Mad world of P Diddy's finances as he admits earning Sh15,000 a week Sean Combs' huge mansion in Georgia [Photo: Courtesy] Rapper and canny businessman Sean Combs says he first made a mint aged 12 - by doing the hustle. As a boy, Combs - aka P. Diddy - earned $1,000 a week from paper rounds. He then worked at a diner, a petrol station and even cleaned toilets. The 51-year-old says: “I was raised in Harlem and my father was killed when I was two. My mother had five jobs. I’m from the roots of hustle. I was a paperboy, the first entrepreneurial thing I did. I would reach out to the boys about to go to college. I asked if I could do their round and send them half the money. I was making $1,000 a week as I kept all the other rounds on. I was a busboy in a restaurant, I pumped gas at a gas station, I also had to keep the bathrooms clean. They are the worst but I was proud to make them clean and see people’s faces when they came out.”