Natania Ruben was lucky to be alive in 1999 after she was allegedly shot in the face by rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
Diddy who was accompanied by Jennifer Lopez his girlfriend at that time was involved in an altercation with a drug dealer, which led to a shootout. Ruben now 54 years old was hit.
But she never got justice as prosecutors failed to prove that it was a bullet from the gun fired by Diddy that hit her. But over the years Ruben had always prayed for justice to catch up with the billionaire rapper.
Reuben, told Daily Beast that she learned about the Bad Boy founder’s arrest from her daughter Nirvana. “She says, ‘Mommy, guess who’s in custody?’” she recalled. “I asked her if it was somebody locally in town that we know. And she’s like, ‘No, he’s bigger.’”
Reuben said that upon learning the former REVOLT chairman was arrested, she said she “screamed out to God, ‘Thank you, merciful father!’” This catharsis came from the traumatic experience she had in 1999. She was at the same party as Puff and J. Lo which ended in gunfire after the mogul got into an argument with a drug dealer. Reuben said that she saw the Bad Boy co-founder shoot her in the face.
“I watched him,” Natania Reuben told Daily Beast. “I saw him with my own eyes.” She was hit in the middle of her eyes with a 9mm bullet and felt like she got struck with “Paul Bunyan’s flaming-hot sledgehammer” when she got shot. “I called out to God and said, ‘Don’t take me. I’m not finished raising my kids, I have work to do,’” she said, referring to her two sons.
She described seeing him getting arrested over 20 years later as “one of the best days ever,” but acknowledged that he may not have been able to harm so many more people if he was convicted in the 1999 shooting trial. Now, he is facing racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges on top of rape and sexual assault lawsuits that were filed over the last almost year.
