He noted that despite allegations of criminal wrongdoing in lawsuits, including one brought by Diddy's ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura, prosecutors in California did not bring charges. 

Instead, the charges were brought in New York, which Deal said he believes is linked to a slate of resignations and allegations of corruption among Big Apple officials.

'People aren't going to tie this together.' 

The bodyguard implied that Diddy himself was victimized early in his career by other powerful music industry figures, and said he blames the ones who 'trained him and taught him the music business' for Diddy's alleged crimes. 

'Puff wasn't born a monster, he was made into a monster,' he said.  

'He was made into a monster because of what happened to him, and because of the things he had to do.

'To keep it frank, he was doing to other people what was done to him... that's a learned behaviour.' 

He claimed: 'They was heavy into the drugs, they was heavy into beating women, and doing things at that crazy stage that's going to make him think he can get away with the same things that they was getting away with back then.' 

'I'm not going to say allegedly because I saw that for my own self,' he added. 

Deal said Diddy's dramatic, high-profile arrest was 'karma' for a lot of the stuff that he did, including one allegation that he led rapper Biggie Smalls 'to his death.' 

'His karma was bound to catch up with him,' he continued. 

'So all the things that are going on right now, the learned behaviour that he got from these people who was not living spiritually correct... he went and transferred that and did that to people.' 

Deal concluded that Diddy's arrest would go down as 'one of the greatest tragedies' in hip-hop history, alongside the infamous deaths of Tupac and Biggie Smalls. 

'He brought it on himself,' Deal said. 

'He knew that he was wrong, and he knew that he learned something that wasn't right... he knew that if something is wrong you get help, and he didn't choose none of that.'