Diddy's Ex-Girlfriend, Kim Porter Dead at 47

EXCLUSIVE

Kim Porter, the model and actress Diddy for 13 years, was found dead Thursday at her LA area home … TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell us they got a call to Porter's Lake Toluca home around noon. Police are still on the scene right now.

According to the emergency dispatch of the call to the patient in cardiac arrest.

A source connected to Kim tells us how to have flu-like symptoms, and possibly pneumonia, for several weeks, but it's still unclear what exactly caused death. Another source says Kim had contacted her doctor just yesterday.

Diddy and Kim's relationship spanned more than a decade with several breakups and makeups. They started dating in 1994 and broke up, for the last time, in 2007.

Kim and Diddy have 3 children together – twin girls Jessie James and D'Lila were born in 2006, and she had their Christian Combs, in 1998. She also has a son, Quincy, from her previous relationship with Al B. Sure!.

The whole family was last together, in public, supporting Quincy at last month's premiere for his movie, "The Holiday Calendar."

Kim worked on both a model and an actress, and she made appearances on Diddy's show, "I Want to Work for Diddy."

Diddy's rep Cindi Berger tells us, "Sadly, I can confirm the passing of Kim Porter, I ask you to give the families privacy at this time."

Kim was 47.

RIP

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