Diddy‘s sons are in New York watching their father bear an indictment and courtroom docket proceedings … nonetheless his teenage twin daughters are hanging once more in California with a family pal.

Sources accustomed to the state of affairs inform TMZ … Diddy’s teen, twin girls D’Lila and Jessie are presently in Los Angeles beneath the care of their late mother Kim Porter’s biggest pal, Lala.

We’re instructed Lala has acted as a caregiver for the ladies for a quantity of years, though she is NOT a approved guardian.

TMZ broke the story … Kim was found lifeless inside her Toluca Lake residence in November 2018.

Our sources say the ladies are presently attending school in L.A. and Lala oversees their day-to-day schedules. We’re instructed Lala does her biggest to protect the ladies and maintain the pores and skin noise away … and she or he acts as a mother decide.

As we first reported … Diddy was arrested Monday in New York and indicted on intercourse trafficking, racketeering and kidnapping charges. He appeared in courtroom docket Tuesday and pled not accountable, nonetheless is being held with out bail.

Diddy’s three grownup sons, Quincy, Justin and Christian “King” Combs confirmed up on the federal courthouse in lower Manhattan to see him go sooner than a select for the first time.

King is the twins’ older brother, nonetheless the women are hanging once more in California … and our sources say they nonetheless help their father and are anticipating his launch.