section_path: Personal life/White Parties
section_name: White Parties
paragraph_text: White Parties
  
  Combs held a series of parties known as White Parties between 1998 and 2009. The parties had a strict all-white dress code. According to a 2024 New York Times article, in the 2000s "few events held the cultural cachet". CNN wrote, "there was a time when one of the hottest summer tickets belonged to anyone who was able to score an invite to party" with Combs and that the parties "marked the peak of his cultural influence".
  
  Combs held a series of parties known as White Parties between 1998 and 2009. The parties had a strict all-white dress code. According to a 2024 New York Times article, in the 2000s "few events held the cultural cachet". CNN wrote, "there was a time when one of the hottest summer tickets belonged to anyone who was able to score an invite to party" with Combs and that the parties "marked the peak of his cultural influence".