Lori Harvey, Sean Combs Dating After All? Model Reportedly Spotted in the Bad Boy CEO’s Maybach

The rumor that Sean “Diddy” Combs and Lori Harvey are a couple has picked back up. The chatter has been going on since March when they were spotted at a reggae event in Miami.

This time, gossip site Hypefresh reports that Harvey recently was seen coming out of Combs’ chauffeured Maybach and meeting him for lunch at Nobu in Southern California. But Combs arrived separately in a black SUV and ducked in the back way, apparently so he wouldn’t be photographed with the young model.

The 22-year-old Harvey — who’s Steve Harvey‘s stepdaughter — was wearing a striped top, baggy Levi’s jeans and heels for the lunch meeting, and paparazzi didn’t get any shots of Combs with her, so his plan to stay hidden seemed to work.

Undoubtedly, Harvey could be considered a total It girl for how much her name has been floating around the Internet and the number of famous men she’s been linked to.

Besides Combs, she was paired with Trey Songz, British Formula 1 racing champion Lewis Hamilton, as well as Future. Harvey was also linked to Combs’ son Justin Combs and immortalized in song lyrics by Meek Mill.

“I got Lori Harvey on my wish list / That’s the only thing I want for Christmas,” he rapped on the Drake-assisted song “Going Bad.” 

When the footage of Harvey and Combs at the reggae event surfaced, at least one person said they weren’t a couple and that Harvey was going to star in the music exec’s Ciroc commercials, which gave a flip side to the dating rumor.

Plus, Harvey herself addressed the chatter when people said she was engaged to Combs after seeing her at a Ciroc party in June with a big ring on.

“I’m not engaged,” she wrote last month on Instagram Stories. “Stop believing everything y’all read on a blog.”

Meanwhile, Combs and his girlfriend of a decade, Cassie, broke up in October 2018, and she’s having a baby with her new boyfriend Alex Fine.

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