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Message: [QUOTE="Whitey23, post: 294304, member: 216"] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000]Diddy, a.k.a. [URL='http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/sean-john-combs-PECLB004229.topic'][COLOR=#666666]Sean Combs[/COLOR][/URL], the musician-businessman formerly known as [URL='http://www.latimes.com/topic/entertainment/music/sean-john-combs-PECLB004229.topic'][COLOR=#666666]Puff Daddy[/COLOR][/URL] and P. Diddy, is a real daddy, and a proud one.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000]His son Justin Combs graduated from Iona prep school in New York state with what is said to be an A-minus average, and heads to [URL='http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-california-los-angeles-OREDU0000192268.topic'][COLOR=#666666]UCLA[/COLOR][/URL] with a $54,000 football [URL='http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/ucla-defends-athletic-scholarship-given-to-sean-diddy-combs-son.html'][COLOR=#2262cc]scholarship[/COLOR][/URL].[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000]That’s started the fuse on a public online debate as to whether young Mr. Combs should accept that money. His father is, according to Forbes, the richest man in the hip-hop world: a semi-billionaire music impresario and fashion mogul with a fortune hovering around $550 million.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000]You must wonder, does this scholarship -- deserved as it is -- also represent a part of a bidding war by UCLA to win a talented athlete who was being wooed by Virginia and Wyoming, among others, and also, not incidentally, win the loyalty of a rich father who could wind up donating to the school many times that $54,000 scholarship money?[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000][url]http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-justin-combs-ucla-scholarship-20120531,0,593080.story[/url][/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT] [/LEFT] [LEFT][SIZE=14px][COLOR=#000000]UCLA released a statement that scholarship money does not come from tax payer money. It comes from the Athletic Department.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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