrested last month on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering, and transportation to engage in prostitution.
It is alleged that he hosted parties involving illegal drugs, underage girls, hidden cameras and sex workers.
The list of Diddy’s accomplices includes prominent executives and bankers, according to a lawyer representing alleged victims of the rapper.
Multiple lawsuits by 120 accusers will mention ‘household names’ as well as companies and individuals who were aware of and profited from Diddy’s alleged crimes, attorney Tony Buzbee said on Tuesday.
The legal filings seek to go after the banks, pharmaceutical companies and hotels that allegedly aided the mogul.
‘We will expose the enablers who enabled this conduct behind closed doors. We will pursue this matter no matter who the evidence implicates,’ Buzbee said in a press conference in Houston.
Timeline of moments leading to the arrest of star Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs
+9
Diddy, seen right in court, headed to jail on Tuesday to await trial in a federal sex trafficking case that accuses him of presiding over a sordid empire of sexual crimes
Buzbee added: ‘The day will come when we will name names other than Sean Combs, and there’s a lot of names. It’s a long list already,… The names will shock you.’
Buzbee’s co-counsel said the lawsuits will go after ‘any venue or venue owner who was aware of what was going on.’
The lawyers stated they plan to file lawsuits in several states over the next 30 days and pledged to reveal the names at a later date.
Buzbee confirmed that half the plaintiffs are male and that most of the alleged assaults took place in New York, California, Georgia and Florida. The complaints date back to 1991.
MailOnline has contacted a representative for Rooney for comment.
