Sean “Diddy” Combs announced Monday that he has changed his middle name from “John” to “Love,” and shared an image of his new driver’s license on Instagram to prove it.
“Look what I just got in the mail today… ✨⚡️,” he captioned the photo of the Florida ID. “IT’S OFFICIAL!!! WELCOME TO THE LOVE ERA.”
Combs first filed a petition in Los Angeles in 2019 to change his legal name from Sean John Combs to Sean Love Combs. As reported by Complex, this wasn’t the first time Diddy expressed interest in adding “love” to his name. Back in 2017, he said he wanted to change his stage name to Brother Love or just Love.
In 2017, he announced that he was changing his name to Brother Love but later said he was joking.
“Hey, what’s up, y’all? I have some very, very serious news,” he said in a beachside video accompanying the tweet. “I’ve been praying on this, and I decided I know it’s risky; it could come off as corny to some people, like, yo I decided to change my name again.”
But two days later, he said he had been kidding and that the moniker would just be one of his various alter egos.
Combs has been known as Sean Combs, Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy and Diddy, which is still his name on social media.
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