MARRAKECH, Morocco - Rapper Sean "P Diddy" Combs and 300 guests have spent the weekend celebrating his 33rd birthday Moroccan-style, partying in a marble palace and shimmying with belly dancers. Guests, flown to Marrakech from New York and Paris, included Naomi Campbell, Ivana Trump and Gerard Depardieu. The party started on Friday night at Comptoir Paris-Marrakech, a chic French-Moroccan restaurant. About 30 Moroccan musicians, jugglers and belly dancers provided the atmosphere and traffic was blocked from the street outside to make room for half a dozen camels. At one point, Combs climbed on a table to dance with a belly dancer, said Marcel Chiche, the restaurant's owner. On Saturday night, the guests attended a private party at the home of actor and comic Jamel Debbouze. Sunday brought another fete at Palais Bahia, a marble place in Marrakech's historic medina.
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