Sean Diddy Combs and Jay-Z were seemingly very close friends for a long time as rapper’s former bodyguard revealed new details. The disgraced music mogul and Jay-Z had a new joint lawsuit filed against them which claims that the two rappers assaulted someone together. The Bad Boy Records founder’s bodyguard has now allegedly confirmed the accusation in a new interview. Diddy’s former bodyguard, Gene Deal, was asked about the relationship between the accused rappers, as he sat down for conversation with . Deal responded, "How close were Diddy and Jay-Z? They was close enough that they wasn't playing basketball, they wasn't playing baseball, they wasn't playing football, and they wasn't playing hockey or soccer for Diddy to come on stage and pat him on his a-- and then make a statement to people in the world that 'can't nobody call me Sean but Jay-Z.'" The bodyguard had been an employee of Bad Boy Records, founded by the t rapper. Deal went on to reveal that, "They were so close that they had matching white girls together, ’cause when they used to see each other, they used to say 'yo, how your skinny white girl doing,' he’d be like 'yo, how your skinny white girl doing?' I guess that’s a certain type of closeness." This comes after both the rappers have denied the allegations made against them in court. While Diddy is awaiting trial at Metropolitan Detention Centre, where he has been held since his arrest on September 16th.