Kim Porter, the model and actor who was in an on-again off-again relationship with Diddy for more than a decade, has died, it has been reported.
Porter, who had three children with the star, was found dead on Thursday at her home in the Toluca Lake neighbourhood of Los Angeles, according to TMZ.
Diddy’s representative confirmed Porter’s death to the website, and while a LAPD spokesperson contacted by The Independent wouldn’t confirm names, they said officers had responded to a call concerning a female in Toluca Lake at 11.38am.
Porter had suffered from flu-like symptoms and possibly pneumonia for several weeks, a source told TMZ. Porter’s cause of death remains unknown at this time.
Dispatch audio obtained by TMZ mentions a person in cardiac arrest.
Porter’s tumultuous relationship with Diddy – real name Sean Combs – began in 1994 and ended in 2007.
At the time, she said Diddy’s philandering was one the reasons for their breakup.
"As Black women we sacrifice," she told Essence magazine. "We stand by our man, through thick and thin, through whatever. But if you feel like, ‘Maybe I am getting the short end of the stick,' that’s when a change has to take place."
She said that in 2006, when she was pregnant with the couple’s twin daughters D’Lila Star and Jessie James, a friend informed her that Combs had recently fathered a baby with another woman.
