Kim Porter, Sean Combs
Kim Porter and Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs during 2003 VIBE Awards - Arrivals at Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California, United States. (Photo by Jean-Paul Aussenard/WireImage)

Kim Porter, who for more than a decade had an on-again, off-again relationship with Sean โ€œDiddyโ€ Combs and was the mother of three of his children, died Thursday. She was 47.

Authorities were called to the onetime model and actressโ€™ Los Angeles home on Thursday after a 911 call reported โ€œa patient in cardiac arrest,โ€ law enforcement sources told TMZ. A source also told the site that while Porter had been suffering from pneumonia for weeks, it was still unclear how she died.

โ€œSadly, I can confirm the passing of Kim Porter. I ask that you give the families privacy at this time,โ€ a representative for Porter told news outlets.

Porter and Diddy began dating in the mid-1990s and their relationship ended for good in 2007. Their children together are son Christian and twins girls Jessie James and Dโ€™Lila.

Porter also had a son, Quincy, from her relationship with R&B crooner Al B. Sure.

This correspondent is a guest contributor to The Washington Informer.

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