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(NewsNation) — This week, the Metropolitan Museum and Anna Wintour announced that its Spring 2025 Gala will be “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The gala and ensuing exhibit will focus “on the history of the Black dandy and the way peacocking goes beyond aesthetics to empowerment,” The New York Times noted. A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour will be co-chairing the gala … and LeBron James will be the honorary chair.

It’s the last bit that” raised eyebrows in the New York social scene as James’ name has come up many times since Sean “Diddy” Combs was charged with racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transportation to engage in prostitution in September.

“Hip-hop cop” Derrick Parker even told me last week some of the names that may come up in the investigation, saying: “Jay-Z and Diddy were pretty close. … It’s not just Jay-Z. There are other more important people that are at these ‘Freak Off’ parties … everybody’s very scared right now.”

Other names Parker mentioned: LeBron James, Chris Brown and Kevin Hart (who was seen “interviewing” a woman in a bathtub at a Diddy party in the past and has since tried to distance himself from the Bad Boy mogul). 

LeBron James ‘Diddy party’ video resurfaces

A video has recently resurfaced of James saying, “Ain’t no party like a Diddy party”; however, the NBA superstar also has not been linked to any of Combs’ alleged crimes.

But it will be interesting to see how much more information comes out about the “Freak-Offs,” who is named and who is shamed … and who shows up.