Jennifer Lopez’s first ex-husband, Ojani Noa, shared details about his dramatic showdown with Sean “Diddy” Combs over his alleged affair with the singer.
“Everything was great and we were so in love,” the actor revealed in an interview with the US Sun.
“I was in charge of launching a nightclub in LA called The Conga Room, which was part-owned by [Lopez], while she went off to make her debut album — ‘On The 6’ — in New York and Miami,” he recalled.
“That was when Diddy was drafted in to help produce several tracks.”
Jennifer Lopez’s first ex-husband, Ojani Noa (seen above with his wife), recalled his showdown with Sean “Diddy” Combs over his alleged affair with the singer. WireImage
The actor said the “Selena” actress’s behavior changed when Comsb was brought in to work on he rdebut album. ojaninoa1/Instagram
Noa, 62, said the “Selena” actress and Combs “knew each other way before the media reported they did.”
“She started hanging out with Diddy more and more, and I started seeing her less and less,” he claimed. “Then the rumours started. I still had a lot of friends working in Miami hotels who would call to say they had seen them hanging out and leaving together.”
Noa said Lopez, 57, would tell him her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder was “just work” until a photo of the pop star with Combs, 56, surfaced of her sitting on his lap at a Miami-area hotel.
“We started to fight really badly as I knew she was cheating on me,” he alleged.
When Noa wasn’t hearing from his then-wife, he took a flight from Los Angeles to Miami and popped up at Lopez’s hotel unannounced. He said they had a “massive fight” and she told him that he could not randomly visit her.
Noa (seen above in 2022) said Lopez would deny her relationship with the Bad Boy Records founder until a photo surfaced of her sitting on his lap. Getty Images
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Noa then detailed a time when he confronted Combs, who showed up at Lopez’s assistant’s birthday party.
“It was the year she dumped him. We were still friends and we had decided to start over again,” the Cuban actor recalled, adding that Lopez deserved to be “forgiven once” for her past “mistakes.”
“She had tried to dump Diddy before and he had threatened her and her family,” Noa alleged.
“He turned up to her assistant’s birthday party in Los Angeles — which Jennifer had thrown for her — and everyone was shocked,” he added.
“I went over to him and told him to leave and he told me to back off. He asked me who I was, to which I replied, ‘F–k you’. I told him he had slept with my wife.”
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Noa said the “Hustlers” star got in between him and the “Act Bad” rapper and told Noa that Combs would leave the party — but he didn’t.
“I got upset with her and at the end of the night she got in his car and left,” the “Eye See Me” actor remembered.
Then a few days later, Noa said a “terrified” Lopez called him when Combs showed up at her LA residence and began to scream her name.
“She said she was scared and afraid, so I instantly left work and came over. When I got there, it was pitch black and I couldn’t see anyone, so he must have been hiding. As I drove in, he started shouting and telling her he knew I was inside,” he claimed.
“That’s when I fronted him up. Jennifer was on the balcony and told me not to, as she was worried. She told me he had guns but I told him that I would f–k him up,” Noa shared.
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“She said she was going to call the cops but a neighbor must have called them as they turned up and Diddy ran away.”
Noa claimed that Lopez told him Combs “could do bad things,” but the actor said he told the disgraced hip-hop star he was a “coward” to his face.
“That’s why he was always with bodyguards with guns because anyone could take him one on one,” Noa claimed.
Page Six has reached out to reps for Combs and Lopez for comment but did not immediately hear back.
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Noa and the “I’m Real” songstress were married from 1997 to 1998. He previously blamed Combs for their divorce.
Lopez went public with her romance with Combs in September 1999 by making their official debut as a couple at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Later that year, the Sean John clothing brand founder was involved in a high-profile New York nightclub shooting incident. Lopez was one of many arrested after cops found a stolen and loaded 9mm semiautomatic gun in the car she and Combs fled in.
The singer was held in a cell for more than 12 hours but never charged.
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Combs and Lopez split in 2001.
The “I’ll Be Missing You” rapper is currently serving a 50-month sentence after being convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
The “Enough” actress was also married three other times: to dancer Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003; to singer Marc Anthony from 2004 to 2014; and to actor Ben Affleck from 2022 to 2025.
Lopez and the “Vivir Mi Vida” crooner, 57, share 18-year-old twins Emme and Max.
